Advisory Board

José Acevedo

Senior Partner, New World Consulting

Nisha Agarwal

Deputy Executive Director, International Refugee Assistance Project

Phillip Agnew

Co-Director, Black Men Build

Lemon Andersen

Actor, Playwright, and Tony Award-Winning Poet

Sulma Arias

Executive Director, People's Action

Natalia Aristizábal

Deputy Director at Make the Road NY

Sameer Ashar

Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Equity Initiatives, and Director of the Workers, Law, and Organizing Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Senior Housing Fellow

Beatriz Beckford

Artist, educator, and strategist

Corinne Blalock

Executive Director of the Law and Political Economy Project and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School

Jordan Camp

Assistant Professor of American Studies, co-director of Trinity’s Social Justice Initiative, and co-host of Conjuncture

Dan Cantor

Dan Cantor is co-founder and former executive director, Working Families Party

Santana Caress Benitez

Chef, Culinary Instructor, La Clinica de Comida

Oona Chatterjee

Chief of Staff, Center for Popular Democracy

John Clinton Eisner

Artistic Director and Co-Founder, The Lark Theatre

DaMareo Cooper

Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy

Ani Cordero

Singer/Composer & Activist, Albums: Querido Mundo (2017), El Machete (2019)

JD Davids

Strategist, Storyteller, Organizer, Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness

Dasic Fernández

Brigid Flaherty

Senior Organizing Strategist with the Addition Collective

Miriam Fogelson

President, Harness

John Forté

Artist, Filmmaker, Writer & Activist, Grammy-nominated member of The Fugees

Melissa Friedling

Assistant Professor of Filmmaking, The New School

Daniel José Gaztambide

Assistant Professor of psychology at Queens College

Kara Gilmour

Executive Director, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Derek Goldman

Chair, Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts

Jesús González

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Center for Popular Democracy

Rosie Gordon-Wallace

Curator, Arts Advocate, Community Leader and pioneer in advancing contemporary diaspora art

Colin Greer

President, New World Foundation Author & Professor

Richard Healey

Senior Advisor & Founder, Grassroots Policy Project Civil Rights Activist

Christina Heatherton

American Studies Scholar and Historian of Anti-racist Social Movements

Hugh Michael Hogan

Philanthropic Advisor/Coach at the NYC Mental Health Workforce Crisis Group

Jonathan Hogstad

Director, Strategic Campaigns Project

Kemi Ilesanmi

Principal at KGI Projects

Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Filmmaker and Director, FistUp.TV

Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Educator / Cultural Arts / Producer

Matthew Kemba Jefferson

Modesto "Flako" Jimenez

Executive Director of Oye, Artist, Performer

Sarah Johnson

Executive Director, Local Progress Political Organizer

Anjali Kamat

Journalist and Filmmaker

Amy Kapczynski

Professor of Law at Yale Law School

James Kass

Writer, Educator, and Producer Youth Speaks, Brave New Voices, Poetic License

Coco Killingsworth

Chief Experience and Impact Officer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

Rasmia Kirmani

Interim Executive Director, Hester Street; Commissioner, NYC Planning Commission

Chenjerai Kumanyika

Assistant Professor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

Gara LaMarche

President, Democracy Alliance; Human Rights Advocate

Cicia Lee

Director of Trainings & Partnerships at Popular Comms

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning, UCLA

José López

Co-Executive Director, Make the Road New York

Betsy MacLean

NYC Chief Policy & Innovation Officer

Joseph Tomás McKellar

Executive Director, PICO California

Anusha Mehar

Poet, Producer, and Cultural Organizer

Analilia Mejía

Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy

Maurice Mitchell

National Director, Working Families Party Social Movement Strategist

Alice Mizrachi

Mixed Media Artist

Rusia Mohiuddin

Master Trainer, Facilitator, Coach, and Strategist Universal Partnership

Arlenis Morel

Co-Executive Director of Make the Road New York

Scot Nakagawa

Senior Partner, ChangeLab, a racial justice think tank

Chris Newman

Legal Director, General Counsel, National Day Laborer Organizing Network

Sochie Nnaemeka

Executive Vice President, Democracy Alliance

Theo Oshiro

Co-Executive Director, Make the Road New York

Jenny Polak

Artist working in architectural installations, drawing & useful commemorative objects

Lorella Praeli

Co-President, Community Change & Community Change Action

Marlène Ramírez-Cancio

Co-Executive Director & Artistic Director

David Riker

Filmmaker, Writer, Editor, Films include: La Ciudad, The Girl, and Dirty Wars

Alex Rivera

Filmmaker: Sleep Dealer and The Infiltrators (winner of multiple awards at Sundance in 2019)

Jonathan "Johnny" Rivera-Morales

Playwright, Actor, Educator

Favianna Rodriguez

Co-Founder & President, The Center for Cultural Power Artist & Activist

Benjamin Ross

Educator, Facilitator, and Community Builder

Peter Salett

Musician & Activist Founder, the Hometown Project

Linda Sarsour

Author, Racial Justice and Civil Rights Activist, Community Organizer

Brian Satz

Musical Director, Producer, Composer

Dread Scott

Artist, What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag (1989) Shows at Whitney, MoMA PS1

Yosi Sergant

Publicist & Activist, TaskForce Managed 2008 Obama HOPE campaign

Nara Roberta Silva

Faculty member and Praxis Program head at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Michael Skolnik

Founding Partner, The Soze Agency; Film Director & Producer

Rob Solano

Executive Director, Churches United for Fair Housing

Lester Spence

Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Alta Starr

Director of Training for Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (B.O.L.D.)

Rodrigo Starz

Radhika Subramaniam

Associate Professor of Visual Culture, Parsons School of Design

Lah Tere

Humanitarian, Organizer, Activist, and Emcee

Ana Tijoux

Singer and Musician

Chris Torres

Lead Producer at BRIC, Dep. Director of Organizing at CUFFH

Cristina Tzintzún Ramírez

Activist, Author

Javier H. Valdés

Director, Civic Engagement and Government, Ford Foundation

Clyde Valentín

Director, Ignite/Arts Dallas: People, Purpose & Place, SMU Meadows School of Art

India Walton

Registered Nurse, Organizer, Strategic Director of Roots Action Civic Education

Eric K. Ward

Executive Director, Western States Center; Senior Fellow, Southern Poverty Law Center

Dorian Warren

Co-President, Community Change & Community Change Action

Billy Wimsatt

Writer, Journalist, Social Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Consultant

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