Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed is a writer, political organizer and recent graduate student in Los Angeles. She has been registering youth voters for the past ten years, since her undergraduate days at the University of Southern California.
Marcia Avner is Public Policy Director with the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. Her work includes advocacy and civic engagement training and education as well as lobbying on election reform and other issues that are important to nonprofits and the people they serve.
Born in Jalisco, Mexico, Adriana Barboza grew up on the south side of Chicago. She is a 2005 graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she received her bachelor's degree in legal studies with minors in women's studies and Chicano studies.
Seiji Carpenter was most recently involved with organizing with the League of Young Voters in San Francisco and giving trainings in Nevada and Colorado during the 2004 general election.
Victoria D. Cepeida-Mojarro is currently the USAS (United Students Against Sweatshops) Development Coordinator. She began working for USAS in December of 2006.
Alyse Erman is a graduate of the University of Michigan Residential College, where she studied social science with a focus on comparative religion and culture.
Ben Goldfarb is a seasoned campaign worker and community organizer, and former campaign manager for Minnesota US Senator Amy Klobuchar (2006), the first woman elected to the Senate in the state's history.
Ryan Greenwood has 10 years of community, political, and labor organizing experience. Currently he serves as the Political Director of TakeAction Minnesota.
Anne Johnson is a Senior Fundraiser for the National Education Association in Washington, D.C. Anne served as the first director of Campus Camp Wellstone and also helped organize Wellstone Action's national members around progressive issues.
Campus Camp Wellstone/ Native American Leadership Program trainer
Kevin is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and a student at Oglala Lakota College. He is president of student senate and a member of the board of trustees for his college.
Suzanne is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center. She has a background in international project development and management, communications, domestic violence advocacy, and fundraising.
The injustice Steve and Donna faced in the justice system inspired Donna to
make a commitment to others who may find themselves adrift in a system that
protects the rights of the convicted, rather then the innocent or deceased.
Bill Lofy is a communications strategist and trainer based in northern Vermont currently serving as deputy political director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
She works primarily in the District of Columbia and Maryland and is responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive reform strategy to this country's failed ‘War on Drugs.'
He is currently a junior high math teacher in St. Paul, MN. Brian has been involved in teaching, organizing and working in grass roots movements since his time spent at Cornell. He has primarily focused on education and has worked with students from the elementary level through college.
Karen Monahan was born in Tehran, Iran. Karen Monahan is a staff member at Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota (EJAM), an organization that addresses environmental and health issues affecting African American and urban core communities.
JenniferPae is Project Director for Majority for Justice in San Francisco, CA.She currently works with college students across the state in training, advocacy, and organizing issue and electoral campaigns to build real progressive change.
This Bay Area native’s passion for student organizing started at UC Santa Cruz, where Jessica served as Student Union Assembly President for two terms.
Susan Savage is currently a Regional Political Organizer for the California Teachers Association, responsible for working with local associations on school board, school bond, and local legislative races in California's conservative Central Valley.
Maria Schirmer is from Madison, WI and recently graduated from Macalester College in May 2008 with a degree in American Studies and a minor in History.As a life-long advocate for justice, she has worked on numerous youth activism campaigns.
While a student at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Bill was involved in student organizing on both the campus and statewide levels around higher education access, economic justice, and voting.
Director, Sheila Wellstone Institute / Senior Trainer
Lonna Stevens leads the organization's Sheila Wellstone Institute, which continues Sheila Wellstone's commitment to building power and visibility for the domestic violence movement, and also helps coordinate the organization's new Native American Leadership Program.
Camp Wellstone/ Advanced Campaign Management School Senior Trainer
Sujata is a campaign and communications professional with 16 years of both political and issue-based campaign management, strategic communications, cause-related and corporate marketing, research, training, and event management experience.
Mattie Weiss is a long-time youth movement organizer, writer, and leader. She is a 2001 graduate of Swarthmore College, where she studied political science and organized students and staff around issues of global economic justice, local race politics, and a campus-based living wage campaign.
Brandon White is a Community Organizer, Activist and Author. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Brandon currently serves as the Summit/Issues Director for Michigan Prospect and Michigan Voice.
Calvin Williams is the Fellowship Coordinator at Young People For (People For the American Way Foundation). Calvin holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from LaGrange College, where he was a student government programming board member, Hilltop News contributor, and campus panel organizer.
At Wellstone Action, Elana has managed communication and mobilization
of our members and alumni, including coordination of two national issue
campaigns and efforts to connect our 18,000 training alumni with the
progressive movement.
