Alistair Stephenson is building new practices for the progressive movement, and has spent 9 years as a people operations and strategic communications professional. He is currently Chief of Staff at the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Alistair was born in Sydney, and is currently based in New York.

Arianna Genis is a visionary change agent with a track record of delivering expectation-defying political wins locally and nationally that advance equity and systemic change. For the last decade, she has led or supported candidate and issue campaigns that have built the political power of communities of color and working class communities. She has worked with movement organizations such as Mijente, re:power, and TakeAction Minnesota.

Austin Almaguer is a progressive pastor and community organizer in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. He leads and works with diverse, non-partisan, and board-base coalitions working together to build power and make real change on issues like affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and public transportation. His pastoral work focuses on helping people of faith discover how they can act on their deepest values in ways that build a better world for all.

Avery (they/them) grew up in rural southwest Ohio and currently lives and organizes in Cleveland, with time spent in the SF Bay Area in between. Their focus over the last 15 years has been on the criminal legal system, anti-policing and shared interest organizing in majority white communities, building multiracial coalitions for justice. Avery started organizing with SURJ in 2015 at the M4BL Convening and is their current movement home.

Cathy Kunkel is a researcher and organizer with more than a decade of experience contributing to environmental justice movements in Appalachia and Puerto Rico. She currently works with a coalition in Puerto Rico advocating for a renewable energy-based transformation of the island’s electrical system. Prior to moving to Puerto Rico, her experience included co-founding two grassroots, volunteer environmental and political organizations in West Virginia and running for Congress in 2020.

Cecilia Castro was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States at the age of 6. Shortly after graduating from the University of California Santa Barbara, she returned to the Central Valley California where she is the Deputy Director for the Dolores Huerta Foundation, a grassroots community based organization working towards empowering communities to advance for social justice.

Claudia serves as the States Organizing Director for United We Dream. Originally from Bolivia, she migrated to the United States as a result of political instability, and severe climate change. She began her organizing journey over a decade ago, fighting for in-state tuition for undocumented students in Maryland. Prior to joining United We Dream, Claudia worked on the grassroots implementation of the Affordable Care Act & education justice equity, and accessibility with immigrant communities.

Corey Taylor is an Assistant Director of Organizing Capacity at SEIU. Since 2001, Corey has been creating spaces that prioritize the leadership development of union members, builds discipline around challenging white supremacy culture, and strengthens relationships and collective sense of belonging within organizing community around shared values and purpose. Corey holds a Masters degree in sarcasm and competitiveness from the University of Baltimore City. He is a lover of food, family, football, financial literacy and Jesus!

Dulce Saavedra is a first-generation Mexican-American, born and raised in Santa Ana, California. She began organizing as a junior in high school for restorative justice and Not1More Deportation. Now, Dulce organizes with Resilience OC’s families to ensure OC cities invest in youth.

Ishraq is the Organizing Director at MPower Change leading electoral and issue based campaigns in the Muslim American community. He was formally trained in congregation-based organizing, neighborhood and electoral campaigning. Ishraq aims to organize marginalized communities through a Prophetic lens.

Born in the Bay Area, raised in California’s Central Valley, and calls home Atlanta, GA, Jennifer’s values are shaped by her mother, an immigrant and single parent. She has served as a nonprofit leader and consultant at the national, state, and local level on issue and electoral campaigns and capacity building, as well as a trainer and facilitator for thousands of candidates, elected officials, campaign managers, and community organizers for nearly 20 years. Jennifer is currently serving as the Political Director at Way to Win, a homebase for progressive donors and organizers seeking a strategic approach to political funding that wins elections, advances transformative policy, and builds lasting power in the states.

John Lee Brougher is a strategic planning and nonprofit organizational consultant and executive coach, with over a decade working in the advocacy and social change space. He led the $50 million 2020 election cycle program for NextGen America as its Managing Director, and previously worked with NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Wendy Davis for Governor, the successful reelection campaign of US Senator Martin Heinrich, and New Leaders Council.

Kendra Cochran, a West Philadelphia native, is passionate about creating change. Kendra refined her skills in various positions throughout the years, most notably as Campaign Manager for Deborah Canty for Judge, Field Director For Malcolm Kenyatta for House Representative (Primary), and now Owner of Fielding Your Dreams Outreach Consultants. Kendra’s goal in her current work is to AWAKEN the PEOPLE and empower them to become leaders through education and development of their individual gifts.

Lolan Buhain Sevilla, MPA (pronouns: they/them), is a cultural worker, organizer, and trainer who strives to root their work in community, study and practice. With roots in Southeast San Diego, Oakland, Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Northampton – they have organized with the communities they belong (BIPOC queer & trans folks, Filipina women & migrant workers, chronically-ill & disabled, survivors), and primarily within the gender-based violence and anti-imperialist movements.

Maria Ibarra Rodriguez is an undocumented immigrant born in Durango, Mexico, and raised in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Maria began organizing in 2011 at her local university, where she and other DREAMers advocated for access to higher education and immigration reform. Since then, she has been focused on leveraging the power of data and technology to advance social justice in the United States and abroad. She now leads the data and technology efforts at United We Dream.

Starting out as a member leader of The People’s Lobby in Chicago, Melissa has spent the last 10 years as a professional organizer. Her work has lived at the intersection of grassroots power building, issue campaigns and electoral organizing. Coming from a working class, multi-ethnic family, Melissa is deeply passionate about ending the mass incarceration of BIPOC communities and fighting for tax reform to fund thriving communities.

Nedia Morsy is the Organizing Director of Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ). Founded in late 2014, MRNJ has built a powerful grassroots movement of immigrant and working-class people, operating three organizing hubs that provide legal and support services, adult education and youth development programming and winning 11 pro-immigrant and pro-worker statewide policies. Nedia graduated from Amherst College and was a Coro Fellow in St. Louis, MO.

Onoyemi Williams is a community organizer from the great state of Alabama working to create a world where all people are seen as individuals deserving of unconditional love with respect, to live a life of work that improves the conditions of humanity in a positive manner.

Richard Morales is National Political Director at Faith in Action. He heads developing and implementing political and policy priorities for the national network focused on sustainable access to power for historically marginalized communities. Rich has over ten years of experience in the social justice movement directing grassroots campaigns around immigrant rights and stopping the detention and deportation of immigrant families. Rich holds a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law.

Stacy Suh is an organizer with more than a decade of experience, focused on immigration, criminalization, race, and gender. As the Program Director of Detention Watch Network, Stacy guides DWN’s strategic direction and programmatic work to end immigration detention. They are also a co-founder of Survived & Punished, which works to end criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Stanley Fritz is the New York State, Political and Campaigns Director for PPEF, and Citizen Action has been managing our Fair Elections campaign and our FREENewYork campaign for the past two years. He was previously on our communications staff where he managed our media outreach and materials, as well as some of our social media strategies. He brought a strong background in outreach and community organizing from his experience at NYPIRG, and strong communications skills and experience from his work at WEACT.

Vonne Martin hails from Long Beach Ca, and has been a movement leader for over 20 years. They are dedicated to transforming communities and systems as they work alongside campaign organizers & organizations fighting on issues from criminal to climate justice. Vonne is committed to both the rigorous work that comes with power-building with BIPOC folks across the nation AND the joy of just living their Black queer life in ATL.