Rockwood Leadership Institute

Rockwood Leadership Institute is based in Oakland California, and is closely affiliated with the Social Transformation Project, the Ford Foundation and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

History

2000 ROCKWOOD LEADERSHIP PROGRAM CREATED Along with a dedicated group of environmental activists, Robert Gass and Andre Carothers co-founded Rockwood Leadership Program from a kitchen table in Berkeley, CA.

2003 FIRST COHORT OF THE LEADING FROM THE INSIDE OUT NATIONAL YEARLONG Rockwood’s first cohort of the Leading From The Inside Out national yearlong fellowship included 20 leaders from environmental and social justice movements. Since then, the fellowship has grown, averaging 24 fellows per every year, and led to the creation of other nationally-focused yearlong programs, like the Cross-Movement Fellowship.

2005 ROCKWOOD LAUNCHES SECTOR-BASED FELLOWSHIPS Created in partnership with the Ford Foundation, the Fellowship in Media, Communications and Information Policy was Rockwood’s first sector-based program. Since then, we’ve offered fellowships in the areas of LGBTQ advocacy, human rights and national security reform, death penalty abolition, and many others.

2008 AKAYA WINDWOOD BECOMES PRESIDENT & CEO After several years as a trainer and Director of Programs, Akaya is named President & CEO. Under her leadership, the organization changes its name to Rockwood Leadership Institute.

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECT FOUNDED A strong partner to Rockwood, Social Transformation Project was founded by Robert Gass and Jodie Tonita to help leaders explore transformative ideas and practices, and apply them to their organizations and movements.

2015 15 YEARS & 5,000 ALUMS Rockwood’s 15th birthday was also a celebration of a huge milestone: our network grew to over 5,000 alums! Of those 5,000, over 50% are people of color, and over 60% are women.

2016 DARLENE NIPPER BECOMES CEO Having joined the staff the previous year as Chief Impact Officer, Darlene now partner-leads Rockwood with President Akaya Windwood.^[1]

From Akaya Windwood, 2015;

From an intrepid few, we are now over 5,000 alumni strong. 52% of us are people of color, women comprise 70%, and our alums lead all over the world. We work in small rural communities and huge global organizations; some are in one-person shops, and others are organizing thousands. We are civil rights leaders, community organizers, artists, unionists, dreamers, planners, and visionaries^[2]

Theory of Change

Social Transformation Project

Robert Gass and Jodie Tonita are co-founders of the Social Transformation Project, a "strong partner" of the Rockwood Leadership Institute.^[3],^[4]

Couch Conversations

In September 2018, the Rockwood Leadership Institute featured a podcast featuring Transgender Law Center’s Kris Hayashi and Darlene Nipper:^[5]

"This month’s Couch Conversations with Transgender Law Center’s Kris Hayashi and Darlene Nipper was all about partnership, purpose, and protest. Watch the video above for the full conversation, and mark your calendar for October 25 at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET when Akaya will be joined by Kierra Johnson of The National LGBTQ Task Force.

Alums in the News

In October 2018, the Rockwood Leadership Institute posted "Alums in the News:"^[6]

Liz Ogbu was a guest on TED Radio Hour
Nicole Boucher, Pramila Jayapal, Saru Jayaraman, Jennifer Epps-Addison, Alicia Garza, Andrea Mercado, Ai-jen Poo, and Linda Sarsour were all speakers at the first-ever She The People Summit.
Malkia Cyril was chosen to be a Wired Icon by Edward Snowden
Jennifer Epps-Addison wrote “I Was Arrested For Protesting Brett Kavanaugh — Here’s Why I’m Prepared To Do It Again” for Blavity
Julia Bacha was a guest on Amanpour And Company
Fatima Goss Graves, Alicia Garza, and Saru Jayaraman were panelists at the #MeTooPhilanthropy convening
Jennifer Lentfer wrote “Policy, Practice, and Poetry” for Missing In The Mission
Cristobel Alex was a guest on the podcast Lovett Or Leave It
Deepa Iyer wrote “A Perfect Storm in the Making for 17 Years: A Reflection and Call to Action” on Medium
Ali Muldrow shared her experiences at the Art of Leadership in a piece titled “My Inner Child And I Go To Rockwood Leadership Institute”
Aisha Nyandoro and Magnolia Mother’s Trust basic income project was featured on Business Insider and FastCompany
Silky Shah, Eddy Zheng, Alicia Garza, Cristina Jimenez, Rashad Robinson, Pablo Alvarado, Linda Sarsour, Ai-jen Poo, and Pramila Jayapal were all included on the Frederick Douglas 200
Lawrence Benito, Angelica Silva, and Javier Valdes were honored at the 2018 Change Champions Awards
Linda Sarsour & Jennifer Epps-Addison were among the protesters arrested on the first day of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings
Akaya Windwood is speaking at Conscious Company’s World Women’s Summit, January 28 – 30, 2019

Board members

Rockwood Leadership Institute board members, as of December 2017;^[7]

Staff

As of December 2017;^[8]

Akaya Windwood - President
Darlene Nipper - Chief Executive Officer
Julie Besaha - Chief Operating Officer
J. Tyson Casey - Senior Curriculum & Program Manager
Lucia Castenada Kimble - Program Manager
Virada Chatikul - Senior Program & Enrollment Manager
Melissa Estrada - Executive Assistant
Joi Foley - Senior Marketing & Communications Manager
Miriam Grant - Program Manager
Eileen Hazel - Senior Finance & Program Operations Manager
Chinue Igwe - Program Coordinator
Stacy Kono - Director of Programs & Practice
Amie Lam- Senior Program Coordinator
Franco Nguon - Administrative Coordinator
Sharon Price - Director of Strategic Initiatives
Haley Reimbold - Senior Resource Manager
Amanda Rodriguez - Operations Manager
Liz Telschow - Salesforce & Special Projects Manager
Teresa Trinh - Enrollment Coordinator
Lauren Veasey - Program Manager

Trainers

As of December 2017;^[9]

Rockwood JustFilms Fellowship

Rockwood is proud to announce the 2017 cohort of the Rockwood JustFilms Fellowship!

This fellowship brings together 12 leaders working at the intersection of storytelling, film, and social change to learn powerful skills that will shift their capacity for leadership and collaboration. This cohort represents a wide range of established leaders in the film and digital storytelling sectors including: organizational leaders, media impact producers, filmmakers, thought leaders, curators, archivists, and critics. Through two residential retreats, peer coaching sessions, and additional leadership support, they will develop stronger working partnerships with each other, and with leaders of other social movements.^[10]

Kimberly Bautista, Filmmaker & Project Lead, Justice for my Sister Collective
Lyric Cabral, Journalist/Filmmaker, Stories Seldom Seen Films
Leo Chiang, Producer/Director, Walking Iris Media & Co-Chair, New Day Films
Luisa Dantas, Independent Filmmaker, JoLu Productions
Loira Limbal, Vice President & Documentary Lab Director, Firelight Media
Elissa Moorhead, Partner, TNEG
Molly Murphy, Co-Director, Working Films
Michael Premo. Executive Producer, Storyline
Hannah Rosenzweig, Filmmaker & Producer, Intention Media Inc.
Andy Smith, CEO, Columbia Film Society
Nicole van Schaik, Deputy Director, BRITDOC Foundation
Yvonne Welbon, Senior Creative Consultant and Producer, Chicken & Egg Pictures

Fellowship for Techquity

Rockwood is proud to announce the 2017 inaugural cohort of the Fellowship for Techquity!

The purpose of this fellowship is to build the leadership capacity of organizations to put technology and equity at the center of their approach. The intention is to create a learning community to strategize about effective technology platforms for their work towards an increased understanding of emerging tech resources.

Glen Berman, Chief of Staff/Managing Director, SumOfUs
Augie Blancas, Marketing & Communications Director, Fresno Building Healthy Communities
Jane Booth-Tobin, Principal, Movement Technology, Wellstone Action
Risa Brown, National Data and Targeting Director, PICO National Network
Sandra Celedon, Executive Director, Fresno Building Healthy Communities
Marianne Chung, Senior Director Community Initiatives, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Brandi Collins, Senior Campaign Director, Color of Change
Mishara Davis, National VAN Administrator, State Voices
Courtney Eimerman-Wallace, Director of Technology, Color of Change
Ashley Fairbanks, Director of Narrative & Network Building, Voices for Racial Justice
Tina Habib, Director of Operations & Human Resources, Center for Popular Democracy
Susannah Hook-Rodgers | Chief of Campaigns Staff and Strategy, Courage Campaign''''Bold text'
Vina Kay, Executive Director, Voices for Racial Justice
Kimberly Longey, Chief Operating Officer, Free Press
Lucia Martínez, Digital Campaigner, Free Press
Vincent Martínez, Senior Software Engineer, SumOfUs
Tim Molina, Organizing Director, Courage Campaign
McCrae Parker, Deputy Director, Center for Media Justice
Yolanda Perkins, Data Manager/ Program Director, State Voices/Wisconsin Voices
Rabia Syed, Director of Technology and Systems, Center for Popular Democracy
AJ Titong, Communications Specialist, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Arianna Trujillo Wesler, Principal, Movement Technology, Wellstone Action
Turner Willman, Digital Manager, Center for Media Justice
Felicia Yoda, Information Systems Manager, PICO National Network^[11]

Returning Citizens Fellowship

Rockwood is proud to announce the 2017 cohort of the Returning Citizens Fellowship!

Through the generous support of the Agnes Varis Trust, Rockwood was able to launch the second year of this program to provide leadership development opportunities to formerly incarcerated, emerging leaders to transform the stigma of incarceration while upholding the dignity and humanity of all people, regardless of relationship to the criminal justice system.

Obie Anthony, Director, Exonerated Nation
Robert Archuleta, Program Supervisor, La Familia Counseling Service
Donald Barlow, Peer Support Specialist, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Cookie Bivens, Data Entry Specialist, Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project
Kimberli Courtney, Reentry Coordinator, Five Keys Charter School
David Cowan, Operations Manager, Prison University Project
William Edwards, County Clerk, Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Office
Jerry Elster, Community Connection Manager, Rubicon Programs
Cristian Franco, Program Assistant, MILPA: Motivating Individual Leadership for Public Advancement
Dani Johnson, Outreach Retention Specialist, Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
Ernest Kirkwood Driver, HealthRight360
Pat Mims, Impact Coach, Rubicon Programs
Danny Murillo, Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow, The Opportunity Institute
Brayan Pelayo | Youth Law Academy Program Coordinator, Centro Legal de la Raza
Sabrina Reid, Job Developer, America Works
Charles Tatum | Billing Specialist & Program Coordinator, Westside Community Mental Health
Shannon Wise, Housing & Financial Counselor, San Francisco Housing Development Corporation & Founding Director, Solutions for Women^[12]

Leadership Now: Ohio Fellowship!

Rockwood is proud to announce the 2017 inaugural cohort of the Leadership Now: Ohio Fellowship!

Rockwood has partnered with the Ohio Transformation Fund to offer an eight-month cross-sector fellowship program for 24 social change leaders in Ohio designed to create dramatic shifts in leaders’ capacity to engage their organizations and communities to build networks to drive statewide strategy. Participants will develop leadership practices within a diverse cohort that is committed to building long-term civic capacity, and to driving the vision of systematic change in Ohio.

Erika Anthony, Vice President of Government Relations and Strategy, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress
Myriesha Barber, Behavioral Specialist, Community Solidarity Response Network of Toledo
Misha Barnes, Executive Director, LEAD Ohio
Sarah Braun, Network Action Team Manager, Eastern Ohio Education Partnership
Mike Brickner, Senior Policy Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio
Judith Chavis, Executive Vice President/Public Policy & Special Projects, American Association of Service Coordinators
DaMareo Cooper, Executive Director, Ohio Organizing Collaborative
Erin Davies, Executive Director, Juvenile Justice Coalition
Deaudra Edgerson, Family Advocate, Headstart & Vice President, Raymond John Wean Emerging Leaders Alumni Association
Hannah Ferguson, Enrollment Specialist, The Colony Youngstown
Hannah Halbert, Researcher, Policy Matters Ohio
Bennyce Hamilton, Regional Director of Diversity & Multicultural Services, Miami University Regionals
Prentiss Haney, Executive Director, Ohio Student Association
Amanda Hoyt, State Campaign Director, Ohio Organizing Collaborative
Alana Jochum, Executive Director, Equality Ohio
Stephen Johnson Grove, Deputy Director for Policy, Ohio Justice & Policy Center
Jaime Miracle, Deputy Director, NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio
Kelly Novak, Director of Health Education and Outreach, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio
Debbie Phillips, Development Director, Rural Action
Khaled Salehi, State Director, America Votes – Ohio
Kimlee Sureemee, Manager of Policy & Development, Asian Services In Action, Inc.
Heather Taylor-Miesle, Executive Director, Ohio Environmental Council
Nicole Thomas, Director of Community Organizing, New Voices for Reproductive Justice
Antonia Webb, Ohio Political Director, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees^[13]

Lead Now: Pittsburgh

In 2018 Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. has launched a major new initiative to develop and cultivate the region’s ranks of transformational community leaders to help meet the social and economic opportunities and challenges arising from the region’s ongoing resurgence.

The program, known as Lead Now: Pittsburgh, will advance the leadership capacity of a diverse group nonprofit leaders in southwestern Pennsylvania who embody potential for even greater impact. Curated by Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. in partnership with the California-based Rockwood Leadership Institute, the program will engage participants in a yearlong fellowship designed to deepen their community impact and connect them with leaders facing similar challenges across the region and the country.

“Pittsburgh is at a critical stage in its development as a region of the future and as a community for all, and these high-stakes transformational times call for highly effective transformational leaders,” said Aradhna Oliphant, President and CEO with Leadership Pittsburgh. “Lead Now: Pittsburgh (LnP) will help equip a growing cadre of civic-sector leaders to become even more effective advocates for social change and equity at a time when those issues have never been more important.”

Funding for the initiative was provided with a $500,000 grant from The Heinz Endowments. “Our nonprofit leaders carry immense responsibility for the health and success of Pittsburgh and the region, yet they are often challenged in advancing their work due to limited resources, guidance, and recognition,” said Janet Sarbaugh, the Endowments’ Vice President for Creativity. “The Endowments is proud to support this investment in the future of our region.”

For more than 30 years, Leadership Pittsburgh has cultivated a graduate network of more than 2,400 civic leaders who work to maximize the potential of the region. Rockwood Leadership Institute has produced leadership programs for over 6,000 social change makers worldwide during its 17-year history.

The Lead Now: Pittsburgh concept was originally devised in Pittsburgh two years ago after the Endowments and several other area foundations identified the critical role of nonprofit sector leadership in Pittsburgh’s continued successful revitalization. The Endowments invited Leadership Pittsburgh to design a program that would fill the gap in advanced development opportunities for a new generation of established and emerging nonprofit leaders.

The 25 inaugural Lead Now Fellows and their affiliated organizations are:

2019 Rockwood California cohort

Jean-Huy Tran November 14 2019.

Last Friday was the conclusion of my leadership institute with Rockwood Leadership Institute. It was emotionally drained and powerful, as the journey has been transformative. Everyone in the activism and political world already know that I came into these circles not too long ago. A lot of my leadership style was pretty much by trial and errors, and often mimicking other leaders whom I admired. And to finally have some formal training, I am shaped into a better leader.

With Anna Gonzalez, Marissa Munzing, Rebecca Miranda, Amanda Cheyney, Jesus Reachingback Toouryouth, Patty Ramirez, Hatem Mohtaseb, Kirin Kumar, Daniel Silva, Palvinder Kaur, Tere Flores Onofre, Lex Aavillanueva, Ryan McClinton, Rosa Olascoaga Vidal, Jasmin Aleman, Katrina Simmons, Kula Koenig.

Lead Now: California!

In 2018 Rockwood Leadership Institute is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of Lead Now: California!

With the support and partnership of the California Endowment, and the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Lead Now: California was created in response to the urgent political moment facing our nation that is calling forth a new era of leadership, activism, and alignment among progressive leaders.

Lead Now: California brings together 24 leaders from across California representing issue areas of immigrant rights, Muslim rights, criminal justice reform, LGBTQ rights, workers’ rights, agriculture, economic justice, arts & culture, health, and education. It is a bold, intersectional initiative to dramatically shift the sustainability, effectiveness, and connection of communities across the state.

Tanuoma’aleu Ah You Founder, Project ALOFA
Zahra Billoo, Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area
Cynthia Buiza, Executive Director, California Immigrant Policy Center
Maria Calanche, Executive Director, Legacy LA
Monique Castro, Co-Founder, California Native Vote Project
Alicia Dixon, Executive Director, Marcus Foster Education Institute
Ashara Ekundayo, Founder & Curator, AE Creative
Caroline Farrell, Executive Director, Center for Race, Policy & The Environment
Eder Gaona-MacedoExecutive Director, Future Leaders of America
Isela Gracian, President, East LA Community Corporation
Lucia Lin, Director, Young Workers United
Christina Livingston, Executive Director, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
Ruth McFarlane, Director of Development & Community Engagement, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Teddy Ky-Nam Miller, Economic Equity Director, Greenlining Institute
Josie Mooney, National Organizing Director, People’s Action
Vattana Peong, Executive Director, The Cambodian Family Community Center
Claudia Perez, Executive Director, Resilience Orange County
Constance Slider Pierre, Director of Organizing & Community Engagement, Housing California
Alexandra Suh, Executive Director, Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance
Alexis Teodoro, Campaign Strategist, Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities
Rev. Dr. David Vasquez-Levy, President, Pacific School of Religion
Marvin K. White, ARTivist In Residence, Oakland Peace Center & Public Theologian in Residence, First Church Berkeley
Amy Wolfe, President and CEO, AgSafe
Anthony E. Wright, Executive Director, Health Access^[15]

National Leading From the Inside Out Alums

2025

A.C. Locklear, Interim Chief Executive Officer, National Indian Health Board
Ahmad Abuznaid, Executive Director, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
Amanda Alexander, Visiting Fellow, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy Center for Racial Justice
Anathea Chino, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Advance Native Political Leadership
Antoinette Miles, State Director, New Jersey Working Families Party
Arlene Martinez, Deputy Executive Director and Communications Director, Good Jobs First
Bihar Tolou, Director of Campaigns, Action Center on Race and the Economy
Bethany Maki, Executive Director, Progressive Multiplier
Celine Mizrahi, Principal, Civitas Public Affairs
Christina Livingston, Executive Director, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute
Cliff Albright, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Black Voters Matter Fund
Corrine Van Hook-Turner, Chief Executive Officer, People's Climate Innovation Center
Dawn Wells-Clyburn, Executive Director, People United for Sustainable Housing, Inc.
Dennis Quirin, Executive Director, Raikes Foundation
Dom Leon-Davis, Deputy Director of Program and Strategy, Kairos Fellowship
Fran Hutchins (Hutch), Executive Director, Equality Federation
Francisca Vigaud-Walsh, Director of Strategy and Advocacy, Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas
Jane Norman, Chief of Staff, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
Jumana Musa, Director, Fourth Amendment Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Kierra Sims-Drake, Development Director, Center for Third World Organizing
Lisa Sherman Luna, Executive Director, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
Liz Theoharis, Executive Director, Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice
Mariah Moore, Director of Policy and Programs, Transgender Law Center
Myaisha Hayes, Campaign Strategies Director, MediaJustice
Pardiss Kebriaei, Senior Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Portia Allen-Kyle, Managing Director, Color of Change
Santra Denis, Executive Director, Miami Workers Center
Silky Shah, Executive Director, Detention Watch Network
Stephen Miles, President, Win Without War
Steve Paul, Executive Director, One Pennsylvania
Xiomara Caro Diaz, Executive Director, María Fund
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Are

2024

Allyn Maxfield-Steele, Co-Executive Director, Highlander Research and Education Center
Analilia Mejia, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy
Andy Kang, National Director of Anti-Hate, The Asian American Foundation
Avery Bizzell, Managing Director, Center for Third World Organizing Hub
Cinthia Illan Vazquez, Executive Director, The Washington Bus
Dom Kelly, President and CEO, New Disabled South
Eric Paulk, Chief of Staff, ProGeorgia
Erica Clemmons Dean, Deputy Director, Family Values @ Work
Glynda Carr, President and CEO, Higher Heights Leadership Fund
Jaime Love, Director of Programs, People's Climate Innovation Center
Jamila Perritt, President & CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health
Jennifer Knox, National Director of Organizing & Tech Innovation, Working Families Party
Jennifer Rodriguez, Director of Political and Field Mobilization, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
Jeremie Greer, Co-Executive Directors, Liberation in a Generation
Jose Garcia, Program Director, Ford Foundation
Justine Lucas, Founder, Q15 Impact
Maria Jose Espinosa, Executive Director, Center for Democracy in the Americas
Marisa Bono, CEO, Every Texan
Marissa Guananja, Chief Programs Officer, Roosevelt Institute
Nadia Belkin, Founding Executive Director, Asian American Power Network
Nancy Okail, President and CEO, Center for International Policy
Nellie Sires, Executive Director, Everybody Votes Campaign
Sandra Tamari, Executive Director, Adalah Justice Project
Sara Moncada, CEO, The Cultural Conservancy
Shayna Strom, President and CEO, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Shelby Chestnut, Executive Director, Transgender Law Center
Geehyun Sussan Lee, Managing Director, United We Dream
Tawana Petty, Executive Director, Petty Propolis
Tefere Gebre, Chief Program Officer, Greenpeace USA
Teofilo Reyes, Chief Program Officer, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Traci Blackmon, Associate General Minister & Vice President, United Church of Christ.^[16]

2023

Alejandra Gomez, Executive Director, LUCHA
Arash Azizzada, Executive Director, Afghans for A Better Tomorrow
Bex Ahuja, Managing Director, Rockwood Leadership Institute
Christine Cordero, Co-Executive Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Corrine Sanchez, Executive Director, Tewa Women United
Danielle Alvarado, Executive Director, Fair Work Center & Working Washington
Dima Khalidi, Executive Director, Palestine Legal
Emmett Schelling, Executive Director, Transgender Education Network of Texas
Hannah Jane Sassaman, Executive Director, People's Tech Project
Jane Kim, California Director, Working Families Party
Jenn Stowe, Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Jocelyn Frye, President, National Partnership for Women and Families
Joey Mogul, Co-Founder of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials and partner at the People's Law Office
Jose Lopez, Co-Executive Director, Make the Road New York
Joseph Phelan, Cofounder and Executive Director, ReFrame
Julia Barnes, Chief Executive Officer, The Movement Cooperative
Julie Collier, Deputy Chief of Staff, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
Justine Lucas, Executive Director, Clara Lionel Foundation
Marion Gee, Co-Executive Director, Climate Justice Alliance
Nahal Zamani, Senior Vice President, State Innovation Exchange
Nicole Melaku, Executive Director, National Partnership for New Americans
Paromita Shah, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Just Futures Law
Priti Krishtel, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge
Rachel Gilmer, Co-Director, Dream Defenders
Shiloh Kantz, Executive Director, Oklahoma Policy Institute
Tatenda Musapatike, Founder & CEO, Voter Formation Project
Thenjiwe McHarris, Co-Executive, Blackbird
Varshini Prakash, Executive director, Sunrise Movement
Zelalem Adefris, Deputy CEO, Catalyst Miami

2021

Alejandra Ruiz, Executive Director, Youth Engagement Fund
Alvina Yeh, Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Amit Mistry, Deputy Executive Director, Alliance for Youth Organizing
Amol Sinha, Executive Director, ACLU of New Jersey
Avideh Moussavian, Director of Federal Advocacy, National Immigration Law Center
Celeste Faison, Campaigns Director,National Domestic Workers Alliance
Claudia Yoli Ferla, Executive Director, MOVE Texas
Ebony Martin, Co-Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
Jessica Byrd, Founder & Director, Three Point Strategies
Justin Myers, Executive Director, Blue Leadership Collaborative
Kate Davenport, Co-President, Eureka Recycling
Laleh Ispahani, Co-Director, US, Open Society Foundations
Laura Martin, Executive Director, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Lecia Brooks, Chief of Staff, Southern Poverty Law Center
Marbre Stahly-Butts, Executive Director, Law for Black Lives
Matt Traldi, Managing Director, Indivisible Project
Meg Wiehe, Deputy Executive Director, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
Michael-Ray Mathews, Deputy Director & Chief Faith Officer, Faith in Action
Mimi Marziani, President, Texas Civil Rights Project
Rahna Epting, Executive Director, MoveOn
Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Executive Director, People United for Sustainable Housing, Inc.
Roxana Norouzi, Executive Director, OneAmerica
Sara Haghdoosti, Deputy Director, Win Without War
Tamieka Atkins, Executive Director, ProGeorgia
Tatewin Means, Executive Director, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation
Taylor Isenberg, Executive Director, Economic Security Project
Terra Branson-Thomas, Secretary of the Nation & Commerce, Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Val Benavidez, Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network
Vivian Yi Huang, Co-Executive Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Yvette Simpson, CEO, Democracy for America^[17]

2020

Adrian Haro, Chief Executive Officer, The Workers Lab
Adrienne Evans, Executive Director, United Vision for Idaho
Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director, Community Voices Heard
Ben Beachy, Director, Living Economy Program, Sierra Club
Brandon McKoy, President, New Jersey Policy Perspective
Catherine Bracy, Founder and Executive Director, TechEquity Collaborative
Felicia Wong, President and CEO, The Roosevelt Institute
Harish Patel, Director, Economic Security for Illinois
Harlan Yu, Executive Director, Upturn
Jamila Headley, Chief of Staff, Center for Popular Democracy
Karundi Williams, Executive Director, re:power
Kassandra Frederique, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
K. Sabeel Rahman, President, Demos
Kris Hayashi, Executive Director, Transgender Law Center
LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder, Black Voters Matter Fund
Leticia Peguero, Vice President of Programs, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Lori Villarosa, Executive Director & Founder, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)
Mari Urbina, Chief of Staff/National Political Director, Indivisible
Max Rose, Executive Director, Sheriffs for Trusting Communities
Meena Jagannath, Director of Global Programs, Movement Law Lab
Neha Patel, Co-Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange
Nikki Thanos, Legal and Policy Director, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ)
Sudha Nandagopal, CEO, Social Venture Partners International
Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, North America Director, 350.org
Tara Houska, Founder, GINIW Collective
Tarana J. Burke, Executive Director, me too International
Wahleah Johns, Executive Director, Native Renewables^[18]

2019

Adrian Reyna Chavoya, Director of Strategy, United We Dream and United We Dream Action
Alexis Anderson-Reed, Executive Director, State Voices
Ash-Lee Henderson, Co-Executive Director, Highlander Research and Education Center
Becky Belcore, Co-Director, National Korean American Service and Education Consortium
Brigid Flaherty, Co-Director, Down Home North Carolina
Chinyere Tutashinda, Co-Director, The BlackOUT Collective
Cortney Tunis, Executive Director, Pantsuit Nation
Eric Ward, Executive Director, Western States Center
Francys Crevier, Executive Director, National Council of Urban Indian Health
Jessie Ulibarri, Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange
Josh Nussbaum, Founder & CEO, The Movement Cooperative
Kamal Essaheb, Deputy Director, National Immigration Law Center
Katherine Grainger, Partner, Civitas Public Affairs Group
Kat Calvin, Founder/Executive Director, Spread the Vote
Kendra R. Johnson, Executive Director, Equality NC
Lorella Praeli, Vice President, Community Change, and President, Community Change Action
Maegan Llerena, Director, Make the Road PA
Mark Crain, Mobile Innovation Director & Senior Strategist, MoveOn
Maurice Mitchell, National Director, Working Families Party
Monica Ramirez, Founder and President, Justice for Migrant Women
Purvi Shah, Executive Director, Movement Law Lab
Rebecca Vallas, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Sharon Alpert, President and CEO, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Sondra Youdelman, Campaigns Director, People's Action
Steven Renderos, Co-Director, MediaJustice
Tonya Allen, President and CEO, The Skillman Foundation
Vanessa Daniel, Executive Director, Groundswell Fund
Wendy Chun-Hoon, Co-Director, Family Values @ Work^[19]

2018

Craig Aaron, President and CEO, Free Press
Levi Allen, Secretary-Treasurer, United Mine Workers of America
Ashley Allison, Executive Vice President of Campaigns and Program, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Sarah Audelo, Executive Director, Alliance for Youth Action
Mackenzie Baris, Deputy Director, Jobs with Justice
Saqib Bhatti, Co-Executive Director, Action Center on Race and the Economy
Charlene Carruthers, National Director, Black Youth Project 100
Christine Chen, Executive Director, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote
Kathay Feng, Executive Director, California Common Cause and National Redistricting Director
Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, Executive Director, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
Arisha Hatch, Managing Director, Color of Change
Jonathan Jayes-Green, Director, UndocuBlack Network
Judith LeBlanc, Director, Native Organizers Alliance
Cayden Mak, Executive Director, 18 Million Rising
Andrea Marta, Executive Director, Faith In Action Fund
Greisa Martinez Rosas, Deputy Executive Director, United We Dream
Joanne N. Smith, Executive Director, Girls for Gender Equity
Suman Raghunathan, Executive Director, South Asian Americans Leading Together
Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Director, Kairos Fellowship
Sarah Shanley Hope, Executive Director, Solutions Project
Sekou Siby, Executive Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Pheng Thao, Executive Director, ManForward
Dr. Corey Wiggins, Executive Director, Mississippi NAACP^[20]

2017

Seema Agnani, Executive Director, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
Lydia Avila, Executive Director, Power Shift Network
Stephanie Cho, Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
Cindy Cohn, Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andrea Dehlendorf, Co-Executive Director, Organization United for Respect at Walmart
Paul Di Donato, President, Proteus Fund
Jennifer Epps-Addison, JD, Co-Executive Director and Network President, Center for Popular Democracy
Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials
Fatima Goss Graves, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)
Leah Greenberg, Co-Executive Director, Indivisible Project
Annie McKay, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kansas Action for Children
Anthony Newby, Executive Director, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change
Mary Le Nguyen, Executive Director, Washington Community Action Network
Jacqueline Patterson, MSW, MPH , Director, Environmental and Climate Justice, NAACP
Becky Rafter, Executive Director, Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions
Tarso Ramos, Executive Director, Political Research Associates
Nadia Roumani | Director, Effective Philanthropy Lab, Stanford University
Bishop Dwayne Royster, Political Director, PICO National Network
Maritza Silva-Farrell, Executive Director, ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York
Sara Steffens, Secretary-Treasurer, Communications Workers of America
Sherece West-Scantlebury, President and Chief Executive Officer, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation^[21]

2016

Gustavo Andrade, Executive Director, Mia – Movement of Immigrants in America
Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel, Washington Office, New York University School of Law Brennan Center for Justice
Cornell William Brooks, President and Chief Executive Officer, NAACP
Alex Busansky, President, Impact Justice
Taifa Butler, Executive Director, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
Keya Chatterjee, Executive Director, US Climate Action Network
Rebecca Cokley, Executive Director, National Council on Disability
Stosh Cotler, Chief Executive Officer, Bend the Arc
Keesha Gaskins, Program Director, Democratic Practice – United States, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Executive Director, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Amy Hanauer, Executive Director, Policy Matters Ohio
Karen Hobert Flynn, President, Common Cause
Solome Lemma, Director, Africans in the Diaspora, International Development Exchange
Jacquelyn Mahendra, Executive Director, Citizen Engagement Laboratory
Veronica Mendez Moore , Co-Director, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha
Amisha Patel, Executive Director, Grassroots Collaborative
Rebecca Pringle, Vice President, National Education Association
Alberto Retana, President and Chief Executive Officer, Community Coalition
Ahniwake Rose, Executive Director, National Indian Education Association
Russell Roybal, Deputy Executive Director, National LGBTQ Task Force
Umi Selah, Co-Director, The Dream Defenders
Alex Tom, Executive Director, Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco)
Dorian Warren | Board Chair/Strategic Advisor, Center for Community Change
Donnell White, Executive Director, NAACP Detroit
Teresa Younger, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Ms. Foundation for Women
Ken Zimmerman, Director of US Programs, Open Society Foundations

2015

Ana Maria Archila Gulay, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy
Deborah Axt, Co-Executive Director, Make The Road New York
Fred Azcarate, Executive Director, USAction
Sujatha Baliga, Vice President And Director, Restorative Justice Project, Impact Justice
Rini Banerjee, Executive Director, Foundation for a Just Society
Javier Benavidez, Executive Director, SouthWest Organizing Project
Ellen Buchman, Executive Vice President, Field And Communications, Leadership Conference On Civil And Human Rights
Nikki Fortunato Bas, Executive Director, Partnership For Working Families
Jesse Graham, Executive Director, Maine People’s Alliance
Sujatha Jesudason, Director, CoreAlign
Cristina Jimenez, Co-Founder & Managing Director, United We Dream Network
Kierra Johnson, Executive Director, Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity (URGE)
Dawn Laguens, Executive Vice President/Chief Experience Officer, Planned Parenthood Federation Of America
Esther Lopez, Executive Vice President, United Food And Commercial Workers International Union (Ufcw)
Aisha Moodie-Mills, President And Chief Executive Officer, Victory Fund And Institute
Collin O’mara, President & Chief Executive Officer, National Wildlife Federation
Shelley Poticha, Director Of Urban Solutions, Natural Resources Defense Council
Kenneth Rigmaiden, General President, International Union Of Painters And Allied Trades
Eric Rodriguez, Vice President, National Council of La Raza
David Segal, President & Chief Executive Officer, Demand Progress
Ian Simmons, President, Foundation For Civic Leadership
Michael Smith, Special Assistant To The President, My Brother’s Keeper, The White House: Office Of Cabinet Affairs And My Brother’s Keeper
Taren Stinebricker-Kauffman, Executive Director, Sumofus.Org
Michelle Tremillo, Deputy Director, Texas Organizing Project
Vien Truong, National Director, Green For All

2014

Amanda Ballantyne, National Director, The Main Street Alliance
Jeremy Bird, Founding Partner, 270 Strategies
May Boeve, Executive Director, 350.org
David Donnelly, Executive Director, Every Voice Public Campaign Action Fund
Sara El-Amine, Executive Director, Organizing for Action
Ginny Goldman, Executive Director, Texas Organizing Project
Arshad Hasan, Executive Director, ProgressNow
Taryn Higashi, Executive Director, Unbound Philanthropy
Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Norwood Jewell, Vice President, International Union, UAW
Annie Leonard, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
Vivek Malhotra, Director, Civil and Human Rights, Ford Foundation
Rev. Terrence L. Melvin, President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). Secretary-Treasurer, NY State AFL-CIO
Christyne Neff, International Vice President and Executive Assistant to the International President, UFCW International
Miles Rapoport, President, Common Cause
Rocio Saenz, Executive Vice President, SEIU
Ilya Sheyman, Executive Director, MoveOn.org
Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute
Rich Stoltz, Executive Director, OneAmerica
Nadia Tonova, Director, National Network for Arab American Communities, ACCESS
Javier Valdes, Co-Executive Director, Make The Road New York
Gloria Walton, President & CEO, AGENDA / SCOPE
Miriam Yeung, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

2013

Lindsey Allen, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Sulma Arias, Executive Director, Sunflower Community Action
Lawrence L. Benito, Chief Executive Officer, Illinois Coalition of Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR)
Stacy A. Bohlen, Executive Director, National Indian Health Board
Juan Cartagena, President & General Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Andrew Friedman, Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)
Ben Goldfarb, Executive Director, Wellstone Action
Steven W. Hawkins, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
Rachel LaForest, Executive Director, Right to the City Alliance
Valarie Long, Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Heather McGhee, Vice President for Policy and Outreach, Demos
Andrea Cristina Mercado, Campaign Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Amy Morris, Program Officer for Strong Local Economies, Surdna Foundation
Navin Nayak, Senior Vice President, Campaigns, League of Conservation Voters (LCV)
Deepak Pateriya, Chief of Staff, Center for Community Change
Will Pittz, Executive Director, Washington Community Action Network
Justine Sarver, Executive Director, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
Eveline Shen, Executive Director, Forward Together
Shaunna Thomas, Co-Executive Director, UltraViolet
Cristina Tzintzun, Executive Director, Workers Defense Project
Naomi A. Walker, Assistant to the President, AFSCME
Gordon Whitman, Deputy Director, PICO National Network
Dennis Williams, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW
Luna Yasui, Program Officer, Ford Foundation

2012

Andrew Gillum, Director, Youth Leadership Programs, People for the American Way
Cindy Estrada, Vice President, International Union, UAW
Cindy Wiesner, National Coordinator, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Cristobal Alex, Program Officer, Electoral Reform and Democratic Participation, Ford Foundation
Denise Collazo, Director of Development and Southeast Expansion, PICO Network
Ejim Dike, Executive Director, US Human Rights Network
Eva Millona, Executive Director, Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Farhana Khera, President & Executive Director, Muslim Advocates
Greg Speed, Executive Director, America Votes
Hector Sanchez, Executive Director, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Julien Ross, Executive Director, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
Kelley Weigel, Executive Director, Western States Center
Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Margie Alt, Executive Director, Environment America
Mary Anne Hitt, Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club
Masen Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law Center
Mellor Willie, former Executive Director, National American Indian Housing Council
Michael Green, Executive Director, Center for Environmental Health
Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice
Pamela Shifman, Director, Initiatives for Girls and Women, NoVo Foundation
Rashad Robinson, Executive Director, Color of Change
Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, MALDEF
Tuyet Le, Executive Director, Asian American Institute
Veda Shook, International President, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

2011

Carroll Muffett, President & CEO, Center for International Environmental Law
Dan McGrath, Executive Director, TakeAction Minnesota
Dana Kaplan, Executive Director, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
Denise Cardinal, Executive Director, ProgressNow and ProgressNow Education
Gustavo Torres, Executive Director, CASA de Maryland
Ian Inaba, Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director, Citizen Engagement Lab
Jacqueline Pata, Executive Director, National Congress of American Indians
Janet Murguia, President & CEO, National Council of La Raza
John Kim, Co-Director, Advancement Project
Josh Viertel, former President, Slow Food USA
Katherine Peck, Senior Vice President of Programs, Gill Foundation
Kimberly Freeman Brown, Executive Director, American Rights at Work
LeeAnn Hall, Executive Director, Alliance for a Just Society
Leroy Johnson, Co-Founder, Executive Director, Southern Echo, Inc.
Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU
Margaret Huang, Executive Director, Rights Working Group
Matthew Butler, CEO & President, Media Matters for America
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green for All
Ron Collins, Chief of Staff, Communications Workers of America
Tammy Bang Luu, Associate Director, The Labor/Community Strategy Center
Tomas Garduno, Co-Director, SouthWest Organizing Project
Vince Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
Vivien Labaton, former Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Wendy Fields-Jacobs, Executive Administrative Assistant to President King, International Union, UAW

2010

Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Al Davidoff, Chief of Staff, American Federation of Teachers
Ana Yanez Correa, Executive Director, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
Anita Earls, Executive Director, Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Arturo Vargas, Executive Director, NALEO Educational Fund
Becky Tarbotton, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network
Benjamin Jealous, Executive Director, NAACP
Dan Lashoff, Climate Center Director, NRDC
Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Erich Pica, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth
Ilyse Hogue, former Director of Political Advocacy and Communications, MoveOn.org
Jon Liss, Executive Director, Virginia New Majority
Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director, Advancement Project
Kirk Noden, Executive Director, Mahoning Valley Organizing Project
Linda Wood, Senior Director, Leadership & Grantmaking, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Patti Devlin, Federation Liaison to the General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America
Phil Radford, Executive Director, Greenpeace
Pramila Jayapal, Founder & Executive Director, One America With Justice For All
Raquiba LaBrie, Program Director, Open Society Foundations
Rinku Sen, Executive Director, Applied Research Center
Tracy Sturdivant, Executive Director, State Voices
Vanita Gupta, Deputy Legal Director, Director of Center for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union

2009

Ann Beeson, Senior Fellow, Art, Culture & Social Change Initiative
Arif Mamdani, Executive Director, Progressive Technology Project
Ben Wikler, Campaign Director, Avaaz.org
Biko Baker, Executive Director, League of Young Voters
Bruce Nilles, Deputy Conservation Director, Sierra Club
Cindy Kang, Executive Director, Green Corps
Darlene Nipper, Deputy Executive Director, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Doran Schrantz, Director, ISAIAH
Ellen Friedman, Executive Director, Compton Foundation, Inc.
Josh Hoyt, Director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Karen Narasaki, President, Asian American Justice Center
Lance Pierce , Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, Ceres
Leslie Moody, Executive Director, The Partnership for Working Families
Maria del Rosario Rodriguez, Founding Director, Florida Immigrant Coalition
Mary Lassen, Managing Director, Center for Community Change
Mary Kay Henry, President, Service Employees International Union
Natalie Foster, Executive Director, Rebuilding the Dream
Nita Chaudhary, National Campaigns & Organizing Director, MoveOn.org
Nsombi Lambright, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi
Roger Vann, Chief Operation Officer, NAACP
Ryan Friedrichs, former Executive Director, State Voices
Scott Reed, Executive Director, PICO National Network
Sonia M. Perez, Senior Vice President, Affiliate Member Services, National Council of La Raza
Thomasina Williams, former Program Officer, Ford Foundation

2008

Ana Garcia Ashley, Executive Director, Gamaliel Foundation
Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Betsy Taylor, Principal, Breatkthrough Strategies and Solutions
Brian Kettenring, Interim Director, Leadership Center for the Common Good
Cecilia Munoz, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
Dan Cantor, Executive Director, Working Families Party
Derrick Johnson, State President, Mississippi NAACP
Elissa McBride, Director of Education and Leadership Training, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, (AFSCME)
George Goehl, Executive Director, National Training and Information Center (NTIC)
Gideon Rosenblatt, former Executive Director, Groundwire
Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Jeff Blodgett, Executive Director, Wellstone Action
Katherine McFate, Executive Director, OMB Watch
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Co-Founder and Executive Director, MomsRising
Leticia Alcantar, former Executive Director, Akonadi Foundation
Linda Meric, Executive Director, 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women
Lisa Kung, former Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
Monica Russo, President, Florida Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director, National Day Labor Organizing Network
Phill Wilson, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Black AIDS Institute
Saket Soni, Director, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
Sara Mersha, Director of Grantmaking & Advocacy, Grassroots International
Sarah Hodgdon, Director of Conservation, Sierra Club
Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks, Executive Director & CEO, National Black Justice Coalition

2007

Bill Lipton, Founder & Deputy Director, Working Families Party
Bill Vandenberg, Director, Democracy and Power Fund, Open Society Foundations
Billy Parish, Co-Founder and President, Solar Mosaic
Billy Wimsatt, Senior Fellow, Movement Strategy Center
Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Center for Community Change
Genaro Lopez-Rendon, Executive Director, Southwest Workers Union
Gibran Rivera, Senior Associate, Interaction Institute for Social Change
Jane Sung E. Bai, Director of National Programs, Slow Food USA
Jorge Mursuli, President & CEO, Democracia
Justin Ruben, Executive Director, MoveOn.org
Katharine Redford, Co-Founder and US Office Director, EarthRights International
Kavita Ramdas, Senior Advisor, Global Fund for Women
Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director, Lambda Legal
Kevin Curtis, Program Director, The Alliance for Climate Protection
Majora Carter, Founder & Principal, Majora Carter Group, LLC
Marielena Hincapie, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center
Mary Beth Maxwell, Special Advisor to Secretary Of Labor, US Department of Labor
Michelle Coffey, Director, Lambent Foundation
Peggy Clark, Managing Director, Aspen Global Health & Development, The Aspen Institute
Rene Redwood, CEO, Redwood Enterprise
Rhea Suh, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Budget and Management, US Department of the Interior
Sandra Mikush, Deputy Director, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
Sara Gould, Atlantic Senior Fellow, The Foundation Center
Steve Williams, Executive Director, POWER

2006

Adrienne Maree Brown, former Executive Director, The Ruckus Society
Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Barry Gold, Marine Conservation Program Director, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Bob Fulkerson, State Director, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Chellie Pingree, Congressperson from Maine
Crystal Plati, Executive Director, 21st Century Democrats
Debra Harry, Executive Director, Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
Drummond Pike, Founder and Former CEO, The Tides Foundation
Gillian Caldwell, former Executive Director, WITNESS and 1Sky
Gloria Totten, Executive Director, Progressive Majority
Greg Haegele, former Deputy Conservation Director, Sierra Club (deceased 2010)
Hal Hamilton, Co-Director, Sustainable Food Lab
Iara Peng, former Executive Director, Young People for the American Way
Judy Rebick, former Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University
Justin Maxson, President, Mountain Association for Community Economic Development
Kweli Kitwana, Vice President, Progressive Majority
May Louie, Director of Leadership and Capacity Building, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Melissa Dann, former Executive Director, Wallace Global Fund
Pamela Chiang, Director of Organizational Leadership, Center for Community Change
Peter Murray, President, Center for Progressive Leadership
Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, National Office of Jobs with Justice
Sean Cahill, Managing Director, Public Policy, Research and Community Health, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (New York, NY)

2005

Ben Brandzel, Director of International Programs/Director of Incubation & Strategic Campaigns, Citizen Engagement Labs
Brenda Hyde, Assistant Director, Southern Echo
Bryony Schwann, Executive Director, Biomimicry Institute
Cathy Wilkinson, Vice President of the Board, Boreal Songbird Initiative
David Tucker, Executive Director, Pachamama Alliance
Denise Joines, Program Officer, Wilburforce Foundation
Gihan Perera, Executive Director, Miami Workers Center
Joel Gurin, Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
Lisa Abbott, Director of Organizing and Leadership Development, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Maggie Fox, President & CEO, Alliance for Climate Protection
Marty Teitel, Executive Director, Cedar Tree Foundation
Michael Gelobter, Founder & Chairman, Climate Cooler
Michael Guerrero, Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Nicole Rycroft, Executive Director and Founder, Canopy Planet
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green for All
Richard Burns, Chief Operating Officer, Arcus Foundation
ShaKing Alston, Executive Director, The New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
Sheila Davis, Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

2004

Alan Van Capelle, Deputy Comptroller for Public Affairs, Office of the Comptroller City of New York
Andrea Durbin, Executive Director, Oregon Environmental Council
Angel Kyodo Williams, Founder, Center for Transformative Change
Ann Leonard, Director, The Story of Stuff Project
Burt Lauderdale, Executive Director, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Rabbi David Rosen, Chief Operating Officer, New Israel Fund
Eli Pariser, Board President, MoveOn.org
Gary Cohen, Executive Director, Environmental Health Fund
Idelisse Malave, former Executive Director, Tides Foundation
Julian Griggs, Principal, Dovetail Consulting
Lhadon Tethong, Director, Tibet Action Institute
Michelle Allen, Founder & Executive Director, Fundraising 911
Norman Dean, former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth
Roxana Tynan, Deputy Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Sabrina Smith, Strategic Communications, SCOPE
Scott Douglas, Executive Director, Greater Birmingham Ministries
Susan Shaer, Executive Director, Women’s Action for New Directions
Todd Paglia, Executive Director, ForestEthics
Van Jones, Founder and Former Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Green for All
Vivian Chang, former Director of State and Local Initiatives, Green for All
Wilma Montanez, Program Officer for Reproductive Rights, The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

2003

Alta Starr, Program Officer, The Ford Foundation
Andre Carothers, former Executive Director, Rockwood Leadership Institute
Aqeela Sherrills, CEO, Center for Transformative Change
Beth Solomon, Founder & Publisher, The Georgetown Dish
Chris Hatch, former Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network
Dallas Gudgell, Assiniboine Tribe of Montana
Dyan Oldenburg, Executive Director, Training Resources for the Environmental Community
Jeff Debonis, Senior Associate, Training Resources for the Environmental Community
Jennifer Cobb, Vice President of Marketing and Development, World Affairs Council of Northern California
Jodie Evans, Co-Founder and Executive Director, CodePink
Jody Holmes, Science Director, Rainforest Solutions Project
John Sellers, Writer & Producer, AGIT-POP Communications
Karen Mahon, Director of Client Partnerships, Public Outreach
Merran Smith, Director, Tides Canada Energy Initiative, Tides Canada
Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club
Ng'ethe Maina , Founder and Executive Director, Social Justice Leadership
Niaz Dorry, Coordinating Director, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Njoki Njehu, former Executive Director, 50 Years Is Enough Network
Simon Greer, President & CEO, Jewish Fund for Justice
Tzeporah Berman, International Climate and Energy Co-Director, Greenpeace^[22]

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