Our Team
Staff
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Robbie Barton
Communications Associate
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Robbie Barton
Communications Associate
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Elizabeth Crews
Director of Strategic Initiatives
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Elizabeth Crews
Director of Strategic Initiatives
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Michael Cusack
Director of Technical Assistance
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Michael Cusack
Director of Technical Assistance
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Jane DeRonne
Development Manager
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Jane DeRonne
Development Manager
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Anita Dos Santos
Advocacy Manager
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Anita Dos Santos
Advocacy Manager
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Navdeep (Nav) Gill
Finance Associate
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Navdeep (Nav) Gill
Finance Associate
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Alexis Gudding
Operations Specialist
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Alexis Gudding
Operations Specialist
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Ingrid Haftel
Director of Learning & Design
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Ingrid Haftel
Director of Learning & Design
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Petula Jarvis-Hanley
Democracy Beyond Elections Coalition Manager
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Petula Jarvis-Hanley
Democracy Beyond Elections Coalition Manager
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Kayla Knight
Technical Assistance Project Manager
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Kayla Knight
Technical Assistance Project Manager
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Isabel Luciano
The People's Fellowship Director
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Isabel Luciano
The People's Fellowship Director
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Rahel Mekdim Teka
Director of Strategic Communications
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Rahel Mekdim Teka
Director of Strategic Communications
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Board of Directors
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Joan Bakiriddin
Elsevier Inc. | New York City
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Joan Bakiriddin
Elsevier Inc. | New York City
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Evan Graner
San Francisco
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Evan Graner
San Francisco
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Stephen Lafume
Boston, MA
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Stephen Lafume
Boston, MA
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Robert Sherman, PhD
New York City
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Robert Sherman, PhD
New York City
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Cyndi Tercero-Sandoval
Phoenix Union High School District | Phoenix
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Cyndi Tercero-Sandoval
Phoenix Union High School District | Phoenix
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Jan Weetjens
North American PB Research Board
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Celina Su
Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and a Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York
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Celina Su
Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and a Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York
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Thea Crum
Associate Director of Neighborhoods Initiative at the Great Cities Institute of the University of Illinois at Chicago
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Thea Crum
Associate Director of Neighborhoods Initiative at the Great Cities Institute of the University of Illinois at Chicago
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Daniel Schugurensky
Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University
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Daniel Schugurensky
Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University
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Benjamin Goldfrank
Professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University
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Benjamin Goldfrank
Professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University
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Ron Hayduk
Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University
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Ron Hayduk
Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University
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Gary Hytrek
Professor of Social Geography at California State University, Long Beach
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Gary Hytrek
Professor of Social Geography at California State University, Long Beach
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Lodewijk Gelauff
PhD Student in Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
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Lodewijk Gelauff
PhD Student in Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
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Jude Miller (they/he)
Research Fellow, Participatory Budgeting Project
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Jude Miller (they/he)
Research Fellow, Participatory Budgeting Project
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Yvonne Yen Liu
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Solidarity Research Center
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Yvonne Yen Liu
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Solidarity Research Center
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Tara Bartlett
Senior Research Analyst School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
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Tara Bartlett
Senior Research Analyst School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University