Marcy Westerling
Marcy Westerling founded the Rural Organizing Project (ROP).
Marcy Westerling has been a leader in organizing, educating, and mobilizing grassroots responses to violence, bigotry and injustice in rural communities for over twenty years. Marcy founded the Rural Organizing Project (ROP) in 1992 to develop the ongoing capacity of pro-democracy groups in over 60 rural and small town communities in Oregon. This network of human dignity groups, committed to a broad agenda of social change, is the first of its kind in the state of Oregon and has since become a national model. Marcy is on leave from the ROP as an Open Society Fellow.
