Puja Datta
A proud first-generation Indian-American midwesterner, Puja is a union organizer with CMRJB Workers United. She believes strongly in the power of human connection in dismantling capitalism. She is driven by...
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Udit Thakur
Udit is a research associate with the Open Markets Institute. His research and writing focuses on a range of issues, including labor anti-monopoly, democratic process and institutions, corporate governance, and...
James Whelan
James Whelan is co-director of The Change Agency. His PhD developed strategies for activist education and training, which have been applied by hundreds of social and environmental justice groups in...
Angela Lang
Angela Lang was born and raised in the heart of Milwaukee and is currently serving as Executive Director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC) that works to intentionally uplift...
David Beckwith
David Beckwith is the current Scholar in Residence for the Clinton School of Public Service Center on Community Philanthropy. He is also the Principal Consultant for the Great Lakes Institute...
Cristina Lopez
Cristina Lopez is the Executive Director of The Adelante Movement. The Adelante Movement is a national nonprofit organization that supports Latina entrepreneurship and economic success and strengthens the role of Latinas...
Sam Luebke
Sam Luebke is the Organizing Director of AFSCME Maryland.
Jennifer Luff
Jennifer Luff is an associate professor of history at Durham University.
Kelley Robinson
Kelley Robinson is the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Robinson currently previously served as national organizing director for the Action Fund and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Robinson...
Mat Hanson
Matthew Hanson works in advocacy in Washington, DC, and is the former Director of the DC Working Families Party. He has also worked as a researcher and organizer on a...
Miya Yoshitani
Miya Yoshitani has been the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network since 2013. Starting at APEN as a youth organizer in the 1990’s, Miya has an extensive background...
Jennifer Flynn Walker
Jennifer joins CPD after serving for 10 years as a co-founder and Executive Director of CPD affiliate, VOCAL-NY. She was the director of Health GAP, a global AIDS advocacy organization,...
Shaunna Thomas
Shaunna Thomas is co-founder and Executive Director of UltraViolet. Shaunna has had a fifteen year career in progressive organizing, building progressive infrastructure projects and winning critical policy fights at the...
Ellen Ryan
Over a span of thirty years, Ellen Ryan has worked as a community organizer in New England, the upper midwest, and southern United States. She began organizing in 1973 as...