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Board

Mehrsa Baradaran, Professor of Law, UC Irvine
Mehrsa Baradaran
Professor of Law, UC Irvine
Mehrsa Baradaran, Professor of Law, UC Irvine
Mehrsa Baradaran
Professor of Law, UC Irvine
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Saqib Bhatti, Co-founder and Co-Executive Director, The Action Center on Race and the Economy and ACRE Institute
Saqib Bhatti
Co-founder and Co-Executive Director, The Action Center on Race and the Economy and ACRE Institute
Saqib Bhatti, Co-founder and Co-Executive Director, The Action Center on Race and the Economy and ACRE Institute
Saqib Bhatti
Co-founder and Co-Executive Director, The Action Center on Race and the Economy and ACRE Institute
Saqib Bhatti is the co-founder and Co-Executive Director of the Action Center on Race and the Economy and ACRE Institute. Saqib works on campaigns to win racial and economic justice by taking on the corporations responsible for extracting wealth and resources from communities of color and poor people. Saqib started organizing with the student anti-war movement following 9/11. He spent 10 years working on corporate campaigns with the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas and the Service Employees International Union. He was previously a fellow at the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Roosevelt Institute. Saqib is a co-founder and Executive Committee member of the Bargaining for the Common Good Network. He serves on the boards of the Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, the Climate Organizing Hub, the Midwest Academy, and Political Research Associates. He is also on the Advisory Council of Community Labor United. Saqib received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and his master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.
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Rebecca Dixon, President and Chief Executive Officer, NELP
Rebecca Dixon
President and Chief Executive Officer, NELP
Rebecca Dixon, President and Chief Executive Officer, NELP
Rebecca Dixon
President and Chief Executive Officer, NELP
NELP is led by President and Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Dixon. Rebecca is a respected national leader in federal workers’ rights advocacy and is in great demand for her thought leadership on issues of labor and racial, gender, and economic justice. Prior to taking the helm in 2020, Rebecca served on NELP’s Executive Management team as Chief of Programs. Rebecca’s commitment to advancing workers’ rights and economic justice is deeply rooted in her lived experience growing up in rural Mississippi at the intersection of race, class, and gender—characteristics that have long defined one’s ability to participate in our democracy and economy. As the descendant of enslaved people and daughter of sharecroppers and domestic workers, Rebecca knows firsthand what is lost when workers of color are relegated to the lowest rungs of our labor market, without respect, rights, and protections. She is a board member of The American Project, the Coalition on Human Needs, the Hope Enterprise Corporation, and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation; and a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network in the South, the 2020 Aspen Institute SOAR Leadership Fellowship, and the 2021 National Academy of Social Insurance’s Unemployment Insurance Reform Working Group and COVID-19 Task Force. Rebecca holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Duke University, and a law degree from Duke Law School.
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Lisa Donner, Co-Executive Director
Lisa Donner
Co-Executive Director
Lisa Donner, Co-Executive Director
Lisa Donner
Co-Executive Director
Lisa Donner is the Co-Executive Director of AFR/AFREF. Prior to joining the organization, Lisa was the Executive Director of the Half in Ten Campaign, and the co-director of the Center for Working Families. In these positions she developed and promoted policies on fair taxes, work and family, anti-poverty measures, and green jobs. Lisa began her career in advocacy as a union and community organizer and campaign strategists at ACORN, and as the Director of the Financial Justice Center, where she fought against big banks and predatory lending. Lisa previously served as AFR/AFREF’s Deputy Director before becoming Executive Director.
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Darrick Hamilton, Professor of Economics and Urban Development, The New School
Darrick Hamilton
Professor of Economics and Urban Development, The New School
Darrick Hamilton, Professor of Economics and Urban Development, The New School
Darrick Hamilton
Professor of Economics and Urban Development, The New School
Darrick Hamilton is the director of the doctoral program in public and urban policy, and jointly appointed as professor of economics and urban policy at The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy and the Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research at The New School in New York. Professor Hamilton is a stratification economist, whose work focuses on the causes, consequences and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in economic and health outcomes, which includes an examination of the intersection of identity, racism, colorism, and socioeconomic outcomes. He has authored numerous scholarly articles on socioeconomic stratification in education, marriage, wealth, homeownership, health (including mental health), and labor market outcomes. Professor Hamilton has provided formal or informal consultation with numerous government and not-for-profit organizations including American Human Development Project, Black Equity Alliance, Brooklyn Friends School, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Center for American Progress, CFED, Center for Social Development, Congressional Black Caucus, Council of Economic Advisors-The White House, Demos, Economic Policy Institute, Empire State Coalition of Youth and Family Services, Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, of Boston, and of New York, Food Bank of New York City, The Ford Foundation, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, NSF’s Social Observatories Coordinating Network, National Urban League, New York City Workgroup on Health and Race for the United Nation’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Shadow Report, PolicyLink, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SEIU, the Twenty-First Century Foundation, U.S. Office of EEOC, and the Urban Institute.
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Kimberly Longey, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer, Free Press
Kimberly Longey
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer, Free Press
Kimberly Longey, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer, Free Press
Kimberly Longey
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer, Free Press
Kimberly Longey oversees organizational development, capacity building and financial-management activities at the Free Press. She has more than 25 years’ experience building, growing and reinventing nonprofit organizations. Before joining Free Press, Kimberly served as deputy director of Proteus Fund and executive director of Hilltown Community Development Corp. She has held numerous elected and appointed government and civic positions in Massachusetts. She holds a master’s degree in community economic development from the University of Southern New Hampshire.
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Steven Renderos, Executive Director, Media Justice
Steven Renderos
Executive Director, Media Justice
Steven Renderos, Executive Director, Media Justice
Steven Renderos
Executive Director, Media Justice
Steven Renderos is the Executive Director of Media Justice, a national racial justice hub fighting for digital rights of people of color. As MediaJustice’s long time Campaign Director, he led a number of high-profile campaigns like the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, which lowered the cost of prison phone calls nationwide. Steven also led efforts to win the nation’s strongest Net Neutrality rules, blocked the merger of Comcast and Time Warner and pressured Facebook to ban white nationalists on their platform. Steven came to the organization through the MediaJustice Network, helping recruit and grow the network to its current size of over 100 member organizations. A native of Los Angeles, Steven grew up in an immigrant household at the height of anti-immigrant fervor in California. The propaganda campaign that fueled the passage of Proposition 187 in the mid-90s motivated Steven to seek out a career to challenge media bias and democratize communications for immigrants, people of color and other communities at the margins. He is the co-founder of Radio Pocho, a DJ collective in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which seeks to reclaim cultural roots through music.
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Graham Steele, Fellow, Financial Regulation, Roosevelt Institute
Graham Steele
Fellow, Financial Regulation, Roosevelt Institute
Graham Steele, Fellow, Financial Regulation, Roosevelt Institute
Graham Steele
Fellow, Financial Regulation, Roosevelt Institute
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Ericka Taylor, Co-Executive Director
Ericka Taylor
Co-Executive Director
Ericka Taylor, Co-Executive Director
Ericka Taylor
Co-Executive Director
Ericka Taylor is the Co-Director of Americans for Financial Reform, where she previously held roles as the Acting Chief of Staff and Director of Popular Education. Immediately prior, she served as a Co-Director of DC Working Families Party, a state chapter of the national organization working to build progressive political power in communities across the country. Ericka has spent the bulk of her career in organizing and advocacy, including positions with Organizing Neighborhood Equity DC (ONE DC), DC ACORN, and Tenants and Workers Support Committee. She has also worked as a program officer with the Public Welfare Foundation and trained young people and youth organizers as the Southeast Regional Program Coordinator for YouthAction. Ericka earned her BA in English from Cornell University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. She currently sits on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and has served on the boards or steering committees of the National Organizers Alliance, Progressive Technology Project, YouthAction, Western States Center, National Priorities Project, La Clínica del Pueblo, and Jews United for Justice.
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