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Our Team

Andrew Friedman

Senior Director of Strategy

Tina Habib

Managing Director

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Aaron Bryce Lee

Labor Organizer

Karina Claudio Betancourt

Director/Directore-La Tejedora

Daniel Coates

Senior Organizer

Aliana Coello Exclusa

Program Strategist, La Tejedora

Loidymar Duprey González

Program Manager, La Tejedora

Matthew Glover

Gabriel Hernández Solano

Design, Media & Communications Associate

Ben Parisi

Director of Development & Learning

Michelle Pregiato

Sumitra Rajkumar

Senior Fellow for Cultural Strategies

Christina Ramos

Director of Community Initiatives

Lynnette Usher

Property Director

Andrew Friedman

Senior Director of Strategy

Tina Habib

Managing Director

Jessica Bauman

Director, Arden/Everywhere Theater Maker, The Frontera Project

Harry Belafonte

Founding Board Member Emeritus (d. 2023)

Aloe Blacc

Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer & Philanthropist

Rachel Chanoff

Founder & Director, THE OFFICE; Performing Arts + Film

Jennifer Epps-Addison

Founding President, Synergy Power Consulting and former Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy

Kofi Taha

Facilitator, Equity Meets Design

John Whitlow

Associate Professor, CUNY School of Law

Laura Y. Liu

Associate Professor, Global Studies and Geography, The New School

José Acevedo

Senior Partner, New World Consulting

Nisha Agarwal

Deputy Executive Director, International Refugee Assistance Project

Phillip Agnew

Co-Director, Black Men Build

Sulma Arias

Executive Director, People's Action

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Beatriz Beckford

Artist, educator, and strategist

Dan Cantor

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

Santana Caress Benitez

Chef, Culinary Instructor, La Clinica de Comida

Amy Carroll

Equity- and Strategy-Focused Consultant

Oona Chatterjee

Chief of Base-Building, 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

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

Kara Gilmour

Executive Director, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Derek Goldman

Chair, Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts

Jesus Gonzalez

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Center for Popular Democracy

Colin Greer

President, New World Foundation Author & Professor

Catherine Gund

Founder and Director, Aubin Pictures; Producer, Director, Writer, Activist

Javier H. Valdés

Director, Civic Engagement and Government, Ford Foundation

Richard Healey

Senior Advisor & Founder, Grassroots Policy Project Civil Rights Activist

Hugh Hogan

Executive Director, van Ameringen Foundation Environmental Advocate

Kemi Ilesanmi

Executive Director, The Laundromat Project Curator & Cultural Advisor

Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Filmmaker and Director, FistUp.TV

Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Educator / Cultural Arts / Producer

Sarah Johnson

Executive Director, Local Progress Political Organizer

Eric K. Ward

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

James Kass

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

Matthew Kemba Jefferson

Rasmia Kirmani

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

Gara LaMarche

President, Democracy Alliance; Human Rights Advocate

Jose Lopez

Co-Executive Director, Make the Road New York

Kelly Lytle Hernandez

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

Betsy MacLean

Executive Director, Hester Street Community Development Expert

Anusha Mehar

Poet, Producer, and Cultural Organizer

Analilia Mejia

Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy

Maurice Mitchell

National Director, Working Families Party Social Movement Strategist

Rusia Mohiuddin

Master Trainer, Facilitator, Coach, and Strategist Universal Partnership

Scot Nakagawa

Senior Partner, ChangeLab, a racial justice think tank

Chris Newman

Legal Director, General Counsel, National Day Laborer Organizing Network

Sochie Nnaemeka

Director of the New York Working Families Party

Olmeca

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

Executive Director, EmergeNYC, Co-Founding Director, Fulana

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)

Favianna Rodriguez

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

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

Michael Skolnik

Founding Partner, The Soze Agency; Film Director & Producer

Rob Solano

Executive Director, Churches United for Fair Housing

Rodrigo Starz

Radhika Subramaniam

Associate Professor of Visual Culture, Parsons School of Design

Ana Tijoux

Joseph Tomás McKellar

Executive Director, PICO California

Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez

Activist, Author

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

Dorian Warren

Co-President, Community Change & Community Change Action

Billy Wimsatt

Writer, Journalist, Social Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Consultant

Ricardo Aca

Make the Road NY

Take a Breath Fellow

Yinka Akinsulure-Smith

Take a Breath Fellow

Sanda Balaban

YVote/Next Gen Politics

Take a Breath Fellow

Alejandro Banuelos

Take a Breath Fellow

Aloe Blacc

Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer & Philanthropist

Belafonte Fellow

Board of Directors

Tearanie Chinn

Take a Breath Fellow

Tracey Corder

Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE)

Take a Breath Fellow

Kendra Cornejo Munoz

Take a Breath Fellow

Ayanna Desquitado

Take a Breath Fellow

Ry Douglas

Co-Founder, DIVINE

Take a Breath Fellow

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo

Take a Breath Fellow

Sherly Fabre

Take a Breath Fellow

Crisantema Gallardo

Take a Breath Fellow

Paul Getsos

Organizer and movement leader co-author of Tools for Radical Democracy

Take a Breath Fellow

Diego Gonzalez Cordero

Make the Road New Jersey

Take a Breath Fellow

Coco Guthrie-Papy

Take a Breath Fellow

Jennifer Hernandez

Take a Breath Fellow

Mia Herndon

Acupuncturist, facilitator, emergent strategy mason, mama

Take a Breath Fellow

Abena Hutchful

Take a Breath Fellow

Flavia Jimenez

Advancement Project

Take a Breath Fellow

Sanjana Khan

Take a Breath Fellow

Brianna L. Gibson

BlackOUT Collective

Take a Breath Fellow

Alex Lalama

Take a Breath Fellow

Cindy Lee Alves

Take a Breath Fellow

Aura Lindo

Take a Breath Fellow

Manny Lopez

Multimedia theater artist

Take a Breath Fellow

Hector Luis Rivera JR

Take a Breath Fellow

Syrretta Martin

Collective Healing

Take a Breath Fellow

Whitney McGuire

Sustainable Brooklyn

Take a Breath Fellow

Michael Michaelson

Take a Breath Fellow

Alice Mizrachi

Multidisciplinary artist

Take a Breath Fellow

Dorca N Reynoso

Take a Breath Fellow

Zein Nakhoda

Training for Change

Take a Breath Fellow

Sehreen Noor Ali

Take a Breath Fellow

Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price

Education for Liberation Network

Take a Breath Fellow

Ember Ollom

Working Families Party

Take a Breath Fellow

Aubrey Patiño

Avalon Housing, Coalition for Re-Envisioning our Safety

Take a Breath Fellow

Zaria Poem

Take a Breath Fellow

Farima Pour-Khorshid

Educator, Organizer, and Scholar

Take a Breath Fellow

Cynthia Renta

Take a Breath Fellow

Dina Ross

Take a Breath Fellow

Leilani Salvador

Take a Breath Fellow

Alina Shen

Take a Breath Fellow

Kristianna Smith

Queer Black Mama, theater artist, facilitator, gardener, intuitive and sci-fi/fantasy nerd

Take a Breath Fellow

Yamary Sánchez Manso

Take a Breath Fellow

V. T. Nayani

DIrector, Producer, Writer, Doula, Yoga Teacher

Take a Breath Fellow

Luke Taylor

Take a Breath Fellow

Ana Tijoux

Advisory Board

Belafonte Fellow

Alexa Vazquez

Take a Breath Fellow

Natacha Voliakovsky

Take a Breath Fellow

PG Watkins

Take a Breath Fellow

Hameed “Herukhuti” Williams

Afrocentric, Decolonizing Kweer Theory (ADKT)

Take a Breath Fellow

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