Stacy Austin

Stacy Austin is a senior majoring in Political Science and Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University. Stacy is a PoliCorps Fellow for the Oregon Bus Project, a successful voter mobilization project in Oregon. Stacy is also a staff writer for the Oregon State Barometer, Oregon State’s daily newspaper, and is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Rebecca Buckwalter

Rebecca is a sophomore majoring in Government at Harvard University. Rebecca is a Senior Editor of the Harvard International Review, an active member of the Harvard Democrats and a Radcliffe Research Fellow in Latin American studies. This semester, Rebecca is off campus interning in Washington, DC for James Carville.

Chris Burks

Chris is a junior majoring in Political Science at Davidson College in North Carolina, where he is the Co-President of the Davidson College Young Democrats and a Student Government Senator. Chris also writes a sports/politics blog called The Razorback. Chris is originally from Little Rock, AR and claims to “bleed University of Arkansas Razorback Red.”

Katie Cristol

Katie is a junior majoring in Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia. Katie is involved with UVA’s Thomas Jefferson Chapter of the Virginia Young Democrats and is the 2004 recipient of the VYD Emily Couric Award. In addition, Katie writes a weekly column for the school’s Cavalier Daily, and serves as the Equality for Same Sex Couples Fellow with UVA Hillel’s Public Policy Institute.

Becky Dernbach

Becky is a sophomore at Carleton College in Minnesota, where she is very involved in campus activism and currently lives in the Wellstone House of Organizing and Activism. She is the Midwest Regional Co-Coordinator for Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND) and is working on an environmental justice campaign with Minnesota PIRG.

Nathan Dickerson

Nathan is a junior majoring in Human Studies with a Computer Science minor at the University of Kentucky. He is one of the founding editors of the Kentucky Colonel, a Campus Progress-supported publication. He is the Vice President of Mortar Board, a service-oriented honor society which has the mission of promoting equal opportunities among all people and advancing the status of women. Nathan has worked with the ACLU, Lambda (the LGBT group at Kentucky ), and the College Democrats on his campus and was the President of the Freshmen Engineering Student Council his first year.

Daphne Lasky

Daphne is a junior majoring in Architecture at Middlebury College. During the 2004-2005 academic year, she was the Secretary of the Middlebury College Democrats. Daphne has spent the last eight months working with two fellow students to organize a week-long symposium, “Selling the News: Behind the Scenes of the American Media,” which focuses on the idea of news as a commodity.

Erin Leggett

Erin is a junior majoring in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is a Publicity Chair for the Vanderbilt Feminists, for which she co-wrote and directed a Mock Rape Trial last year. She serves as the Vice President of the Vanderbilt Civil Liberties Union, is an active member of the Vanderbilt Animal Rights Coalition, and does publicity for IMAGE, Vanderbilt’s organization that deals with eating disorders among college students.

Matthew Lesser

Matthew is a junior majoring in History at Wesleyan University, where he is an active member of the Parliamentary Debate Team, Students for Clean Elections, and the Student-Labor Action Committee. Last spring, Matthew spent the semester as a visiting student at Michigan State University, where he worked with the Michigan State University Democrats to coordinate efforts with party organizations and candidates in the region.

Luther Lowe

Originally from Arkansas, Luther is a senior Government major at the College of William & Mary. In 2004, Luther helped create The Student Voting Rights Campaign, a national network of activists with a stake in the problem of student voter suppression. Luther has been an invited speaker at various conferences and universities for his work as a student activist. In addition to his work on voting rights activism, Luther is the Chairman of the Student Assembly Senate at William & Mary, and is the State President of the College Democrats of Virginia.

Megan Mitchell

Megan is a junior majoring in Political Science and English at Wellesley College, where she is working to establish an umbrella organization for progressive groups on campus. She is the Co-Coordinator for Generation 50/50, an organization that will host a conference at Wellesley on women in politics. She is also a member of the non-partisan Committee for Political and Legislative Action and the Student Admission Board.

Jessica Morales

Jessica is a sophomore majoring in Anthropolgy and Political Science at Rosemont College. She is a member of Nova Jhoom, Villanova’s only South Asian all-female dance team, and the Organization of African American students. She is also the President and co-founder of 19CENTS, a student-to-student lunch to literacy program that raises money for nineteen-cent-a-day school lunches for chronically hungry school girls in Chad.

Adam Pulver

Adam Pulver is a first-year student at Columbia Law School, where he serves as a Dean’s Public Interest Fellow. Adam graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Community Health. At Columbia, Adam is an active member in the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the Public Interest Law Foundation, the Young Democrats, and is a founding member and Policy Chair of the Hurricane Katrina Relief Committee. At Tufts, Adam was a University Scholar, Founding Chair of the Student Health Advisory Board, Social Justice Chair for Tufts Hillel, Vice President of Tufts Students for Dean, and served on a number of ad hoc committees for the school’s University College of Citizenship and Public Service. He also was a staff writer and weekly columnist for The Tufts Daily, focusing on community empowerment and student health issues. Adam hopes to pursue a career in public health law and policy, focusing on low-income children and families.

Laura Rodriguez

Laura is a sophomore majoring in Government and Economics at Dartmouth College. She is on the executive committee of the Nathan Smith pre-med society, and Chief of Staff of the Model United Nations. Laura is the Chair of Education and Training for Dartmouth’s Alternative Spring Break, which seeks to educate about homelessness in the Washington, DC area and sends students to Washington to work in a homeless shelter over their spring breaks. In her free time, Laura teaches salsa and other forms of Latin dance to undergraduates at Dartmouth.

Jennifer Sokoler

Jennifer is a senior majoring in Political Science and Economics at Barnard College. She is an editorial writer for the Columbia Spectator and has worked off campus at the University of Mississippi working for the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. At Barnard she is the founding Co-President of Smart Women Lead, an organization dedicated to advancing the participation of women in political life, and was Co-Chair of the Barnard Women’s History Month. Jennifer serves as a Senior Representative to the Board of Trustees, and is the Statewide Director for Students for Spitzer. During the 2004 Presidential election season, Jennifer served as President of Columbia Students for Clark. In addition to her political work, Jennifer is also dedicated to education, and was the Campus Campaign Manager for Teach for America and a Civic Engagement Course Teacher for Liberty Tutors.

Yasin Southall

Yasin is a sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, where he is studying History, Journalism and International Relations. Yasin is the Opinion Editor for the University of Cincinnati’s News Record, is the Vice President of Global, an organization dedicated to slowing corporate globalization, serves on the directional committee for United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), and is working with the newly created Progressive and Radical Student Union to start a progressive monthly journal.

Kai Stinchcombe

Kai is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Stanford University. As an undergraduate at Stanford, Kai was the President of the Stanford Democrats, the Editor in Chief of the Stanford Progressive, and the founder and President of the Roosevelt Institution.

Kanishk Tharoor

Kanishk is a senior History and Literature major at Yale University. He works for a number of student publications on campus including: The Hippolytic (a Campus Progress-supported publication); the Yale Globalist, for which he is a News Editor; and the Yale Review of Books. Kanishk is incredibly committed to international policy issues and works for the Yale Center of Globalization, where he edits the center’s online magazine and is the co-founder of Green Line, a Yale-based organization that aspires to help small NGOs around the world produce more coherent and accessible English-language literature. In addition, he remains active in the Yale Coalition for Peace, the Yale Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Undergraduate Organizing Committee, a university-based workers’ rights organization on campus.

Ishaan Tharoor

Ishaan is a senior at Yale University majoring in History and Literature. As the founding editor of the Campus Progress-supported publication, The Hippolytic, Ishaan has worked closely with Campus Progress over the past year. Ishaan also writes for the Yale Daily News, the Yale Heraldand the Globalist. In addition, he has devoted a great deal of time at Yale as an organizer for local labor campaigns, and was the leader of the anti-war coalition two years ago.

Stephen Tipton

Stephen is a sophomore majoring in Political Science and Business Finance at John Carroll University in Ohio. Stephen is a Class Senator for the Student Government, a varsity soccer player, the founder and President of the JCU College Democrats, a member of Campus Crusade for Christ, and a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.

Amanda Wilkerson

Amanda Wilkerson is a senior at Florida A&M University, majoring in Political Science. At FAMU, Amanda serves as the Vice President Emeritus of the College Democrats and Director of Student Lobbying for FAMU Student Government Association. She is a member of the National Vote Coalition and the National Organization for Women, as well as an inaugural member of the Center for Promise and Opportunity Student Coalition at FAMU.