Radical Futures Lab
The Radical Futures Lab is a new place for the Radical Communicators Network to practice and test our research in collaboration with the social movement Left.
Radical Futures Lab is based on a participatory action research model, where community partners with lived expertise guide the questions we explore and our approach to answering them.
The Pilot
After months of researching and writing our 2026 digital research magazine, Rising Narratives for Radical Futures: Talking Across Difference for a Multiracial Democracy, RadComms knew the next phase needed to test the learnings from this study with trusted partners. Fortunately, as members of The Rising Majority, a coalition made up of more than 80 organizations working to cohere and build power for the Left, we have years of deep relationships with organizations doing on-the-ground work to connect across different worldviews.
This birthed the Radical Futures Lab, or RadLab, where RadComms members and Rising Majority member organizations experiment with narrative power building on the Left. In RadLab’s pilot experiment, RadComms partnered with nine organizations in Rising Majority to expand their reach with young men of color who have either disengaged politically or actively moved to the Right over the last few years. Those organizations include Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN), About Face, Dream Defenders, Equity and Transformation (EAT), ManForward, Black Men Build, United We Dream, and Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), and Rising Majority.
Results from the experiment will be ready in 2027. Sign up to our email list to stay up to date on the research!
Radical Futures Lab collaborates closely with RadComms members and Rising Majority member organizations, but we partner and share our learnings with our nonmember community, too.