Pushback Network
The Pushback Network was founded in 2005 and is a national collaboration of indigenous, grassroots organizations and networks committed to building bottom-up, state-based alliances that change both the composition and levels of participation of the electorate. They emphasize strategies designed to empower underrepresented constituencies: people of color, poor and working class communities, and young people.[1]
About
The Pushback Network has state alliances in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York and Nevada.[1]
Personnel
Staff
As at April 12, 2010, the following served on the Staff:[2]
- Peter Hardie, Executive Director, New York
- Jason Cooper, Program Director, New York
- Brigid Flaherty, Fundraising and Communications Coordinator, California
Steering Committee
As at April 12, 2010, the following served on the Steering Committee:[3]
- Chair: Robby Rodriguez, SouthWest Organizing Project, NM
- Vice Chair: Sondra Youdelman, Community Voices Heard, NY
- Secretary: Rudy Gonzalves, California Alliance, CA
- Treasurer: Leroy Johnson, Southern Echo, MS
- Hill Carmichael, Greater Birmingham Ministries, AL
- Scott Douglas, Greater Birmingham Ministries, AL
- Kimble Forrister, Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, AL
- Darnell Johnson, Kentucky Jobs with Justice, KY
- Burt Lauderdale, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, KY
- Mike Sayer, Southern Echo, MS
- Anthony Thigpenn, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, CA
- William Weahkee, Director, SAGE Council, NM
- Lisa Abbott, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, KY
- Bineshi Albert, SouthWest Organizing Project, SAGE NM
- Presdelane Harris, Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, AL
- Attica Scott, Kentucky Jobs with Justice, KY
- Henry Serrano, New York Jobs with Justice, NY
- Karla Zombro, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, CA