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Our Team

Andrew Friedman

Senior Director of Strategy

Tina Habib

Managing Director

Phil Astin

Director of Finance

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Senior Housing Fellow

Sebastian Curihuinca

Digital Media Strategist

Giacomo Francia

Senior Video Producer

Matthew Glover

Political Educator & Organizer

Gabriel Hernández Solano

Director of Communications

Nasreen Jilani

Director of Development

Jerrod MacFarlane

Development Associate

Yaritza Mendez

Director of Power to Win Initiative

Kaitlin Noss

Senior Fellow for Political Education

Ben Parisi

Director of Development & Learning

Michelle Pregiato

Sumitra Rajkumar

Director of Education and Cultural Strategies

Christina Ramos

Director of Community Initiatives

Pam Rozón

Junior Video Producer

Angeles Solis

Director of the Impact and Innovation Initiative

Daniela Tagtachian

Law and Organizing Fellow

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

Olmeca

Daniel José Gaztambide

Assistant Professor of psychology at Queens College

Hugh Michael Hogan

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

Matthew Kemba Jefferson

Modesto "Flako" Jimenez

Executive Director of Oye, Artist, Performer

Joseph Tomás McKellar

Executive Director, PICO California

Nara Roberta Silva

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

Javier H. Valdés

Director, Civic Engagement and Government, Ford Foundation

Eric K. Ward

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

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

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

Raúl Carrillo

Deputy Director of the LPE Project and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School

Amy Carroll

Equity- and Strategy-Focused Consultant

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

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

Catherine Gund

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

Richard Healey

Senior Advisor & Founder, Grassroots Policy Project Civil Rights Activist

Christina Heatherton

American Studies Scholar and Historian of Anti-racist Social Movements

Kemi Ilesanmi

Principal at KGI Projects

Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Filmmaker and Director, FistUp.TV

Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Educator / Cultural Arts / Producer

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

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

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

Director of the New York Working Families Party

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)

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

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

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

Singer and Musician

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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