Political Education Chair & Co-Coordinator of the National School for Strategic Organizing. As a member of the senior leadership team, Lian oversees all political education work at the Strategy Center, including the National School for Strategic Organizing.  She is also an editor and writer in Strategy Center Publications Department an the editor of the Center's quarterly AhoraNow. Lian grew up in Los Angeles, was a founding member of the Berkeley/Oakland Women's Union in the 60s, worked 10 years organizing on the shop floor of factories and workplaces, graduate of UC Berkeley where she also received a Ph.D. in architecture, editor of California Architecture quarterly for five years, co-editor of Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Strategies and Social Practices, and author of Structures for Knowledge for Change: Architecture as Social Practice.