Speakers Bureau: Activism
Aaron Naparstek - Editor-in-Chief, www.streetsblog.com
Abdul Henderson - District Representative for Veteran's Affairs, Office of Congresswoman Diane E. Watson
Adonal Foyle - Founder and President, Democracy Matters
Adrian Dellinger - Raleigh, North Carolina Outreach Coordinator, Generation Engage
Adrienne Maree Brown - Executive Director, Ruckus Society
Al Giordano - Blogger, www.narconews.com
Alexis McGill - Executive Director, Citizen Change
Alison Hanold - Associate Director, Center for Social Media at American University
Amanda Carpenter - "Hot Button" Columnist, The Washington Times
Amanda Marcotte - Blogger, www.pandagon.net, and Podcaster at RH Reality Check
Amar Bakshi - reporter, washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com, "How the World Sees America"
Amina Norman-Hawkins - Writer, performing artists, hip-hop activist
Andres Idarraga - student, Brown University
Andrew Gillum - city commissioner, Tallahassee, FL, and deputy director, Young People For
Angel Brown - program manager, Advocates for Youth's GBLTQ Initiatives
Angela Peacock - army sergeant, anti-sexual assault advocate
Angela Woodson - Director of Outreach for the Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-based Initiatives
Anna Aurilio - legislative director, US PIRG
April R. Silver - founder of AKILA WORKSONGS, Inc.
Apuk Ayuel - Sudan native, special assistant to the head of Mission, the government of Southern Sudan's Mission to the U.S.
Ardie Hollifield - Federal Lobbyist at the Center for Responsible Lending
Awais Khaleel - vice-president of the College Democrats of America
Bakari Kitwana - co-founder, National Hip-Hop Political Convention; author of "The Hip-Hop Generation"
Bec Hamilton - representative, Genocide Intervention Network
Ben Adler - staff writer, The Politico
Bernard (Bernie) Kleina - Executive Director, HOPE Fair Housing Center and Photographer
Beverly Fish - president of the Ann Arbor/Washtenaw County chapter of the National Organization for Women
Billy Wimsatt - Executive Director of The League of Young Voters
Brandon Terry - activist, lecturer
Camilo Mejía - chairman, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Carmen Berkley - vice-president of the United States Student Association
Carmencita (Chie) Abad - sweatshop activist
Carol Browner - former administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Chris Myers Asch - founder, U.S. Public Service Academy
Christopher Sprinkle - producer, Brave New Foundation
Cynthia T. Ferguson - United States Navy Nurse
David Halperin - Director, Campus Progress, and Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress
David Madland - Director, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress
David Rosenfeld - campus program director, Student PIRGs
Dawn-Elissa Fischer - Youth and Education Coordinator, Hiphop Archive, Stanford University
Desiree Pipkins - social activist
Dorothy Stoneman - founder and president, YouthBuild USA
Dr. Jaime Grant - Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute
Dr. John Holtzclaw - chairman, transportation committee, Sierra Club
Dune Lankard - activist
Eboo Patel - founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core
Eddy Morales - Deputy Director of Leadership Development at the Center for Community Change
Eli Paintedcrow - veteran of Iraq war
Eli Pariser - executive director, MoveOn.org Political Action
Eloise-Rose Lee - program director, Media Alliance.
Erikka Yancy - associate producer, Brave New Foundation
Erin Mazursky - co-founder & former director, STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition
Ethan Eilon - executive director, CRNC
Faisal Alam - founder and former director of Al-Fatiha
Favianna Rodriguez - Artist and grassroots activist
Frederick M. Hess - director of education policy studies, American Enterprise Institute; executive editor, Education Next
Gabriel Pendas - vice-president, United States Student Association
Gabrielle Bérubé - intern with Opportunity Maine and youth mobilizer
Galen Peterson - Founding Director, Turf Unity Music Program
Going Local - One organization in the Pacific Northwest is focusing on getting out the vote for local elections.
Hans Riemer - Executive Vice President and Washington Director, Rock the Vote
Harylm 125 - Actor, poet, activist
Heather Box - field development director, League of Young Voters
Heather Smith - Executive Director, Rock the Vote
Jay Woodson - activist, National Hip Hop Political Convention
Jeff Johnson - senior advisor for youth and urban outreach, People for the American Way
Jeff Johnson - Executive Director of Truth is Power
Jefferson Smith - founding chair, Oregon Bus Project
Jehmu Greene - national director, Project Vote
Jen Horwitz - Field organizer for Amnesty International USA's Mid-Atlantic Regional Office
Jennifer Heitel Yakush - public policy associate, SIECUS
Jennifer Pae - vice president, United States Student Association
Jimmy Massey - U.S. Marine
Joe Montano - norther Virginia regional field organizer, State Partnership Program
Joseph Steve Franco - National Coordinator at Voto Latino
Josh Norek - Deputy Director, Voto Latino
Jotaka Eaddy - field Manager, USAction & USAction Education Fund
Julian Bond - chairman, NAACP. Civil rights activist.
Kandi Mosset - tribal Campus Climate Challenge organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network
Karin Wang - activist
Karlo Barrios Marcelo - research associate, CIRCLE
Kat Barr - deputy political director at Rock the Vote
Kathleen Cogan - organizer for Student PIRGs
Keli Goff - blogger, commentator, and author of Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai - Spoken word artist, playwright, essayist, choreographer
Kenyon Farrow - activist, writer, and community organizer
Kierra Johnson - executive director, Choice USA
LaGloria Wheatfall - media, journalism, and HIV/AIDS activism
Laren Poole - founder and filmmaker, Invisible Children
Lucas Benitez - Co-director of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Luke Swarthout - associate director, State Public Interest Research Group Higher Education Project
Lyric Thompson - Policy Analyst at Women for Women International
Malcom Glenn - editor and blogger
Malia Lazu - executive director, Racial Justice Campaign Fund
Mallika Dutt - founder and executive director of Breakthrough.
Manju Rajendran - League of Young Voters
Maria McMath - researcher, African American culture in the U.S.
Maria Teresa Petersen - executive director, Voto Latino
Martha Diaz - educator, organizer, and filmmaker
Mary Anne Hitt - executive director, Appalachian Voices
Mary Mahoney - assistant director, Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Matt Ortega - Internet Department for the Democratic National Committee
Matt Singer - freelance writer, Left in the West; student, University of Montana
Maya Rockeymoore - founder, President, CEO of Global Policy Solutions
Melissa Lynn Bradley - founder and president, New Capitalist
Mia Mingus - co-executive director of SPARK Reproductive Justice Now.
Michael Bracy - co-founder, the Future of Music Coalition. Advocate for the music community.
Michael Hirsh - international affairs writer for Newsweek, Washington Web Editor for Newsweek
Miriam Yeung - executive director, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
Miriam Zoila Pérez - freelance writer and online communications consultant
Molly Beacham - director of development, Democracy North Carolina
Mona Sutphen - former diplomat, managing director of the New York office of Stonebridge International.
Monique Harden - co-founded Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
Nancy Rubin - former U.S. Ambassador to U.N. Commission on Human Rights
Nathan Rothstein - co-founder of the New Orleans Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals Initiative
Omar Khan - student activist
Omer Ismail - co-founder, Sudan Democratic Forum
Pat McGann - communications director, Men Can Stop Race
Pete Woiwode - field director for Oakland Rising
Rabbi David Saperstein - director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Raed Jarrar - architect and political analyst
Raf Noboa - veteran of Iraq war; writer; student
Rajai Hakki - U.S. marine; student, American University
Ralph Nader - consumer advocate
Rebecca Thompson - chief lobbyist for USSA
Reverend James Forbes - senior minister, The Riverside Church
Reverend Lennox Yearwood - President of The Hip Hop Caucus
Robert "Biko" Baker - Executive Director of The League of Young Voters.
Robert Cabrales - community organizer, Communities for a Better Environment
Rosa Clemente - organizer, journalist, and entrepreneur
Ryan Gosling - actor and activist
S. Bear Bergman - writer, theater artist, and a queer activist.
Sam Davis - policy analyst
Sara Fatell - Political organizer
Silvia Martinez - Coordinator of the Trans Network of Nicaragua
Stefanie L. Brown - National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division
Stephanie Chang - former field organizer, One United Michigan
Stephanie Nyombayire - representative, Genocide Intervention Network; student, Swarthmore College
Timothy McCarthy - professor Harvard Kennedy School
Tom Hayden - social and political activist
Tom Malinowski - Washington advocacy director, Human Rights Watch
Tom Matzzie - Washington director, MoveOn PAC
Troy G. Clair - Deputy Director of External Relations for Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer
Weldon McWilliams - student, Temple University
Will Mega - political strategist and activist
William Brawner - AIDS educator and activist
William Upski Wimsatt - author; founder and executive director, League of Young Voters Education Fund; founder and executive director, League of Young Voters
Yvonne Tran - youth organizer with Californians for Justice
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