Trainers
Kim Abbott is Director of Organizing at Montana Human Rights Network.
Celia Alario is founder of the consulting practice, ‘PR for People and the Planet’.
Sunyata Altenor is Organizing Coordinator for Illinois Caucus of Adolescent Health.
Francisco “Pancho” Argüelles is co-founder of Colectivo Flatlander.
Marcy Bowers is Membership and Communications Coordinator at Poverty Action.
Doyle Canning is co-director at smartMeme.
Amy Casso is Policy Analyst with La Fe Policy Research and Education Center.
Carol Cheney was previously a Consultant and Program Manager for TACS.
Yee Won Chong is Development Director at Western States Center.
Jason Cooper is Program Director at Pushback Network.
Gary Delgado is a nationally recognized researcher, lecturer, and activist on issues of race and social justice.
Jill Fuglister is Co-Director of the Coalition for a Livable Future.
Bob Fulkerson is Executive Director and co-founder of PLAN.
Deb Furry is a partner in Tippens + Furry, LLC.
Tomás Garduño is Director of Mass Base Organizing for the Southwest Organizing Project.
Julielyn Gibbons is a well known online activist and blogger extraordinaire.
Jamee Greer is an organizer and lobbyist with the Montana Human Rights Network.
Nancy Haque is the Building Political Power Program Director at Western States Center.
Shahid Haque-Hausrath founded the Montana chapter of the Border Crossing Law Firm.
Monica Hernandez is the lead person on Highlander's Pueblos de Latinoamérica project.
Aubrey Harrison is Field Manager at Basic Rights Oregon/Basic Rights Education Fund (BRO/BREF).
Candice Haster got her social-justice-art-making start making giant papier-mache protest puppets in Missoula, Montana.
Cathy Howell is Assistant Director for Leadership Development in the Field Department of the national AFL-CIO.
Sarah Howell is a Trainer and Organizer at Western States Center.
Walidah Imarisha is a Trainer/Organizer at Western States Center.
Tammy Johnson is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Applied Research Center (ARC).
Cliff Jones is a Senior Associate at TACS.
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Terry Keleher is Director of the Midwest Office of the Applied Research Center.
Kalpana Krishnamurthy is the Gender Justice Program and RACE Program Director at Western States Center.
Jeannie LaFrance is the Director of Act for Action-Theater for All.
Jen Lleras is Organizing Director or Oregon Student Association.
Moof Mayeda is Senior Field Organizer for National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Heather Miller is the Program Coordinator for Potlatch Fund.
James Mumm is Director of Organizing at National People's Action.
Scot Nakagawa is an organizational development consultant with The Consortium for Change.
Suzanne Pharr was the director of the Highlander Center 1999-2004.
Kenya Pierce serves as Community Affairs Advisor to State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford.
Terrie Quinteros is the Executive Director of the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Tarso Luís Ramos is Executive Director of Political Research Associates.
Rosi Reyes is a strategic communications planning specialist for social change organizations.
Dr. Sylvia Rhue is Director of Religious Affairs with National Black Justice Coalition.
Dianne Riley is the Equity Agenda Coordinator at Coalition for a Livable Future.
Andy Robinson is an author, trainer, and former Portlander now living in Vermont.
Aimee Santos-Lyons is a Trainer and Field Organizer at Western States Center.
Deborah Scott is the Executive Director of Georgia Stand-Up.
Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont is Executive Director at Oakland Rising.
Tricia Tillman is the Administrator for the Oregon Office of Multicultural Health and Services.
Ken Toole is the vice-chairman of the Public Services Commission of Montana.
Melissa Unger is a political organizer at Service Employees International Union
Eric K. Ward is National Field Director of the Building Democracy Initiative of the Center for New Community.
Marcy Westerling founded the Rural Organizing Project (ROP).
Causten Wollerman is Lead Racial Justice Organizer at the Colorado Progressive Coalition.
