How do your choices impact your health… and your success at work? That is the question that guided the work we did to make a custom, online game with the Center for Worker Health at the University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Public Health. The Center for Worker Heath “is a research and education center established in 2016[…]
In September of 2020, in the middle of a pandemic and election year, we were approached by Planned Parenthood Votes to help them engage their “get out the vote” volunteers through a digital, online game. They had three main issues they had in mind when they came to us. First, phone-banking and text-banking volunteers will[…]
We at the TESA Collective are thrilled to release the fifth title in our suite of activist games: STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion. STRIKE! is a groundbreaking and beautifully-illustrated cooperative board game for 2 – 4 players about building worker power. TESA’s previous games have been played in over 30 countries by more than[…]
At the TESA Collective, we make customized games for organizations that want to engage their audiences in playful and powerful ways. In 2017, we were approached by The Nature Conservancy to do just that. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has advanced land and water conservation around the world for nearly 70 years. In New York state, TNC[…]
During the spring and summer of 2016, TESA worked with a the Center for Family Life (CFL), a Brooklyn based client, on a project to develop curriculum for the city of New York’s Small Business Services program (SBS). The main focus of the project was to develop new, interactive curriculum for the New Americans Workforce1 Training[…]
The War Resisters League (WRL) has been building the peace movement since 1923. Today, as one of the leading voices in the movement, they organize peace builders and offer on-the-ground tools to build alternatives to war. Developing Curriculum for WRL’s Tax Day Program and Anti-Tear Gas Campaign TESA worked with WRL to update, develop, and[…]
In 2014 and 2015, the International Rescue Committee and the California Center for Cooperative Development reached out to TESA to lead a series of workshops and trainings. Over these two years, organizers and educators from agencies across the country were brought together. The focus was on developing educational practices to empower refugee farmers to take[…]
TESA was brought on to develop a program in partnership with The Cooperative Fund of New England, The Boston Center for Community Ownership, and The National Community Reinvestment Coalition. This program’s purpose was to start an academy for launching worker-owned cooperatives inside of the Franklin County House of Corrections in Western Massachusetts. The overall end[…]