Claire Bergren
Template:TOCnestleft Claire Bergren is a Minneapolis-based union organizer with SEIU; birth doula; and book nerd. She has previous experience in social movement work fighting unjust foreclosures with Occupy Homes MN, as a core team member through the emergence of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, and with building coalitions among working-class neighborhood-based organizations in the Twin Cities. She is currently leading the organizing work at SEIU Local #284 by running contract campaign fights with public school support staff that aim to raise the expectations of what a member-led union can win in a post-Janus, right-to-work country.[1]
Facilitation Team
The Wildfire Project has a team of 17 experienced facilitators, all of whom are leaders in a wide range of movement sectors and issue areas. Many of these practitioner-facilitators emerged from the organizations we’ve partnered with, and now make up our Leadership Team – which is one way that Wildfire is led by its grassroots base. This team keeps us rooted in many different movement arenas, allowing us to cross-pollinate cutting edge innovation and insights from different social change efforts across the country. We are proud that our team is active in the movements they serve on the ground, and distilling these insights allows us to be uniquely multi-sectoral.
Akua Deirdre Smith, Andrew Smith, BJ Star, Catherine Salonek, Claire Bergren, Ileia J. Burgos, Jonel Edwards, Joshua Kahn Russell, Executive Director , Kirin Kanakkanatt, Lex Barlowe, Lu Aya Nephew, Michael Strom, Sachie Hayakawa, Sam Corbin, Sherika Shaw, Sofia Campos, Yotam Marom.