JASMIN BARKER is the Coordinator of a youth organization, the Third Eye Movement. The Third Eye Movement works against police misconduct and brutality in San Francisco. The group uses know-your-rights trainings, cultural events and community organizing to fight police misconduct. Jasmin has facilitated over fifty know-your-rights trainings and has trained others to become facilitators.

DAVE BECKWITH is a Field Consultant for the Washington DC-based Center for Community Change. He has worked as a community organizer, trainer and consultant to community groups for more than twenty years and was the founding Director of the New England Training Center for Community Organizers in Providence, RI.

ED BENDER works for both the Western States Center and the National Institute for Money in State Politics in Helena, Montana. He has been investigating and reporting on campaign expenditure data in the West and nationally for the past eight years.

DANA BROWN is Co-Director for the Community Alliance of Tenants, the only renters’ organization in Oregon. She has been an organizer on low-income people’s issues for over a decade, including welfare rights, disability benefits and homelessness. She is also a United Methodist minister.

PAUL BROWN is southern Nevada Coordinator for the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), and the lead organizer on Money in Politics issues for this statewide coalition. He has been active in Nevada politics for the last seven years.

FRANCIS CALPOTURA is co-Director of the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO). He has over 15 years experience in training and organizing. Francis has extensive experience in starting and maintaining organizations and does consulting around campaign strategies and tactics.

ANN CATON is a 26 year old Latin of Peruvian descent. She is the Administrative Coordinator for YouthAction, an organization dedicated to strengthening the quality and quantity of youth organizing across the country. Before joining YouthAction, Ann did media advocacy and capacity-building work at the Advocacy Institute in Washington, DC.

DIANA COURVANT is the founder of the Survivor Project. She has developed a training program aimed to enable domestic violence shelters to serve trans and intersex survivors, which she has presented at shelters from Oregon to Ohio. Diana also speaks and writes extensively on issues of disability, sexuality and activism. In her spare time she writes smut, breathes fire and creates revolution.

HUNTER CUTTING is co-director of We Interrupt This Message, a media training organization specializing in challenging distorted news coverage and media stereotypes. Interrupt is known for developing the winning media strategy to defeat the anti-immigrant Sierra Club initiative in 1998.

SANDRA DAVIS works with the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO). She has over 10 years experience working as an organizer and trainer. She was the founder of CTWO’s organizing project in Portland, OR called Sisters in Portland Impacting Real Issues Together (SPIRIT) and worked as the Lead Organizer there for 3 years. She now works in CTWO’s central office in Oakland, CA.

WULA DAWSON is a sex worker/organizer and she has 22 years experience being a woman of color. She has been working in the field of domestic violence since she was 15.

LIBERO DELLAPIANA is a Senior Research Associate at the Applied Research Center and coordinates media relations for the ERASE (Expose Racism and Advance School Excellence) Initiative. He was the former editor of RaceFile and won the '97 Bannerman Fellowship for Young Organizers of Color.

TRANG DUONG works for the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association and has 29 years experience as a woman of color. She organized Take Back the Night for several years and is active in Alaskans for Civil Rights, a PAC formed in response to defeat Ballot Measure 2 that passed in November 1998. Similar to the one in Hawaii, this measure bans gay marriage in the state constitution.

NERISSA EDIZA is Girlfriend's magazine Girlfriend of the Month for April 1999 and has a reputation for getting things done. Sliding smoothly between Lesbian Avenger direct action and Basic Rights Oregon's lobbying efforts, she is an organizer wherever she goes. Combining fun with social change, her conferences include dancing and her spin-the-bottle parties include strategizing for overthrowing theocracy.

JOY ENOMOTO is a Program Associate with Just Economics, a consortium of women organizers and activists from around the country who provide economic analysis and economic education tools for labor and community organizing. She is also an aide to Oakland City Councilwoman Nancy Nadel. Joy is a writer, organizer and educator who has worked on healthcare issues with youth.

KENNETH FONG is an immigrant from Hong Kong who has worked as Chinese Community Organizer with Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) since 1991. AIWA is a grassroots San Francisco-based organization that seeks to empower low-income, limited English-speaking Asian immigrant women workers to advocate for better working and living conditions.

DIANA FRAPPIER is the Legal Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which fights human rights abuses on several levels, including operating a lawyer referral service for victims of police misconduct, community organizing and training. Diana has facilitated numerous know-your-rights trainings with the Third Eye Movement and numerous legal trainings for attorneys who practice in the area of police misconduct litigation.

JAISON GARNDER is an 18 year old African American from Louisville, KY who interned with YouthAction last summer. He has since been making noise in his hometown through a ‘zine called BRAT (because your school paper sucks), and his new job with the Board of Aldermans. No injustice is safe from him—be it Mumia’s death sentence, the lack of a youth cultural center, unchecked heterosexism, or unfair (and ineffectual) curfews. Wish him a happy birthday on July 31!

DENNIS GLICK is the Stewardship Program Director for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. In this capacity he oversees GYC's private land oriented research and education, training, community organizing and related advocacy work.

NANCY HAQUE is an organizer/sustainable economics staff person with Portland Jobs with Justice. She works on international solidarity issues, including the fight against sweatshops. She has 25 years experience being a woman of color.

TASHA HARMON is currently the Executive Director of the Community Development Network, an association of nonprofit housing developers in Multnomah County and is also on the steering committee of the Coalition for a Livable Future. She is the former Executive Director of the Center for Popular Economics.

CATHY HOWELL is a former Community Leadership Training Program director at Western States Center and is currently the North Carolina Director for the AFL-CIO.

CAROL HUDSON is the Training Director for Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education. She has more than 20 years experience working with all levels of the community to provide management training and fundraising.

TAJ JAMES is director of the Youth Making a Change program at Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth and serves on the board of We Interrupt This Message.

CLIFF JONES is a senior associate with Technical Assistance for Community Services and specializes in organizational development, diversity in the workplace, unlearning racism and building multicultural alliances.

KENNETH JONES has been active in social change for 20 years and has trained groups across the country in organizational development, strategic planning, leadership development, and fighting racism.

TERRY KELEHER is the Action Education Program Associate at the Applied Research Center, and coordinator of the ERASE (Expose Racism and Advance School Excellence) Initiative. He has 20 years of experience as a community organizer and is a co-founder of the National Organizers Alliance.

PAUL ROGAT LOEB is an associated scholar at Seattle’s Center for Ethical Leadership, comments on social involvement for The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, Utne Reader, CNN, NPR and many other media sources. He is also the author of Nuclear Culture, Hope in Hard Times and Generation at the Crossroads.

KAMAU MARCHARIA is the director of Rural Organizing for Grassroots Leadership, a non-profit organization that supports community organizing in the South, and the founder of South Carolina United Action.

NORMA MARTINEZ is the L.A. Lead Organizer for Californians for Justice, and has extensive experience as a volunteer and organizer in the No on 209 (anti-affirmative action) campaign and as lead organizer in the No on 227 (anti-bilingual education) and 226 (anti-union) campaigns. She has enjoyed constructing a grassroots political machine in the community where she grew up (South Gate, LA), and also makes time to hang out with her daughter Umai.

WILLIAM MCNARY currently serves as the Senior Policy Advisor to Public Campaign, a Washington, D.C. based organization dedicated to building broad public support for Clean Money Campaign Reform. He acts as outreach coordinator to Public Campaign grassroots organizers in 40 states and since 1987 has been the Legislative Director for Citizen Action/Illinois.

TERRY MILLER is Nonprofit Specialist with the law firm of Silk, Adler, and Colvin. He has been providing training to grassroots organizations since 1987 in all areas of financial management.

HOLLY MINCH is a Media Trainer & Strategist with the SPIN Project, a merry band of media mavens that help progressive non-profits nationwide craft press strategies that really work. She has national media experience and is dedicated to grassroots social change.

CLARA LUZ NAVARRO is a Salvadorian immigrant who has lived in the United States for ten years. Since 1990, Clara Luz has been the co-founder and director of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA), a San Francisco-based immigrant women’s group promoting empowerment through leadership training, grassroots political participation, economic development, and cultural pride. MUA is a project of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights.

TOM NOVICK is a Senior Vice President at M & R Strategic Services in Portland. Tom is a consultant, strategist and trainer on issue campaigns and legislative strategies.

TEMA OKUN has worked for 20 years providing fundraising, long-range strategic planning, leadership and staff development help for grassroots social justice organizations. She has been co-leading dismantling racism workshops for over 6 years.

JOHN POMERANZ is the Nonprofit Advocacy Counsel at the Alliance for Justice and has many years of legal expertise. He works with non-profit groups around the country to enhance their capacity to participate in the policy process.

CATHERINE POWELL works at the DataCenter as a member of the ImpactResearch Team of information activists. They are working to build a more successful movement by providing on-call research and analysis, referral and consultation to justice organizations, and by enhancing the movement’s research capacity through on-going collaborative projects and skill sessions.

JULIE QUIROZ is the Director of the Leadership Institute for Sustainable Communities at the Urban Habitat Program in San Francisco. Julie launched the Institute in 1999 with the series entitled, "Taking on the Region: Land, Race, and Communities." She is the former Associate Director of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights.

CHRISTOPHER RAMIREZ is a 25 year old gay Chicano. He is the Southwest Regional Program Coordinator for YouthAction, an organization dedicated to strengthening the quality and quantity of youth organizing across the country. Before joining YouthAction, Christopher did capacity-building work with BreakAway in Nashville, TN.

VALERIE REUTHER has been training activists to raise money since 1986. She has a firm base of experience with grassroots major donor fundraising and believes that anyone can learn to do successful fundraising.

ANDY ROBINSON is the author of Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Proposal Writing. He's worked with social change organizations for 18 years and has raised more than $4 million in grants and donations. His new book, due out next year, is Selling Social Change: How to Earn Money from Your Mission.

ISAIAS RODRIGUEZ is New Youth Communications co-coordinator at Pacific News Service. He has worked with a number of community-based media organizations, co-founded Rodriguez Brothers Productions and is currently using his video-expertise to organize against gentrification of San Francisco's Mission District.

ANITA RODGERS is Co-Director for the Community Alliance of Tenants. Anita has been a community organizer for 8 years and has been with CAT for 2˝ years. She specializes in Landlord Tenant law and legislative issue organizing.

LORETTA J. ROSS is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights Education (CHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia. CHRE is a training and resource center for grassroots activists on using human rights to address social injustices in the United States. Prior to developing the center in 1996, she served as the national program research director for the Atlanta-based Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) from 1990-1995. Ms. Ross’ areas of expertise are human rights, women’s issues, diversity issues, and hate groups and bias crimes.

RINKU SEN is co-Director of the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO). She has over 11 years of experience in training and organizing on issues such as housing, welfare rights, violence intervention and environmental justice. SALLY SMITH is an Organization Development Consultant to nonprofit and for-profit organizations in the areas of strategic planning, program and resource development, and evaluation. She has experience as an Executive Director of three agencies and currently coaches several executive directors of nonprofit organizations in California.

RICH STOLZ is based in the Washington, DC office of the Center for Community Change. He analyzes policy and helps community organizations develop issues related to welfare reform implementation and transportation planning.

ROBIN TEMPLETON works with the Beat Within, a writing and art program with incarcerated youth, and New Youth Communications at Pacific News Service. She is writing a book about how young people are organizing to reverse the trade-off between prisons and schools and is media coordinator for Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex.

STEPHEN THOMAS is the Wyoming Field Representative for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and a former County Commissioner for Teton County, Wyoming. He was a founding board member of the Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust. Prior to moving to Wyoming he was an organizer and Business Representative for the United Food and Commercial Workers union.

JANICE THOMPSON is coordinator of the Oregon Working Group for Campaign Finance Reform, a coalition laying the policy development and education groundwork for clean money campaign reform in Oregon. Janice is a long-time activist with the Rural Organizing Project.

CARMEN VASQUEZ is the Director of Public Policy at the Lesbian and Gay Community Service Center in New York City. Born in Puerto Rico, she has been actively involved in women’s issues, queer issues, immigrant rights issues and Central American issues for many years. Before moving to NYC in 1994, Carmen lived and worked for 19 years in San Francisco.

BARBARA WENGER is Program Director with Just Economics, a consortium of women organizers and activists from around the country who provide economic analysis and economic education tools for labor and community organizing. Barb has supported organizing efforts all over the globe as the former overseas program director at IDEX (the International Development Exchange).

MARCY WESTERLING is Co-Director of the Rural Organizing Project in Oregon. She is an organizer, educator, administrator and leader specializing in working in rural communities on issues related to challenging bigotry and promoting democracy.

JAMES WILLIAMS is the founder of the IntroSpect Development Group, and Director of the Center for Progressive Leadership, which teaches personal and organizational leadership development nationwide. As an activist, he has been involved in community struggles for police accountability, equitable jobs, civil rights and environmental control for more than twenty years.

SALLY YEE has 18 years experience working in the social justice movement as an organizer and educator on reproductive rights, women's health and education issues. She has been a co-trainer of dismantling racism workshops for the last 3 years and has been the lead staff in developing a dismantling racism program at the Western States Center.

THALIA ZEPATOS is a veteran organizer, campaign manager and trainer with 20 years experience in fighting the Right. She is the author of Women for Change: A Grassroots Guide to Activism and Politics.

ED ZUCKERMAN is the Director of Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education. He has over 20 years experience in developing/implementing strategic and organizational plans for non-profit organizations and electoral campaigns.