Americans for Financial Reform
Staff
Heather Booth – Executive Director
Lisa Donner – Deputy Director
Eileen Toback – Communications & Mobilization Director
Kimberly Miller – Policy Coordinator
Dana Chasin – Legislative and Policy Liaison
Leslie Kramerich – Legislative and Policy Liaison
Farid Ben Amor – Field Coordinator
Grace Garner – Chief Operating Officer
Sean Rutledge – Lead Organizer, Fly-In Days
Adam Birka-White – Legislation and Policy Coordinator, Fly-In Days
Houston Stokes – Intern
Web Team:
Sarah Byrnes, Americans for Fairness in Lending
Sally Brzozowski, Americans for Fairness in Lending Field Team (State Directors Only)
Arkansas: Neil Sealy – exdirect@arkansascomm.org
Colorado: Carolyn Siegel – caroly@siegelpa.com
Delaware: Greg Wilson – gregw571@gmail.com
Indiana: Ronetta Spalding – nettasimone@yahoo.com
Louisiana: Alex Morgan – alexmorgan.la@gmail.com
Massachusetts: Lizzi Weyant – eweyant@masspirg.org
Maine: Jesse Graham – jesse@mainepeoplesalliance.org
Maine: Sarah Standiford – sstandiford@mainewomen.org
Missouri: Jeff Ordower – ordower@gmail.com
Missouri: Kay Mills – kay@missouriprovote.org
Montana: Jessica Grennan – jkgrennan@gmail.com
Nebraska: Barry Rubin – rubin.barry@gmail.com
Nebraska: Jane Fleming Kleeb – eatingpolitics@gmail.com
North Dakota: Donald McFarland – mcfarland.donald@gmail.com
Nevada: Samantha Galing Gaddy – samantha@organizedkarma.com
Ohio: Brian Rothenberg – brian@progressohio.org
South Dakota: Steve Jarding – stevejarding@gmail.com
South Dakota: Chas Jewett – chasjewett@gmail.com
Tennessee: Dave Cooley – dcooley@cooleypublicstrategies.com
Virginia: Jenny Lawson – jennylawson1975@gmail.com Executive Committee
Heather Booth – Americans for Financial Reform Stephen Abrecht – Service Employees International Union Gary Kalman – U.S. PIRG Nancy Zirkin/Lisa Rice – Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/National Fair Housing Alliance Rob Johnson – Roosevelt Institute James Carr – National Community Reinvestment Coalition Steering Committee
Maureen Thompson – The Hastings Group
Stephen Abrecht – Service Employees International Union
David Arkush – Public Citizen
Heather Booth – Americans for Financial Reform
Janis Bowdler – National Council of La Raza
James Carr – National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Alan Charney – USAction
Nita Chaudhary – MoveOn.org Political Action
Richard Ferlauto – American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
George Goehl – National People’s Action/National Training and Information Center
Rob Johnson – Roosevelt Institute
Gary Kalman – U.S. PIRG
Robert Kuttner – Demos
Daniel Pedrotty – AFL-CIO
Travis Plunkett – Consumer Federation of America
Lisa Rice – National Fair Housing Alliance
Ryan Wilson – AARP
Nancy Zirkin – Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Task Forces
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