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Leading from the Inside Out Alumnae/i

2009

  • Ann Beeson, Executive Director, U.S. Programs, Open Society Institute (New York, NY)
  • Arif Mamdani, Executive Director, Progressive Technology Project (Minneapolis, MN)
  • Ben Wikler, Campaign Director, Avaaz.org (Cambridge, MA)
  • Biko Baker, Executive Director, League of Young Voters (Milwaukee, WI)
  • Bruce Nilles, Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club (Washington, DC)
  • Cindy Kang, Executive Director, Green Corps (San Francisco, CA)
  • Darlene Nipper, Deputy Executive Director, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (Washington, DC)
  • Doran Schrantz, Director, ISAIAH (Minneapolis, MN)
  • Ellen Friedman, Executive Director, Compton Foundation (Redwood City, CA)
  • Josh Hoyt, Director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (Chicago, IL)
  • Karen Narasaki, President, Asian American Justice Center (Washington, DC)
  • Lance Pierce, Director, Climate & Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists (Boston, MA)
  • Leslie Moody, Executive Director, The Partnership for Working Families (Washington, CO)
  • Maria del Rosario Rodriguez, Founding Director, Florida Immigrant Coalition (Miami, FL)
  • Mary Lassen, Managing Director, Center for Community Change (Washington, DC)
  • Mary Kay Henry, International President, SEIU (Washington, DC)
  • Natalie Foster, New Media Director, Democratic National Committee (Washington, DC)
  • Nita Chaudhary, National Campaigns & Organizing Director, MoveOn.org (Washington, DC)
  • Nsombi Lambright, Executive Director, ACLU of Mississippi (Jackson, MS)
  • Roger Vann, Senior Vice President, Field Operations & Membership, NAACP (Baltimore, MD)
  • Ryan Friedrichs, Executive Director, State Voices (Detroit, MI)
  • Scott Reed, Executive Director, PICO National Network (San Diego, CA)
  • Sonia Perez, Senior Vice President, Affiliate Member Services, National Council of La Raza (New York, NY)
  • Thomasina Williams, Program Officer, Ford Foundation (New York, NY)

2008

  • Leticia Alcantar, Executive Director, Akonadi Foundation (Oakland, CA)
  • Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director, National Day Labor Organizing Network (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington, DC)
  • Jeff Blodgett, Executive Director, Wellstone Action (St. Paul, MN)
  • Dan Cantor, Executive Director, Working Families Party (Brooklyn, NY)
  • Ana Garcia Ashley, Territory Director, Gamaliel Foundation (Chicago, IL)
  • George Goehl, Executive Director, National Training and Information Center (NTIC) (Chicago, IL)
  • Sarah Hodgdon, Director of Campaign Operations, Sierra Club (Washington, DC)
  • Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (Oakland, CA)
  • Derrick Johnson, State President, Mississippi NAACP (Jackson, MS)
  • Brian Kettenring, Florida Head Organizer, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) (Miami, FL)
  • Lisa Kung, Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights (Atlanta, GA)
  • Sharon J. Lettman, Executive Vice President of Leadership Programs and External Affairs, People for the American Way Foundation (Washington, DC)
  • Elissa McBride, Director of Education and Leadership Training, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, (AFSCME) (Washington, DC)
  • Katherine McFate, Program Officer, Ford Foundation (New York, NY)
  • Linda Meric, Executive Director, 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women (Denver, CO)
  • Sara Mersha, Executive Director, Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) (Providence, RI)
  • Cecilia Muñoz, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, White House (Washington, DC)
  • Gideon Rosenblatt, Executive Director, ONE/Northwest (Seattle, WA)
  • Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Co-Founder and Executive Director, MomsRising (Kirkland, WA)
  • Monica Russo, International Vice President & President of Florida SEIU Union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) (Miami Lakes, FL)
  • Saket Soni, Executive Director, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (New Orleans, LA)
  • Betsy Taylor, President of the Board and Founder, 1Sky Climate Change Coalition (Takoma Park, MD)
  • Phill Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, Black AIDS Institute (Los Angeles, CA)

2007

  • Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Center for Community Change (Washington, DC)
  • Majora Carter, Executive Director, Sustainable South Bronx (Bronx, NY)
  • Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director, Lambda Legal (New York, NY)
  • Peggy Clark, Managing Director, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, The Aspen Institute (Washington, DC)
  • Michelle Coffey, Director, Starry Night Fund, Tides Foundation (New York, NY)
  • Kevin Curtis, Vice President, National Environmental Trust (DC)
  • Sara Gould, President, Ms. Foundation for Women (New York, NY)
  • Marielena Hincapie, Deputy Director, National Immigration Law Center, (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Bill Lipton, Deputy Director, Working Families Party (Brooklyn, NY)
  • Genaro Lopez Rendon, Executive Director, Southwest Workers Union (San Antonio, TX)
  • Mary Beth Maxwell, Founder and Exec. Director, American Rights at Work (Washington, DC)
  • Sandra Mikush, Assistant Director, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (Winston‐Salem, NC)
  • Jorge Mursuli, Executive Director, Democracia (Miami Shores, FL)
  • Billy Parish, Coordinator, Energy Action Coalition (Flagstaff, AZ)
  • Kavita Ramdas, President and Chief Executive Ofc., Global Fund for Women (San Francisco, CA)
  • Katharine Redford, Co‐Founder and US Office Director, EarthRights International (Washington, DC)
  • Rene Redwood, CEO, Redwood Enterprise (Washington, DC)
  • Gibran Rivera, Senior Associate, Interaction Institute for Social Change (Cambridge, MA)
  • Justin Ruben, Organizing Director, MoveOn.org (Austin, TX)
  • Rhea Suh, Program Officer, Environment, David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, CA)
  • Jane Sung E. Bai, Executive Director, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (Bronx, NY)
  • Bill Vandenberg, Co‐Director, Colorado Progressive Coalition (Denver, CO)
  • Steve Williams, Executive Director, POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) (San Francisco, CA)
  • Billy Wimsatt, Executive Director, Education Fund, League of Young Voters (Brooklyn, NY)

2006

  • Sean Cahill, Policy Director, Gay Men's Health Crisis (New York, NY)
  • Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director, WITNESS (Brooklyn, NY)
  • Pamela Chiang, Field Organizer, Center For Community Change (Belgrade, MT)
  • Melissa Dann, Executive Director, Wallace Global Fund (Washington, DC)
  • Bob Fulkerson, Executive Director, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (Reno, NV)
  • Barry Gold, Marine Conservation Director, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (San Francisco, CA)
  • Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, National Office of Jobs With Justice (Washington, DC)
  • Greg Haegele, Deputy Conservation Director, The Sierra Club (Washington, DC)
  • Hal Hamilton, Executive Director, The Sustainability Institute (Hartland, VT)
  • Debra Harry, Executive Director, Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (Nixon, NV)
  • Kweli Kitwana, Deputy Director, Center for Progressive Leadership (Washington, DC)
  • May Louie, Rebuilding Communities Initiative (RCI) Project Director, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (Roxbury, MA)
  • Adrienne Maree Brown, Executive Director, The Ruckus Society (Oakland, CA)
  • Justin Maxson, President, Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (Berea, KY)
  • Peter Murray, President, Center for Progressive Leadership (Washington, DC)
  • Iara Peng, Executive Director, Young People for the American Way (New York, NY)
  • Drummond Pike, President, The Tides Foundation (San Francisco, CA)
  • Chellie Pingree, former Executive Director, Common Cause (Washington, DC)
  • Crystal Plati, former Executive Director, Choice USA (Washington, DC)
  • Judy Rebick, Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario)
  • Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Gloria Totten, Executive Director, The Progressive Majority (Washington, DC)

2005

  • Lisa Abbott, Deputy Director, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (Paint Lick, KT)
  • ShaKing Alston, Vice President, Council of Community Services of New York State (New York, NY)
  • Ben Brandzel, Advocacy Director, MoveOn.org (New York, NY)
  • Richard Burns, Executive Director, Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Community Center (New York, NY)
  • Sheila Davis, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (San Jose, CA)
  • Phaedra Ellis‐Lamkins, Executive Director, Working Partnerships USA (San Jose, CA)
  • Maggie Fox, consultant/former Executive Vice President, Sierra Club (Washington, DC/ Denver, CO)
  • Michael Gelobter, Executive Director, Climate Cooler (Oakland, CA)
  • Michael Guerrero, Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Joel Gurin, Executive Vice President, Consumers Union (New York, NY)
  • Brenda Hyde, Assistant Director, Southern Echo (Jackson, MS)
  • Denise Joines, Program Officer, Wilburforce Foundation (Seattle, WA)
  • Gihan Perera, Executive Director, Miami Workers Center (Miami, FL)
  • Nicole Rycroft, Executive Director, Markets Initiative (Toronto, Ontario)
  • Bryony Schwan, Founder, Womenʹs Voice for the Earth; WILD Women (Bozeman, MT)
  • Marty Teitel, President, Cedar Tree Foundation (Boston, MA)
  • David Tucker, Executive Director, Pachamama Alliance (San Francisco, CA)
  • Cathy Wilkinson, Executive Director, Canadian Boreal Initiative (Ottawa, Canada)

2004

  • Michelle Allen, Consultant, Fundraising 911 (Berkeley, CA)
  • Vivian Chang, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Environment Network (Oakland, CA)
  • Gary Cohen, Executive Director, Health Care Without Harm and The Environmental Health Fund (Berkeley, CA)
  • Norman Dean, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth (Washington, DC)
  • Scott Douglas, Executive Director, Greater Birmingham Ministries (Birmingham, AL)
  • Andrea Durbin, Campaign Director, Greenpeace, USA (Washington, DC)
  • Julian Griggs, Principal, Dovetail Consulting (Vancouver, BC)
  • Van Jones, Founder and Former Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights & Green for All (Oakland, CA)
  • Angel Kyodo Williams, Executive Director, Urban/PEACE Institute (Berkeley, CA)
  • Burt Lauderdale, Executive Director, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (London, KY)
  • Ann Leonard, Executive Director, Multinational Resource Center (Oakland, CA)
  • Idelisse Malave, former Executive Director, Tides Foundation (San Francisco, CA)
  • Wilma Montañez, Program Director, The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation (New York, NY)
  • Todd Paglia, Executive Director, ForestEthics (San Francisco, CA)
  • Eli Pariser, Executive Director, MoveOn.org (Portland, ME)
  • David Rosenn, Executive Director, Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps (New York, NY)
  • Susan Shaer, Executive Director, Women’s Action for New Directions (Arlington, MA)
  • Sabrina Smith, Organizing Director, SCOPE (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Lhadon Tethong, Executive Director, Students for a Free Tibet (New York, NY)
  • Roxana Tynan, Organizing Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Alan Van Capelle, Executive Director, Empire State Pride Agenda (New York, NY)

2003

  • Tzeporah Berman, Campaign Director, ForestEthics (San Francisco, CA)
  • Michael Brune, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network (San Francisco, CA)
  • Andre Carothers, Senior Fellow, Rockwood Leadership Institute (Berkeley, CA)
  • Jennifer Cobb, Program Director, Rockwood Leadership Institute (Berkeley, CA)
  • Jeff Debonis, Senior Associate, Training Resources for the Environmental Community (Hood River, OR)
  • Niaz Dorry, Executive Director, Clean Catch (Gloucester, MA)
  • Jodie Evans, Founder, CodePink (Berkeley, CA)
  • Simon Greer, Executive Director, Jewish Fund for Justice (New York, NY)
  • Dallas Gudgell, Assiniboine Tribe of Montana (Boise, ID)
  • Chris Hatch, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network (San Francisco, CA)
  • Jody Holmes, Executive Director, Rainforest Solutions Project (Smithers, British Columbia)
  • Karen Mahon, Executive Director, Hollyhock Leadership Institute (Vancouver, British Columbia)
  • Ng’ethe Maina, Founder and Executive Director, SCOPE/AGENDA (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Njoki Njehu, Executive Director, 50 Years Is Enough Network (Washington, DC)
  • Dyan Oldenburg, Executive Director, Training Resources for the Environmental Community (Vashon, WA)
  • John Sellers, Founder and Executive Director, Ruckus Society (Oakland, CA)
  • Aqeela Sherrills, Executive Director, Community Self‐Determination Institute (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Beth Solomon, Executive Director, Planet Vox (Beverley Hills, CA)
  • Merran Smith, British Columbia Program Campaign Director, ForestEthics (San Francisco, CA)
  • Alta Starr, Senior Program Officer, The Ford Foundation (New York, NY)