Executive Director of the Community Justice Action Fund
Kentiya Orange
Policy & Legal Advocacy Manager, BISC
Gina Moore
Senior Manager, Defend Direct Democracy, BISC
Patrick Bigger
Research Director, Climate and Community Project
Dana Brown
Director of Health & Economy, Democracy Collaborative
State Senator Nikil Saval
Pennsylvania's First Senatorial District
Dr. Melissa R. Michelson
Dean of Arts & Sciences, Menlo College
Marcela Mulholland
Political Director, Data for Progress
Chris Melody Fields Figueredo (She/Her/Ella)
Executive Director, The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC)
Pete Davis
Co-founder & Executive Director, The Democracy Policy Network (DPN)
Amanda Litman
Co-founder & Executive Director, Run for Something Action Fund
Rep. Manny Espitia
New Hampshire House of Representatives, Northern Regional Director, Run for Something Action Fund
Dre Chiriboga-Flor
Colorado State Director, 9to5 Colorado
Michael Gianaris
New York State Senate Deputy Majority Leader
Hal Plotkin
Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Education (2009-2014); Senior Scholar, ISKME
Nicole Allen
Director of Open Education, SPARC
Rep. Anna V. Eskamani
Florida House of Representatives
Amber Goodwin
Amber Goodwin, Founder of Community Justice Action Fund, Attorney & Gun Violence Advocate
Tresa Undem
Partner, PerryUndem
Sommer Foster
Co-Executive Director + Michigan Voices
Quentin Savwoir
Political Director, Run for Something Action Fund
Katharine Clark
Santa Fe County Clerk, New Mexico
Michael Swerdlow
Antimonopoly Lead, Democracy Policy Network
Thea Sebastian
Policy Director, Civil Rights Corps
Paul Williams
Executive Director, Center for Public Enterprise
State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa
1st Hampshire District, Massachussetts House of Representatives
Solana Rice
Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director of Liberation in a Generation
Sen. Cynthia Mendes
Rhode Island State Senate
George Stern
Clerk and Recorder, Jefferson County, Colorado
Rollie Williams
Creator/Host, Climate Town
Zain Rizvi
Research Director, Public Citizen
Sen. Emily Randall
Washington State Senate
Elisabeth Epps
Co-founder and Director, Colorado Freedom Fund
Patricia Bordallo Dibildox
Leader of KC Tenants
Amaad Rivera
Chief of Staff, City of Green Bay; Founder, Democracy Fellows
Jennifer Rourke
Co-founder, Rhode Island Political Cooperative
Sen. Tiara Mack
Rhode Island State Senate
Theeda Murphy
Co-Director, No Exceptions Prison Collective
Alex Lee
Member of the California Assembly
Sam Novey
Visiting Fellow, SNF Agora Institute
Sen. Robert Peters
Illinois State Senate
Blair St. Ledger-Olson
Legislative Director, Climate Cabinet
Ashley C. J. Daniels, Ph.D.
2021-2022 ACLS Leading Edge Fellow, Black Girls Vote
Beulah Osueke
Deputy Director, New Voices for Reproductive Justice
Graceanne Hoback
Student PIRGs Open Textbooks Coordinator, Student PIRGs; FSU PIRG Club President
Marsha Donat
BISC
Amanda Litman
Co-executive Director & Co-founder, Run for Something
Chris Melody Fields Figueredo
Head Rabble Rouser, BISC
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Run for Something Action Fund, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center & Democracy Policy Network
Run for Something Action Fund (RFS AF) supports millennial and gen-z involvement in local government through outreach, education, and research. RFS AF builds the next generation of civic-minded, passionate voters, ensuring that young people are engaged and informed about the democratic process.
The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) strengthens democracy by implementing a national progressive strategy for ballot measures rooted in building state-based power. BISC works across many organizations, with local, state, and national leaders to analyze and support the ballot measure landscape.
The Democracy Policy Network (DPN) provides policy support to the next generation of state leaders working to deepen democracy in statehouses across America. We do this by organizing people to gather, package, organize, and amplify transformative state policies across every issue in every state.