Local Progress 2019 Convening Detroit, MI LOCAL PARTNERS

Detroit Action is a Metro-Detroit grassroots membership based organization that fights for economic and social justice for working class people across our region. We are building a powerful movement that will transform our region through issue and electoral organizing, legislative advocacy, and grassroots mobilization. Our mission is to build the political and economic power of low and moderate-income Detroiters of color in order to change public policy and communities for the better.

Flint Rising is a coalition of community organizations and allies working to ensure that directly impacted people are building the organizing infrastructure and leadership necessary for this long-haul fight for justice and creating the future that Flint families need and deserve.

2 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS

WELCOME • 4

THE AGENDA • 6

ELECTED OFFICIAL ATTENDEES • 24

PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION NETWORK NOMINEES • 32

SPEAKERS • 35

BOARD OF DIRECTORS • 58

POLICY PARTNERS • 63

COLLECTIVE IMPACT ISSUES • 64

DETROIT RENAISSANCE HOTEL MAPS • 67

SPONSORS • 70

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 3 WELCOME

“The question really is not whether we’ll be tied to the somethings of our past, but whether we are courageous enough to be tied to the whole of them.”

—Ta-Nahesi Coates testimony to the House on reparations

LOCAL PROGRESS MEMBERS, busting, redlining and exclusionary zoning: this has There is no doubt that we are in a dark moment in systematically stripped wealth from black families and our country’s history. Each day, a new and seemingly communities of color. Inequality in our public schools more horrifying story emerges from our government: is built on a legacy of local efforts to oppose busing and from the White House and too many of our State Houses. school desegregation. Current voter suppression efforts Children in overcrowded cages, sleeping on concrete rest on a long political history that has—from its very floors. The rights of women under fierce assault. inception through the Jim Crow era to today - sought to We are all called to public service because we have deny full participation to black and immigrant commu- a different vision. We believe in the power of govern- nities to tilt the scales of power in favor of white people. ment as a tool of justice and transformation for our To move past these crises to a new vision for the role communities, grounded in founding ideals of equality of government in our society—one that is grounded in a and inalienable rights. commitment to equity and inclusion, and will require Also grounded in our history and founding of our us as local officials to be simultaneously bold, visionary, country are our most present horrors. Our structures brave, and also self-reflective and humble. and political systems were intentionally designed to Equity, Justice, Power. This is more than just a perpetuate racial exclusion and to benefit the wealthy theme for one convening. It is a call to dismantle sys- few at the expense of the many. tems of racism and oppression that have been created, As we gather together for the 2019 Local Progress enabled, and facilitated through government policies National Convening, we are called to respond to an and programs. It is a challenge to all of us to ground abundance of crises, and not just the ones provoked by our work deeply in equity—a commitment not just to the Trump Administration. We face a crisis of housing equality of opportunity but to fundamentally level the affordability and eviction that threatens the stability of steeply tilted playing fields. It is a call to pursue the our communities. We face a crisis of policing and mass type of transformational change that is only possible incarceration that has made us the most incarcerated when our government truly represents, reflects, and country in the world. We face a crisis of public health includes all of our communities, particularly those most and inadequate investment infrastructure that has left traditionally marginalized. It is an invitation to think children without clean water to drink and communities critically not just about the policy outcomes of our work, without responses to the disasters of climate change. but also about the processes we engage in as we advance We feel the urgency of these crises. But to address progressive change. It is a request to think about the them, we must attend to the history—and the public intersections in all our work—how race, gender, and institutions and decisions—that have created them. class overlap in the lived experience of our communi- Our housing crisis is built on systemic discrimination ties and across the totality of our work across all of our by local, state and federal governments through block- issue areas.

4 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 This is hard work and will require us to be both Our convening is always an opportunity to cele- audacious in our goals and reflective in our practice, brate our hard-fought victories, strategize about the but we know that our network is a place that this change year ahead and build a community of mutual support to can take hold. We see it in your work every day, especially bolster us in our work. This year, we are challenging each in the fierceness with which you fight for policy outcomes other to spend time in reflection and honest conversa- that reverse decades-old racial disparities. tion with a focus on racial equity in all our work—and to • In Minneapolis, through a historical process that push ourselves to imagine the type of transformational eliminated racially exclusive single-family zoning change necessary to chart a new path forward. laws. In the ways our members have organized together with fast-food and domestic workers, Sincerely, predominantly women of color. LOCAL PROGRESS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE • In newly-elected, decarceral prosecutors committed to ending mass incarceration and replacing it with Councilmember Kris Burnett truly restorative justice. (Baltimore, MD) • We see it in the ways in which our members are building inclusive governance coalitions for long term power—like in Texas where workers, low- income communities of color and Local Progress members from across the state collectively beat all odds and won Paid Sick days for over a million people. Councilmember Greg Casar • We see it through the ways that members are (Austin, TX) organizing and partnering to shift the priorities of our government, like in Durham, North Carolina where organizers and activists worked hand-in- hand with the city council to ensure that funds to promote community safety were put into increasing wages for low-wage workers rather than policing, Councilmember at-Large criminalization and incarceration. Helen Gym (Philadelphia, PA) This type of change is only possible when we em- brace a new way of governing and new models of public leadership. We can see it in the hundreds of inspiring candidates—young people, people of color, women, LGBTQ candidates... a coalition of people until recently considered “unelectable”—running and winning on bold platforms and governing in new ways grounded in their Councilmember Brad Lander (New York, NY) own lived experiences. The work you are doing helps us imagine what new models for equitable, inclusive, and transformative governance might look like and achieve. Added up together, it points the way through this dark moment.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 5 THE AGENDA

Event Summary PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES • WEDNESDAY, JULY 24

9:00am–3:00pm Progressive Governance Academy: New Elected Richard Officials Training

11:00am–4:00pm Local Progress Board Meeting

3:30pm–7:00pm Women’s Caucus: Skills Workshop

THURSDAY, JULY 25

8:00am–2:00pm Women’s Caucus: Policy Solutions to Address the Nicolet Reproductive Justice Crisis (*Open to all members who identify as women and prior RSVP required)

2:30pm–6:00pm Local Site Visits

8:00pm ‘Dolores’ Movie screening

FRIDAY, JULY 26

8:00am–9:00am Breakfast & Registration

9:00am–10:00am PLENARY: Welcome to Michigan • Moderator: Councilmember Raquel Castañeda-López (Detroit, MI) • Commissioner Betsy Coffia (Grand Traverse County, MI) • Branden Snyder, Executive Director (Detroit Action, formerly Good Jobs Now) • Nayyirah Shariff, Director (Flint Rising)

10:00am–10:45am PLENARY: State of the Network: A Year in Review Mackinac Ballroom • Moderator: Councilmember At-Large Helen Gym (Philadelphia, PA)

10:45am–11:30am BREAK & GROUP PHOTO

6 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 11:30am–1:30pm PLENARY: Equity, Justice, Power: Our Leadership, Mackinac Ballroom Our Responsibility • Opening Remarks: Councilmember Brad Lander (New York, NY) • Moderator: Kim Freeman-Brown, President (KFB Consulting, LLC) • Councilmember Phillipe Cunningham (Minneapolis, MN) • Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephanie Morales (Portsmouth, VA) • Ariel Guerrero, Co-Founder & Principal , Trainer, Facilitator (O&G Racial Equity Collaborative)

1:30pm–2:30pm LUNCH Mackinac Ballroom

3:00pm–7:00pm Taking It To The Streets: Detroit’s Fights Are All Of Our Fights! Action and Block Party (Attendance optional, meet outside of Mackinac Ballroom to walk to action)

2:30pm–4:00pm Breakout sessions #1 • Governing From The Minority Joliet A • Immigrants Under Attack: Localities as a First Line of Defense Joliet B • Building Progressive Power Across Your State Marquette A • Proactive Strategies to Preserve and Produce Affordable Housing Marquette B

4:00pm–4:30pm BREAK

4:30pm–6:00pm Breakout sessions #2 • Getting On Your Count for 2020 Joliet A • School Safety: From Student Vision to District Policy Joliet B (** for school board members) • Policies for Gender Equity Marquette A • Building Organized Power with Working People Marquette B • Budgets as Moral Documents Nicolet A

6:30pm–8:00pm Local Progress Reception Cadillac

8:00pm Dinner on your own Explore the charms of Detroit on your own, or join an informal caucus dinner.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 7 SATURDAY, JULY 27

8:00am–9:00am Breakfast Mackinac Ballroom

State and Cohort Meetings • Florida Marquette B • New York Nicolet A • North Carolina Marquette A • Texas Joliet A • Wisconsin Joliet B • School Board Cohort Meeting Nicolet B

9:00am–10:30am PLENARY: Freedom to Thrive: Redefining Public Safety Mackinac Ballroom • Opening remarks: Jennifer Epps-Addison, Network President & Co-Executive Director (Center for Popular Democracy)

Moderators: Tracey Corder, Director of Federal Action and Racial Justice (Center for Popular Democracy) and Kumar Rao, Justice Transformation Director (Center for Popular Democracy) • Dr. Amanda Alexander, Executive Director (Detroit Justice Center) • Mayor Pro Tem Jillian Johnson (Durham, NC) • Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephanie Morales (Portsmouth, VA) • Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (Chicago, IL)

10:30am–11:00am BREAK

11:00am–12:30pm Breakout sessions #3 • Equity & Inclusion: Government Reflecting Community Joliet B • Getting Your Story Told: Media Training Lab Marquette A • Protecting Renters and Low-Income Homeowners Joliet A • Disrupting Mass Criminalization through Local Decriminalization Nicolet A • Climate Justice: Creating a Local Green New Deal Nicolet B • Inclusive Governance: Developing the Next Generation of Marquette B Elected Leaders

12:30pm–1:30pm LUNCH

1:30pm–2:30pm PLENARY: Working Towards Our Collective Liberation Mackinac Ballroom • Opening remarks: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo (Houston, TX) • Moderator: Karundi Williams, Executive Director (re:power) • Councilmember Greg Casar (Austin, TX) • Kyra Greene, Executive Director (Center on Policy Initiatives) • Maurice Mitchell, National Director (Working Families Party)

2:30pm–3:00pm BREAK

8 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 3:00pm–4:30pm Breakout sessions #4 • Red for Ed: Fighting for Fair Wages on the School Level Nicolet B • Food Justice—Access, Affordability, Labor, and Procurement Nicolet A • Toward Equitable Development, not just Economic Development Marquette B • Reclaiming the Common Good and Resisting Privatization Joliet B • State Interference: The Coordinated Threat on Communities of Color Joliet A • Reform/Transform: Analyzing Your Local Policing Policies Marquette A

4:30 pm–6:00 pm Equity.Justice.Power. Closing Reception (Cash Bar) Outside breakout rooms

5:00 pm–6:00 pm Muslim Arab and South Asian Leadership Meeting (By Invite Only) Joliet A

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 9 2019 National Convening • Full Agenda Local Progress (LP) is a project of the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD). We are hosting the 2019 LP convening at the same time as CPD’s People’s Convention: Our Vision, Our Future, the 2019 CPD/A People’s Convention, to be held in Detroit, Michigan from July 25-27. The event will bring together over 1,700 grassroots leaders, organizers, movement artists, and leading national progressive voices for two days of transformative learning, action, and collective power-building. It will be held just a few blocks from the Local Progress convening. As such, we have created an opportunity for Local Progress members and CPD affiliates to join each other’s programming, as it reflects our commitment to working in partnership with the communities with whom we are working toward racial, social, and economic justice.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24

9:00am–3:00pm Progressive Governance Academy: New Elected Richard Officials Training

Participants will discuss successfully transitioning into elected office, frameworks for strategic decision-making grounded in a values-based approach, mapping and understanding power in their communities and maintaining and strengthening relationships both within and outside of government.

11:00am–4:00pm Local Progress Board Meeting

3:30pm–7:00pm Women’s Caucus Workshop Richard (*Open to all members who identify as women and prior RSVP required)

Part one of our Women’s Caucus training will focus on equipping members with the skills to tackle challenges around narrative, framing, and effectiveness while also giving them the tools to combat sexism, harassment, bullying, and intimidation. • Moderator: Danielle Adams, Southern Regional Coordinator (Local Progress) and Tarsi Dunlop, Policy and Program Manager (Local Progress) • Board Member Raaheela Ahmed (Prince George's County School Board, MD) • Treasurer Tishaura Jones (St. Louis, MO) • Beth Willon, Communications Director (Office of Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez) • Raffaella Medoro-Naurato, Stylist + Image Consultant (The Hometown Project)

10 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 THURSDAY, JULY 25

8:00am–2:00pm Women’s Caucus: Policy Solutions to Address the Reproductive Nicolet Justice Crisis (*Open to all members who identify as women and prior RSVP required)

Part two of the Women’s Caucus will focus on policy solutions and shared learning around Reproductive Justice and women’s health. We will hear from groups on the ground on the frontlines of the abortion access fight. Hear stories from within our network on our collective fight and strategy and lift up a campaign to end sexual harassment of workers in the fast food industry. Build bonds and camaraderie among members to strengthen the network, to support each other, and to connect members with policy resources to support their work back home in their communities. • Moderators: Danielle Adams, Southern Regional Coordinator (Local Prog- ress), Tarsi Dunlop, Policy and Program Manager (Local Progress), and Mercedes Fulbright, Texas State Coordinator (Local Progress) • Alderwoman Megan EIlyia Green (St. Louis, MO) • Treasurer Tishaura Jones (St. Louis, MO) • Board President Channel Powe (Balsz School District, AZ) • Gloria De Los Santos, Durham Director (Action NC) • Naomi Randolph, Senior Advisor (Action NC) • Danielle Atkinson, Founding Director (Mothering Justice) • Jenalyn Sotto, Senior Manager of Campaign and Digital Strategies (National Women’s Law Center) • Latarsha Smith, Fight for $15 Leader (Myrtle Beach, FL) • Bettie Douglas, Fight for $15 Leader (St. Louis, MO)

2:30pm–6:00pm Local Site Visits

In partnership with Detroit LP members and community-based organizations, we’ll visit and learn about some of the most innovative programs in Michigan.

8:00pm ‘Dolores’ Movie screening Nicolet

Film description: Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers’ unions with Cesar Chavez, her enor- mous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day, at 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change. Directed by Peter Bratt.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 11 FRIDAY, JULY 26

8:00am–9:00am Breakfast & Registration

9:00am–10:00am PLENARY: Welcome to Michigan Mackinac Ballroom

The city of Detroit and Michigan have a rich history of struggle and victories that have shaped the state and our entire country. The people’s history and present-day movement organizing of Detroit and Michigan can give us much to reflect on. This session will provide local elected officials and organizers from the state an opportunity to share their vision for local governance and organizing grounded in equity and justice. • Moderator: Councilmember Raquel Castañeda-López (Detroit, MI) • Commissioner Betsy Coffia (Grand Traverse County, MI) • Branden Snyder, Executive Director (Detroit Action, formerly Good Jobs Now) • Nayyirah Shariff, Director (Flint Rising)

10:00am–10:45am PLENARY: State of the Network: A Year in Review Mackinac Ballroom

Local Progress has grown to nearly 1,000 members in 46 states plus D.C. Members of Local Progress are advancing the most innovative and progressive policies in our nation, and they’re providing a model for inclusive governance rooted in equity. From leveraging contract negotiations to expanding accountability in policing to ensuring more stability for workers in the service industry to enshrining local policies that address climate change, LP members at all levels of local government are leading the most inspirational work in our country. This lunchtime session will highlight some of the year’s most notable accomplishments our vision for the future. • Moderator: Councilmember At-Large Helen Gym (Philadelphia, PA)

10:45am–11:30am BREAK & GROUP PHOTO

11:30am–1:30pm PLENARY: Equity, Justice, Power: Our Leadership, Mackinac Ballroom Our Responsibility

When policy making is grounded in equity, local government leaders have the potential to advance more just, participatory, and inclusive governance. All too often, though, local policies have served as tools of exclusion, driving inequality, marginalizing and disenfranchising people of color, and creating barriers to full participation in society and democracy. Local Progress and its members share a deep commitment to using policy, budgets, and governmental process to address racial disparities that continue to exist in our communities. The purpose of this interactive session is to explore ways in which policy has shaped and contributed to a system that reinforces racial disparities, share members' personal experiences and challenges disrupting these systems.

12 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 We'll discuss how equity-focused approaches to policy can achieve better outcomes in all facets of policy making including housing, education, immigrant rights, policing, economic development, or any other aspect of local government that touches people's daily lives. • Opening remarks: Councilmember Brad Lander (New York, NY) • Moderator: Kim Freeman-Brown, President (KFB Consulting, LLC) • Councilmember Phillipe Cunningham (Minneapolis, MN) • Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephanie Morales (Portsmouth, VA) • Ariel Guerrero, Co-Founder & Principal, Trainer, Facilitator (O&G Racial Equity Collaborative)

1:30pm–2:30pm LUNCH Mackinac Ballroom

3:00pm–7:00pm Taking It To The Streets: Detroit’s Fights Are All Of Our Fights! Action and Block Party (Attendance optional, meet at outside of Mackinac Ballroom to walk to action)

Families across Detroit and across America are in crisis. Structural racism and corporate control of our government is exploding inequality, intensifying exploitation of our people, and blocking transformative policies. Detroit Action, CPD, and its affiliates from all across the country will transform the Spirit of Detroit Plaza into a North Star for our country by making the vision of the world we want to see come alive through art and activism, providing real solutions to the crisis we face.

2:30pm–4:00pm Breakout sessions #1

Governing From The Minority Joliet A

Across the nation, conservative majorities and the status quo culture of legislative bodies have blocked progressives from enacting policies that advance equity. Attendees will work through the steps of building power with their communities and holding the majority accountable while offering a visionary alternative through a solutions-oriented approach. • Moderator: State Senator Faith Winter (Colorado)

Immigrants Under Attack: Localities as a First Line of Defense Joliet B

Local governments are at the forefront of protecting immigrant communities in the face of over-policing, a cruel federal anti-immigrant agenda, and an administration seeking to increase the speed and scale of deportations. The Trump administration’s terrorizing of immigrants is deeply intertwined with the criminal legal system and requires local resources to accomplish its agenda. This session will look at the history of immigration policy, with a look forward to what localities can do to mitigate harmful federal and state policies and how to effectively mobilize a rapid response when needed. • Moderator: Julio Lopez, Co-Director of Community Dignity Campaigns (Center for Popular Democracy)

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 13 • Councilmember Vanessa Agudelo (Peekskill, NY) • Councilmember Pious Ali (Portland, ME) • Councilmember Javiera Caballero (Durham, NC) • Lena Graber, Staff Attorney (Immigrant Legal Resource Center- ILRC) • Juan Manuel Guzman, Advocacy and Policy Manager (United We Dream)

Building Progressive Power Across Your State Marquette A

Through Local Progress, we bring members into collective action alongside community, advocacy, and progressive movement partners. By working together across cities, towns, counties, and school boards, Local Progress members can accelerate policy progress at the local level, build power at the state level, and elevate issues to the national stage. Learn about the strategic campaigns that LP chapters are leading as well as interventions the network is making on key issues in federal policy. • Moderator: Councilmember M. Lorena González (Seattle, WA) • Councilmember Marion Porterfield (Schenectady, NY) • Commissioner Jenn Weaver (Hillsborough, NC)

Proactive Strategies to Preserve and Produce Marquette B Affordable Housing

Throughout our country’s history, policies related to zoning and housing financing have increased residential segregation while accruing significant value to wealthier, white homeowners. Too often, new residential development has continued this trend. And recently, new development pressures have also led to gentrification and displacement in low-income communities of color. This session will discuss strategies to preserve and produce new affordable housing to accommodate growth, with a strong focus on increasing equity. • Moderator: Councilmember Brad Lander (New York City, NY) • Councilmember Raquel Castañeda-López (Detroit, MI) • Maria Cole, President (Paragon Florida) • Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison (Minneapolis, MN) • Katie Goldstein, Senior National Organizer (Center for Popular Democracy)

4:00pm–4:30pm BREAK

4:30pm–6:00pm Breakout sessions #2

Getting On Your Count for 2020 Joliet A

Getting the census count right is critical—it will shape political representation, public policy and funding, private sector investments, as well as determine whose voice is heard at every level of our democracy. Investments and federal dollars allocated to local communities hang in the balance, allocated according to the population size and demograph-

14 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 ics as recorded in census data. inclusive democracy is also at stake. We know that the Trump Administration's widespread attempt to manip- ulate the census is part of a multi-pronged strategy to attack and erase immigrant communities and its needs, and according to NYT “advance Republican Party interests”, and its ability to control legislative bodies across the country for another decade. This session will examine the role of local elected officials in ensuring a full and complete Census count in 2020, including a conversation about working with local immigrant communities, a discussion of the timeline and technical aspects of what localities can do and strategies of using your public leadership and voice to support a fair and inclusive census count. • Moderator: Emma Greenman, Director of Voting Rights & Democracy (Center for Popular Democracy) • Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda (Seattle,WA) • Leo Murrieta, Director (Make the Road Nevada)

School Safety: From Student Vision to District Policy Joliet B (** for school board members)

Serving students is core to school board members. For many students of color, the system is deeply unequal and discriminatory. From funding, police presence, disciplinary policies, and access to resources and rich curriculum, students of color are denied the opportunities their white peers receive. This session is designed as a visioning and policy workshop. Youth organizers will ground us in their experiences and vision for an enriching and safe school climate, challenging local board members to respond with student-centered engagement to develop visionary and forward-thinking policies that will help create those realities for all young people—in their districts and across the country. The second half of the session will help board members workshop bold policy language to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, support and engage youth, and begin to build an organizing apparatus to advocate at the state and national level for such policy reforms. • Nia Arrington, Youth Leader, Youth Power Collective (OnePA) • Devene Jimenez-Mitchell, Youth Leader (Make the Road Nevada) • Board Member Moira Kaleida (Pittsburgh, PA) • Board Member Joe Luginbill (Eau Claire Public Schools, WI) • Tony Martinez, Youth Leader (Latinos Unidos Siempre) • Board Member Dr. Rosalind Osgood (Broward County Public Schools, FL) • Heavyn Remschneider, Youth Leader (Leaders Igniting Transformation)

Policies for Gender Equity Marquette A

Women are—and always have been—leading the way forward – in big cities and small towns, in every state of this nation, and in every nation in this world. Women have been and still are putting it all on the line. From every silence-breaker risking personal safety to shine a light on society’s deepest flaws to workers leading the charge for better wages and healthier workplaces, women have held their truth and shared their resilience so that we may, together, be better and more just.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 15 As we continue to face mounting threats to our bodily autonomy and safety, reproductive rights and access to healthcare, and paid family leave and equal pay for equal work, it is even more critical for us to come together to advocate for policies that empower women, girls, and working families. Our goal with “Gender Equity: Centering Women In Policy” is to use this space to uplift some of the most pressing issues affecting women, discuss bold policy solutions for radical change, and set the tone for an in-depth conversation we can take back to our communities. • Moderator: Jenalyn Sotto, Senior Manager of Campaign and Digital Strategies (National Women’s Law Center) • Board Member Korin Kirk (Binghamton City School District, NY) • Board President Channel Powe (Balsz School District, AZ) • Councilmember Candice Quarles (DeSoto, TX)

Building Organized Power with Working People Marquette B

Working people have defined 2019 by saying enough is enough. It’s been a year of collective action, a year of the strike, a year of women and workers of color changing what’s possible. Teachers from Los Angeles to North Carolina to West Virginia have walked out to defend public education. For-hire drivers launched an international work stoppage coinciding with Uber’s $90B initial public offering. Grocery workers in New England beat back austere cuts to win a fair contract with an eleven-day strike. First-of-their-kind campaigns for “just cause” policy are underway. Progressive local policymakers have played a role in all of these efforts. This session will highlight some of the most exciting and innovative worker organizing efforts from the past year and engage elected officials in a discussion of how to support workers organizing for power in their communities. • Moderator: Vice Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson (Milwaukee County, WI) • Jahaira Garcia, Organizing Committee Member (32BJ SEIU) • Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez (Chicago, IL) • Sage Wilson, Communications Director (Working Washington)

Budgets as Moral Documents Nicolet A

In line with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s notion of budgets as “moral documents,” local elected officials have a real opportunity through their governing power to guarantee living wages, allocate investments in underfunded programs in communities of color, and prioritize equitable development projects that empower their community’s most vulnerable. We can move toward more safe and prosperous communities where people have the freedom to thrive by viewing city and school board budgets as reflections of the value we place on people, not on the criminalization of poor people or displacement of communities of color. This session will discuss how to seize strategic and creative organizing opportunities to invest in the enrichment and restoration of communities through your local budget.

16 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 • Moderator: Alderwoman Maria Hadden (Chicago, IL) • Councilmember Carlos Menchaca (New York, NY) • Mariah Monsanto (BYP100 Durham)

6:30pm–8:00pm Local Progress Reception Cadillac

Join us to celebrate the tremendous work of Local Progress leaders who have taken bold actions throughout the year! Members from across the country will have the opportunity to be in community as we present this year's Network Builder Award and the Ady Barkan Progressive Champion Award.

8:00pm Dinner on your own

Explore the charms of Detroit on your own, or join an informal caucus dinner.

SATURDAY, JULY 27

8:00am–9:00am Breakfast Mackinac Ballroom

State and Cohort Meetings • Florida Marquette B • New York Nicolet A • North Carolina Marquette A • Texas Joliet A • Wisconsin Joliet B • School Board Cohort Meeting Nicolet B

9:00am–10:30am PLENARY: Freedom to Thrive: Redefining Public Safety Mackinac Ballroom

Over the last 30 years, at both the national and local levels, governments have dramatically increased their spending on policing, prisons, and systems of criminalization while drastically cutting investments in necessary infrastructure and slowing investment in social safety net programs. Indeed, over-policing and mass incarceration have been widely discredited, and through voter disenfranchisement, unconscio- nable levels of spending on policing and prisons, and systemic state violence, they have wrecked severe damage to our democracy.

Given their roles, local elected officials have a particularly critical per- spective and responsibility for public safety and community stability. What is needed now more than ever is a holistic and comprehensive public safety agenda that centers public health and sweeping investments (such as housing, healthcare, youth services, infrastructure, and jobs) into communities nationwide, alongside mass decarceration and decriminalization. Redefining public safety as about community investment rather than penal systems is key to ensuring that all of us, and particularly communities of color, can have the freedom to thrive.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 17 • Opening remarks: Jennifer Epps-Addison, Network President & Co-Executive Director (Center for Popular Democracy) • Moderators: Tracey Corder, Director of Federal Action and Racial Justice (Center for Popular Democracy) and Kumar Rao, Justice Transformation Director (Center for Popular Democracy) • Dr. Amanda Alexander, Executive Director (Detroit Justice Center) • Mayor Pro Tem Jillian Johnson (Durham, NC) • Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephanie Morales (Portsmouth, VA) • Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (Chicago, IL)

10:30am–11:00am BREAK

11:00am–12:30pm Break sessions #3

Equity & Inclusion: Government Reflecting Community Joliet B

Representation in staffing, services, programs is key to constituents having a positive experience with local government. Localities across the country have been making an intentional effort to ensure that they are reducing inequities in government services, programs, contracting, and hiring. This conversation will focus on existing best practices and policies as well as how LP members can go beyond representation and specific hires to focus on creating systems that will impact long-term change and center equity as a core value of the jurisdiction. • Moderator: Gordon Goodwin, Midwest Region Project Manager, (Government Alliance on Race and Equity) • Councilmember Andrea Jenkins (Minneapolis, MN) • Commissioner Gail Johnson (Gainesville, FL) • Commissioner Carmelyn P. Malalis (NYC Commission on Human Rights, NY)

Getting Your Story Told: Media Training Lab Marquette A

In a news media landscape increasingly defined by scarcity—especially in communities of color and non-major cities—it is crucial for progressive leaders to have a strategy and goals for getting their story told. We are thrilled to be joined for this session by two acclaimed Detroit reporters who will share their experience covering local government. This workshop and training will equip Local Progress members with strategies and tools to tell the story of their policy priorities and empower the communities they represent. Participants will review the nuts and bolts of media relations, including how to earn media coverage, build relationships with reporters, and conduct interviews. Participants will get the opportunity to workshop media strategy so that they leave the training lab with concrete next steps and guidance. • Allie Gross, Business Reporter (Detroit Free Press) • Joanna Klonsky, President (Joanna Klonsky Communication Strategies)

18 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 • Supervisor Alissa Schafer (Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District, FL) • Kat Stafford, Detroit Government Reporter (Detroit Free Press)

Protecting Renters and Low-Income Homeowners Joliet A

The renter protection space often feels impossible; most of the policies feel like you’re nibbling around the edges rather than profoundly trans- forming the unjust and racist housing system. However, depending on your local housing climate, you may have an opportunity to design and begin a progressive long-term housing strategy to protect renters, tenants and low-income homeowners. You might even be able to win some short-term victories like the ones in Minneapolis and Portland. Local victories and efforts can also support and help drive state-wide housing campaigns like New York’s recent rent control. Finally, we will explore the potential of nationalizing the affordable housing crisis, inclusive of renter protections. The purpose of this session is to ground participants in the racial dynamics of the affordable housing crisis and to simultaneously inspire members to take progressive forward-looking steps towards bold and equitable solutions to the affordable housing crisis at all levels. • Moderator: Dianne Enriquez, Director of Campaigns for Community Dignity, (Center for Popular Democracy) • Trustee Quantel Bazemore (Ossining, NY) • Councilmember Lisa Bender (Minneapolis, MN) • Alder Cynthia Brock (Ithaca, NY) • Commissioner Chloe Eudaly (Portland, OR) • Katie Goldstein, Senior National Organizer, (Center for Popular Democracy) • County Legislator Christopher Johnson (Westchester, NY)

Disrupting Mass Criminalization through Local Decriminalization Nicolet A

The massive divestment from communities of color historically coin- cided with the U.S. government’s “War on Drugs” and “tough on crime” policies, which are some of the newest linchpins in the nation’s long history of social control and criminalization of marginalized people. Several federal laws passed in the 1980s and 1990s increased penalties for criminal offenses and funneled trillions of dollars to police and prisons without creating any mechanisms to ensure accountability. Local and state governments also criminalized Black and Latinx communities through an onslaught of new criminal statutes that criminalized formerly noncriminal behavior, from violations of park rules to “excessive noise,” and empowered police to arrest people for minor infractions. This session will discuss the impacts of these policies and how localities can decriminalize low-level and administrative offenses. • Moderator: Tracey Corder, Director of Federal Action & Racial Justice (Center for Popular Democracy) • Councilmember Wes Bellamy (Charlottesville, VA)

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 19 • Denzel Campbell, Community Organizer (BYP100 Detroit) • Katharine Celentano, Policy Coordinator (Drug Policy Alliance)

Climate Justice: Creating a Local Green New Deal Nicolet B

The Green New Deal calls on our federal government to make bold investments and policy interventions to save our planet for the present and generations to come. Local governments do not have to wait to act. Local visionary leaders can take a stand on climate justice now. Indeed, we must make policy interventions based on the inequitable response to disasters for frontline communities, climate gentrification, adverse health outcomes in communities of color due to harmful zoning, planning and disinvestment, oil and gas impacts, or the undue burden of environmental degradation on women, especially women of color. Leaders can, in partnership with unions and worker organizations, create good green jobs with strong worker protections. Join us as we take a stand for our communities and our planet. In this interactive session, we will discuss what it would take to design a plan for localities to move their own Green New Deal agenda to protect our future. • Moderator: Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells (Culver City, CA) • Councilmember Jay Banks (New Orleans, LA) • Councilmember Cyndi Nguyen (New Orleans, LA) • Former Supervisor Nancy Metayer (Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District, FL) • Councilmember Mike O’Brien (Seattle, WA)

Inclusive Governance: Developing the Next Generation of Marquette B Elected Leaders

The enthusiasm of the 2018 elections is, in part, because of the diversity of those elected in this cycle. Ensuring a more representative democracy requires electing more women and people of color, yet women and candidates of color face more challenges, both unforeseen and expected. This session will focus on how to recruit more women and people of color to run for office in the first place, how to identify opportunities to think about their progression to higher office, and how to protect gains made by ensuring a robust successive cohort of leaders. • Moderator: Councilmember Vanessa Agudelo (Peekskill, NY) • Ari Kamen, Senior Political Strategist (Working Families Party) • Trustee Arti Walker-Peddakotla (Oak Park, IL)

12:30pm–1:30pm LUNCH

1:30pm–2:30pm PLENARY: Working Towards Our Collective Liberation Mackinac Ballroom

Our current system is based on creating and perpetuating inequities, which intentionally harm communities of color. Power is a finite resource; as such, those with power have traditionally seen it as some- thing that cannot be shared. To truly change the lives of our communities, it’s imperative for those who hold institutional power to think

20 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 about how to work in authentic partnership with historically excluded and marginalized communities. This plenary will discuss our vision for collaborative governance and provide some examples of how we can Nicolet B work together towards collective liberation. • Opening remarks: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo (Houston, TX) • Moderator: Karundi Williams, Executive Director (re:power) • Councilmember Greg Casar (Austin, TX) • Kyra Greene, Executive Director (Center on Policy Initiatives) • Maurice Mitchell, National Director (Working Families Party)

2:30pm–3:00pm BREAK Nicolet B

3:00pm–4:30pm Breakout sessions #4

Red for Ed: Fighting for Fair Wages on the School Level

Across the U.S., systemic underpayment of teachers and school employees have prompted strikes, protests, and movements for increased pay. As a result, some school districts have gone above and beyond in ensuring fair wages for their school system employees. Hear directly from school board members who have been active in the movement, on how they got it done. This session is brought to you by New American Leaders. • Moderator: Board Member Raaheela Ahmed (Prince George's County School Board, MD) • (Tempe Union High School District, AZ) Marquette B Board Member Brian Garcia • Trustee Armando Rodriguez (Canutillo ISD, TX)

Food Justice—Access, Affordability, Labor, and Procurement Nicolet A

Access to healthy food is a right and a critical component to thriving communities. But communities of color are frequently denied access to healthy food while also being exploited as the primary source of labor needed to feed our communities. Local government plays a crucial role in ensuring that working people can share in the abundance and prosperity of our food system throughout the entire supply chain, from those growing our food to those delivering groceries through phone apps. This session will include discussion on policy areas including procurement in government for schools and jails, creative practices and programs, zoning for healthy food access, and ensuring that food workers have dignified working conditions. • Moderator: Former Supervisor Nancy Metayer (Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District, FL) Mackinac Ballroom • LaQuita Honeysucker, Legislative Director (United Food and Commercial Workers International Union) • Trustee Candace Valenzuela (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD) • Supervisor and Vice Chair Jenna Austin Wadsworth (Wake County Soil and Water Conservation District, NC)

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 21 Toward Equitable Development, not just Economic Development Marquette B

The traditional economic development paradigm prioritizes above all else job creation, growing the tax base, and attracting firms with incen- tives. This paradigm has widened economic inequality and the racial wealth gap by catering to the affluent, disregarded the needs of communities of color, and dedicated precious resources to corporate subsidies. A development approach rooted in equity, by contrast, has different priorities. Equitable development relies on community empowerment, sustainable growth, democratic decision-making, and inclusive economic opportunity anchored by good union jobs and equity in hiring. An equitable development model can empower and ensure opportunity for those left out of our country’s prosperity. This interactive breakout session will offer local elected officials the chance to workshop a vision and practice of equitable development strategies while sharing their successes and experiences on development issues. • Moderator: Ari Schwartz, Program and Communications Manager (Local Progress) • Maurice BP-Weeks, Co-Executive Director (Action Center on Race and the Economy) • Neidi Dominguez, National Strategic Campaigns Coordinator (International Union of Painters and Allied Trades) • City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper (Tulsa, OK) • Councilmember Omar Narvaez (Dallas, TX)

Reclaiming the Common Good and Resisting Privatization Joliet B

Everywhere we look, we witness areas where our public goods are at risk of being co-opted by private for-profit entities. The reality is that private investors see a great deal of money to be made off of the public good. This session will focus on three key areas: public education, public infrastructure, and public services with two objectives. First, to empower local elected officials with the knowledge to identify potential privatization efforts at the outset, and analyze their potentially devastating impact on city finances and community resources, as well as the quality of the public good itself. Second, to pose questions and pointedly challenge the so-posed benefits of privatization by assessing the long-term budgetary impacts and loss of public control over community assets. • Moderator : Shar Habibi, Research and Policy Director (In the Public Interest) • Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green (St. Louis, MO) • Councilmember at-Large Helen Gym (Philadelphia, PA) • Councilmember Bill Henry (Baltimore, MD) • Alderman Scott Waguespack (Chicago, IL)

22 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 State Interference: The Coordinated Threat on Communities of Color Joliet A

Local jurisdictions are the centers of innovation advancing equitable, diverse, and inclusive policies. More aggressive and coordinated efforts by predominantly white state legislatures have overturned ballot initiatives, limited local anti-discrimination efforts, and systematically stripped away power and local democracy from cities, counties, and school boards to perpetuate racial and economic inequality. State interference is a direct attack on communities of color. Join us for an in-depth conversation about state interference in local governance, case studies on how we can protect local democracy, and messaging to support us in that fight. • Moderator: Francesca Menes, Florida State Coordinator (Local Progress) • Katie Belanger, Deputy Director (Local Solutions Support Center) • Councilmember Greg Casar (Austin, TX) • Commissioner Joshua Simmons (Coral Springs, FL)

Reform/Transform: Analyzing Your Local Policing Policies Marquette A

For too long, communities across the country have lived with harmful policing practices and a punitive legal system that relies heavily on the criminalization of communities of color, rather than on practices we know make communities safer: crime prevention, restorative practices, and investment in health, recreation and education. Increased spending on policing does not make communities of color feel safer and redefining public safety is critical in thinking about how to reform police practices with a long view toward transformational change. We designed the Local Progress Reform/Transform toolkit to provide members with a set of best practices to evaluate against their localities’ current policies in 12 areas ranging from independent oversight and data and transparency to use of force, demilitarization, ICE collaboration, and more. The toolkit encourages local elected officials to reform the practices within their purview and also to explore the role of policing in an overall plan to increase safety in our communities. This session will examine those strategies, such as investigating disparities in local spending between police budgets and programming and services that promote community safety (health care, education, jobs, youth development, and housing). • Moderator: Mayor Pro Tem Jillian Johnson (Durham, NC) • Councilmember Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN) • Councilmember Kate Harrison (Berkeley, CA) • Kumar Rao, Justice Transformation Director (Center for Popular Democracy)

4:30 pm–6:00 pm Equity.Justice.Power. Closing Reception (Cash Bar) Outside breakout rooms

Have a late flight or some time before hitting the road? Join us for a casual reflection on the conference.

5:00 pm–6:00 pm Muslim Arab and South Asian Leadership Meeting (By Invite Only) Joliet A

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 23 ELECTED OFFICIAL ATTENDEES

TITLE NAME PRONOUNS JURISDICTION

Vice President Levon Manzie He/Him/His Mobile AL

Councilmember Fred Richardson He/Him/His Mobile AL

School Board Member Cesar Aguilar He/Him/His Balsz School District AZ

School Board President Channel Powe She/Her/Hers Balsz School District AZ

School Board Member Katie Paetz She/Her/Hers Osborn Elementary School District AZ

Councilmember Jennifer Adams She/Her/Hers Tempe AZ

President Patrick Morales He/Him/His Tempe Elementary School Board AZ

Tempe Union High School Vice President Brian Garcia He/Him/His AZ District #213

Mayor Jesse Arreguin He/Him/His Berkeley CA

Councilmember Kate Harrison She/Her/Hers Berkeley CA

Councilmember Rigel Robinson He/Him/His Berkeley CA

Commissioner Soli Alpert He/Him/His Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board CA

Commissioner James Chang He/Him/His Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board CA

Commissioner Igor Tregub He/Him/His Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board CA

Councilmember Daniel Lee He/Him/Daniel Culver City CA

Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells She/Her/Hers Culver City CA

President Kelly Kent She/Her/Hers Culver City Unified School District CA

Deputy Mayor Consuelo Martinez She/Her/Hers Escondido CA

24 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 Councilmember Aisha Wahab She/Her/Hers Hayward CA

Hollywood United Neighborhood Renter's Representative Matt Wait He/Him/His CA Council

Director Norma Galindo She/Her/Hers Imperial County Irrigation District CA

Councilmember Shanelle Scales-Preston She/Her/Hers Pittsburg CA

Councilmember Melvin Willis He/Him/His Richmond CA

Supervisor Matt Haney He/Him/His San Francisco CA

Trustee Thea Selby She/Her/Hers San Francisco City College CA

Council Member at-Large Deborah Ortega She/Her/Hers Denver CO

Mayor Pro Tem Jamie Harkins She/Her/Hers Lafayette CO

Vice President Markus Batchelor He/Him/His DC State Board of Education DC

ANC Commissioner Gordon-Andrew Fletcher He/Him/His Washington DC

Councilmember David Grosso He/Him/His Washington DC

ANC Commission Chairman Tyrell Holcomb He/Him/His Washington DC

Councilmember Elissa Silverman She/Her/Hers Washington DC

ANC Commissioner James Harnett He/Him/His Washington DC

Councilmember at-Large Rysheema Dixon She/Her/Hers Wilmington DE

Commissioner Christina L. Romelus She/Her/Hers Boynton Beach FL

School Board Member Rosalind Osgood She/Her/Hers Broward County Public Schools FL

Broward Soil and Water Supervisor Alissa Schafer She/Her/Hers FL Conservation District

Councilmember at-Large Joshua Simmons He/Him/His Coral Springs FL

Councilmember at-Large Gail Johnson He/Him/His Gainesville FL

Vice Mayor Sabrina Javellana She/Her/Hers Hallandale Beach FL

Vice Mayor Chris Davis He/Him/His Opa-locka FL

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 25 County Commissioner Emily Bonilla She/Her/Hers Orange County FL

Commissioner Marlon Bolton He/Him/His Tamarac FL

Commissioner Mike Gelin He/Him/His Tamarac FL

Councilmember Anthony Dowling He/Him/His Village of Indiantown FL

Councilmember at-Large Yterenickia Bell She/Her/Hers Clarkston GA

School Board Member Jasmine Bowles She/Her/Hers Clayton County Public Schools GA

Griffin-Spalding County School Board Member R. Syntel Brown He/Him/His GA Public Schools

Alderperson Maria Hadden She/Her/Hers Chicago IL

Alderperson Matthew Martin He/Him/His Chicago IL

Alderpeson Carlos Ramirez-Rosa He/Him/His Chicago IL

Alderperson Rossana Rodriguez She/Her/Hers Chicago IL

Alderperson Byron Sigcho Lopez He/Him/His Chicago IL

Alderperson Jeanette Taylor She/Her/Hers Chicago IL

Alderperson Scott Waguespack He/Him/His Chicago IL

Alderperson Cicely Fleming She/Her/Hers Evanston IL

Trustee Arti Walker-Peddakotla She/Her/Hers Oak Park IL

Community Representative Zachary Koutsky He/Him/His Water's Elementary School IL

Council President David James He/Him/His Louisville Metro Council KY

Councilmember Jay H. Banks He/Him/His New Orleans LA

Councilmember Cyndi Nguyen She/Her/Hers New Orleans LA

Select Board Member Raul Fernandez He/Him/His Brookline MA

Councilor Ryan O'Malley He/Him/His Malden MA

Councilmember Zeke Cohen His/Him/His Baltimore MD

26 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 Councilmember Bill Henry He/Him/His Baltimore MD

Councilmember William Jawando He/Him/His Montgomery County MD

Councilmember Celina Benitez She/Her/Hers Mount Rainier MD

Prince George's County Public School Board Member Raaheela Ahmed She/Her/Hers MD Schools

Councilmember at-Large Pious Ali He/Him/His Portland ME

Trustee Tom Lenard He/Him/His Delhi Charter Township MI

Councilmember Raquel Castañeda-López She/Her/Hers Detroit MI

Council President Pro Tempore Mary Sheffield She/Her/Hers Detroit MI

County Commissioner Betsy Coffia She/Her/Hers Grand Traverse County MI

County Commissioner Derrell Slaughter He/Him/His Ingham County MI

Council President Kermit Williams He/Him/His Pontiac MI

Councilmember Alphonso Amos He/Him/His Port Huron MI

County Commissioner Katie Scott She/Her/Hers Washtenaw County MI

Council President Lisa Bender She/Her/Hers Minneapolis MN

Councilmember Steve Fletcher He/Him/His Minneapolis MN

Councilmember Alondra Cano She/Her/Hers Minneapolis MN

Councilmember Phillipe Cunningham He/Him/His Minneapolis MN

Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison He/Him/His Minneapolis MN

Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins She/Her/Hers Minneapolis MN

Alderperson Megan Ellyia Green She/Her/Hers St. Louis MO

Alderperson Christine Ingrassia She/Her/Hers St. Louis MO

Treasurer Tishaura Jones She/Her/Hers St. Louis MO

Alderperson Annie Rice She/Her/Hers St. Louis MO

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 27 Alderperson Cara Spencer She/Her/Hers St. Louis MO

Councilmember Lisa Clancy She/Her/hers St. Louis County MO

Mayor Pro Tempore Damon Seils He/Him/His Carrboro NC

Councilmember Vernetta Alston She/Her/Hers Durham NC

Councilmember at-Large Javiera Caballero She/Her/Hers Durham NC

Councilmember DeDreana Freeman She/Her/Hers Durham NC

Mayor Pro Tempore Jillian Johnson She/Her/Hers Durham NC

Mayor Pro Tempore Jenn Weaver She/Her/Hers Hillsborough NC

Mayor Alvena Heggins She/Her/Hers Salisbury NC

Wake County Soil & Water Conser- Vice-Chair Jenna Wadsworth She/Her/Hers NC vation District Wake County Soil & Water Conser- Supervisor Nervahna Crew She/Her/Hers NC vation District

School Board Member Daniel Bergeron He/Him/His Manchester Public Schools NH

Freeholder Balvir Singh He/Him/His Burlington County NJ

School Board Member Mussab Ali He/Him/His Jersey City Public Schools NJ

County Legislator Samuel Fein He/Him/His Albany County NY

School Board Member Korin Kirk She/Her/Hers Binghamton City School District NY

Supervisor Greg Young He/Him/His Fulton County NY

Alderperson Cynthia Brock She/Her/Hers Ithaca NY

Councilmember Brad Lander He/Him/His New York City Council NY

Councilmember Carlos Menchaca He/His/Him New York City Council NY

Councilmember Karen Mejia She/Her/hers Newburgh NY

Village Trustee Quantel Bazemore He/Him/His Ossining NY

Councilmember Vanessa Agudelo She/Her/Hers Peekskill NY

28 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 Councilmember Marion Porterfield She/Her/Hers Schenectady NY

County Legislator Catherine Borgia She/Her/Hers Westchester County NY

County Legislator Christopher Johnson He/Him/His Westchester County NY

School Board Member Mohamed Al-Hamdani He/Him/His Dayton Board of Education OH

Councilmember Marcus Madison He/Him/His Elyria OH

Township Trustee Aryeh Alex He/Him/His Franklin Township OH

Councilmember Chantel Raghu She/Her/Hers Oxford OH

Councilmember JoBeth Hamon She/Her/Hers Oklahoma City OK

Councilmember Nikki Nice She/Her/Hers Oklahoma City OK

Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper She/Her/Hers Tulsa OK

Councilor Eddy Morales He/Him/EL Gresham OR

Councilor Christine Lewis She/Her/Hers Metro Council OR

Commissioner Chloe Eudaly She/Her/Hers Portland OR

Councilmember Jordi Comas He/Him/His Lewisburg Borough PA

Mayor Matt Shorraw He/Him/His Monessen PA

Councilmember at-Large Helen Gym She/Her/Hers Philadelphia PA

Councilmember Isaiah Thomas He/Him/His Philadelphia PA

Councilmember Deborah Gross She/Her/Hers Pittsburgh PA

School Director Kevin Carter He/Him/His Pittsburgh Public Schools PA

School Director Pam Harbin She/Her/Hers Pittsburgh Public Schools PA

School Director Moira Kaleida She/Her/Hers Pittsburgh Public Schools PA

Commissioner Mark Pinsley He/Him/His South Whitehall Township PA

Mayor Marita Garrett She/Her/Hers Wilkinsburg PA

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 29 School Director Klara Brown She/Her/Hers Wilkinsburg School District PA

School Board Member Alexis Pipkins He/Him/His Florence School District SC

Nashville-Davidson County Councilmember Colby Sledge He/Him/His TN Metro Council

Councilmember Greg Casar He/Him/His Austin TX

Councilmember Natasha Harper-Madison She/Her/Hers Austin TX

Councilmember Tartisha Hill She/Her/Hers Balch Springs TX

Canutillo Independent Trustee Armando Rodriguez He/Him/His TX School District

Trustee Candace Valenzuela She/Her/Hers Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD TX

Councilmember Adam Bazaldua He/Him/His Dallas TX

Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano He/Him/His Dallas TX

Councilmember Omar Narvaez He/Him/His Dallas TX

Councilmember Casey Thomas, II He/Him/His Dallas TX

Trustee Karla Garcia She/Her/Hers Dallas Independent School District TX

Councilmember Candice Quarles She/Her/Hers DeSoto TX

Councilmember Alexsandra Annello She/Her/Ella El Paso TX

Commissioner David Stout He/Him/His El Paso County TX

Councilmember Shaunte Allen She/Her/Hers Glenn Heights TX

County Judge Lina Hidalgo She/Her/Hers Harris County TX

Houston Independent Trustee Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca She/Her/Hers TX School District Houston Independent Trustee Anne Sung She/Her/Hers TX School District

Councilmember Brian Rowland He/Him/His Prairie View TX

Councilmember Shireen Ghorbani She/Her/Hers Salt Lake County UT

Councilmember Canek Aguirre He/Him/His Alexandria VA

30 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 Councilmember Mohamed Seifeldein He/Him/His Alexandria VA

Councilmember Wesley Bellamy He/Him/His Charlottesville VA

Commonwealth's Attorney Stephanie Morales She/Her/Hers Portsmouth VA

School Board Member Tamara Shewmake She/Her/Hers Portsmouth Public Schools VA

Councilor Teddy Waszazak He/Him/His Barre City VT

Councilmember Bryan Yambe He/Him/His Fife WA

Council Member at-Large M. Lorena González She/Her/Hers Seattle WA

Council Member at-Large Teresa Mosqueda She/Her/Hers Seattle WA

Councilmember Mike O'Brien He/Him/His Seattle WA

Councilmember De'Sean Quinn He/Him/His Tukwila WA

Council Vice President Clinton Anderson He/Him/His Beloit WI

School Board Member Megan Miller She/Her Beloit Board of Education WI

Councilmember Emily Berge She/Her/Hers Eau Claire WI

School Board President Joe Luginbill He/Him/His Eau Claire Area School District WI

Vice Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson She/Her/hers Milwaukee County WI

Alderperson John Tate He/Him/His Racine WI

Supervisor Nick Demske He/Him/His Racine County WI

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 31 PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION NETWORK NOMINEES

ADY BARKAN Progressive Champion Award “It is in these moments of defeat that hopeful, collective struggle retains its greatest power. I can transcend my dying body by hitching my future to yours. We can transcend the darkness of this moment by joining the struggles of past and future freedom fighters. That is how, when we reach the end of our lives and look back on these heady moments, we will find peace in the knowledge that we did our best.” —Ady Barkan

This year we are proud to dedicate our Progressive HERE ARE THIS YEAR’S NOMINEES: Champion award to a real hero—Local Progress’s found- LISA BENDER ing director Ady Barkan. In 2016, Ady was tragically diagnosed with ALS, an incurable terminal illness. By (Minneapolis, MN) finding courage in solidarity, by refusing to give up in the "In a bold move to address its affordable- face of the harshest personal conditions, and through housing crisis and confront a history of his boundless strategic creativity, Ady has inspired hun- racist housing practices, Minneapolis dreds of thousands of people in the struggle for justice. Mercifully, the vast majority of us are not called to has decided to eliminate single-family Ady’s level of courage and bravery. But we are blessed zoning, a classification that has long to be together with so many remarkable leaders, who perpetuated segregation…As cities across take inspiration from Ady’s courage and brilliance and the country contend with an affordable- carry it forward on the ground every day. housing crisis that has led to gentrification This award, which is nominated and voted on by and homelessness, few have been willing our membership, recognizes leaders demonstrating to take on single-family zoning, a way unusual courage in confronting powerful interests and celebrates the ability of leaders to organize and bring of living that is fiercely protected by people together so that our “hopeful, collective struggle neighborhood groups.” retains its greatest power.” —NYT: Minneapolis, Tackling Housing Crisis and Inequity, Votes to End Single-Family Zoning (http://bit.ly/LisaBenderMN)

32 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 In her first term, Lisa In 2016, landlords filed 2.3 million evictions in the Bender successfully pushed US and 38 percent of all renter households were rent bur- to raise the minimum wage dened—spending more than 30% of income on housing. and pass earned sick time While historically this issue has largely been perceived in the City of Minneapolis, as a problem unique to large high-cost cities, a growing fought for and won capital national movement and body of research is shifting budgeting processes cen- that narrative and bringing to light the fact that renter tered on racial equity, and housing instability impacts cities, counties, towns, and pursued a series of bills to increase pedestrian and bike villages across our country. infrastructure in the city. Lisa was elected City Council In Ossining, NY—a village of 25,000 people north of President in 2018 following an election that swept in one New York City—renters make up 51% of households and of the nation’s most progressive city councils. 60% of those tenants are rent-burdened. In September During her first term, she also served as the Chair of of 2018, Trustees John Codman III, Omar Herrera, and the Zoning and Planning Committee where her crucial Quantel Bazemore took the bold step to opt Ossining work, including a three-year community engagement into the New York State rent stabilization program, process including hundreds of meetings and events, set providing tenant protections to over 1,500 families. the table for the passage of the groundbreaking Min- While ultimately, John was defeated at the polls, and neapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan this past winter. the policy was partially repealed by the Mayor and a new The plan will abolish exclusionary single family zoning incoming board, Omar and Quantel were undeterred and in a bold confrontation of the city’s history of racially continued to work closely with community groups and segregated housing. The plan, which also incorporates Local Progress members to advocate for the successful inclusionary zoning in conjunction with citywide work passage of landmark state legislation. This new state on tenant protections, is being celebrated as one of the law strengthens existing tenant protections for almost boldest and most comprehensive approaches to munic- 1 million rent-regulated apartments in local commu- ipal housing policy in the country. nities who have opted in, and greatly expands tenant QUANTEL BAZEMORE, JOHN CODMAN III, protections for areas of the state outside of the metro AND OMAR HERRERA NY area, permanently ensconcing renter protection legislation into Empire State Law. (Ossining, NY) “This summer, the Hudson Valley Village of Ossining has become a proving ground…At stake are about 1,400 apartments, which would constitute the largest expansion of rent stabilization in New York since the 1970s.” —Curbed: The fight for universal rent control in New York (http://bit.ly/OssiningTrio)

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 33 TERESA MOSQUEDA In her first term in the (Seattle, WA) Seattle City Council, Teresa Mosqueda has led like a true “In her first several months on the council, progressive champion, not Mosqueda proposed a plan to give surplus just in her work in Seattle city land to affordable-housing developers, but across the country. In instead of selling it to the highest bidder; addition to passing legis- cast one of just two votes against repealing lation protecting domestic the “head tax,” which would have paid for workers—establishing minimum wages, rest breaks, and bargaining power for a largely women of color workforce housing and homeless services; passed new historically excluded from labor protections—Teresa has city protections for domestic workers; and also demonstrated particular bravery in challenging stuck her neck out as a high-density housing corporate power in our democracy and connecting our advocate at a time when a revanchist fights across cities. Teresa worked tirelessly to pass a neighborhood movement is ascending. progressive business tax to fund homelessness programs Rarely has a City Council freshman taken in the city and remained steadfast in supporting the pro- a mandate and run with it quite as hard as gram when Amazon and other corporations threatened the city, resulting in the repeal of the tax. Recognizing Mosqueda.” the need to build a more connected national movement, —Seattle Magazine: Seattle’s Most Influential Teresa has traveled to New York City, Northern Virginia, People 2018: Seattle City Councilmember, Teresa and Nashville to speak with local elected officials and Mosqueda (http://bit.ly/TeresaMosqueda) grassroots community organizations contending with Amazon’s arrival. This took courage and moral clarity, and she received criticism back home for it. She continues to lead on issues of affordable housing, land use, and wealth inequality, including speaking out about the need for the wealthiest corporations to fund solutions to inequality.

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VANESSA AGUDELO DR. AMANDA ALEXANDER Councilperson • Founding Executive Peekskill, NY Director • Detroit Justice Center @VanessaBAgudelo The Detroit Justice Center is a move- A proud first-genera- ment lawyering organization that works tion Colombian-American, alongside communities to create economic Vanessa Agudelo is a local opportunities, transform the justice system, Hudson Valley organizer and promote equitable and just cities. Since with a passion for empowering communities to engage opening its doors in April 2018, the Detroit Justice Center in local government and create potent change from the has provided life-changing legal services to hundreds of bottom up. With a background in environmental activ- clients and earned a reputation as a promising source of ism, she became the youngest person ever to be elected innovation in the criminal justice field. in the city of Peekskill at 25. Vanessa currently works Originally from Michigan, Dr. Alexander has worked for New York Immigration Coalition as their Hudson at the intersection of racial justice, social movements, Valley Member Engagement Manager. and community development in Detroit, New York, and RAAHEELA AHMED South Africa for over 15 years. She is an Echoing Green Fellow, Soros Justice Fellow, Fulbright-Hays Scholar, School Board Member, and 2018 Law for Black Lives Legal Innovator Fellow. Dr. District 5 • Prince George's Alexander is a Senior Research Scholar at the University County Public Schools, of Michigan Law School and serves on the board of the Maryland Center for Constitutional Rights and the James and Grace @RaaheelaAhmed Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership. Raaheela Ahmed is the She holds a JD from Yale Law School, PhD in history from elected board member for Columbia University, and a BA from Harvard College. the Prince George's County Board of Education, Dis- trict 5, representing over 80,000 people in Maryland. PIOUS ALI In 2012, this lifelong Prince Georgian, and product of Councilor at- Large • Portland, ME public schools, first ran for office as an 18-year old- un @piousali derdog and anti-establishment figurehead. Outside of Pious Ali, a Youth and Community En- the board, Raaheela serves as the Manager of Leadership gagement Specialist at the University of Programs for New American Leaders (NAL). NAL is Southern Maine (USM)’s Cutler Institute a national organization focused on training first- and for Health and Social Policy has spent the second-generation immigrants to run for office, and better part of his career focused on commu- supporting them in elected service. She manages the nity engagements by creating dialogue across cultural, nearly 500-member strong elected officials' network ethnic, socioeconomic and faith-based barriers. Pious with the organization. is the first African-born Muslim-American to be elected to a public office in Portland, becoming a member of the city’s elected Board of Public Education in 2013 and the City Council in 2016. A native of Ghana, Pious migrated to the United States (NY) in 2000, and has called Maine his home for the past decade.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 35 DANIELLE ATKINSON KATIE BELANGER Founding Director • Deputy Director • Local Mothering Justice Solutions Support Center Danielle Atkinson is the founding di- Katie Belanger is the rector of Mothering Justice, an organization Deputy Director of Local working to improve the lives of Michigan Solutions Support Center families by equipping the next generation (LSSC), an organization of mama activists. She has extensive ex- formed to coordinate and perience as a church-based, electoral, and community create opportunities to counter the misuse of preemp- organizer. Atkinson has worked with such organizations tion and strengthen home rule provisions that help local as America Votes, State Voices, Population Connection, democracies and communities. LSSC is developing, sup- and ACORN. She also helped to lead organizing efforts to porting and implementing nonpartisan strategies and raise the minimum wage in both Florida and Michigan. tactics designed to educate the public and policymakers Atkinson spearheaded the fight for earned paid sick on negative preemption efforts, repeal existing laws that time in Michigan. stifle local innovation and equity-promotion, inocu- In 2012, Atkinson founded Mothering Justice, a late local officials and government against attack and, grassroots leadership development and advocacy organi- where possible and appropriate, to affirm and strengthen zation. To date, Mothering Justice has trained more than home rule. 600 women and reached more than 100,000 mothers in WESLEY BELLAMY voter engagement efforts. Her work organizing mothers has won her the Michigan Organizer of the Year Award Councilmember • in 2013, the Black Women's Roundtable's SiSTAR Award Charlottesville, VA in 2015, the Michigan Women's Progressive Caucus' @DrWesBellamy Outstanding Women's Empowerment Revolutionary Dr. Wes Bellamy is the award in 2017 and the Annette Rainwater Grassroots youngest person ever to be Organizer of the Year in 2019. Atkinson received Bach- elected to the Charlottesville elor's degrees in political science and sociology from City Council. Wes’s primary Pfeiffer University and lives in Royal Oak, Michigan, focus is on improving the lives of those who lack resourc- with her husband Frank and their six children. es and positive role models in their lives. He strives to do this by sponsoring community days, coat drives, JAY H. BANKS and empowering as many youth as possible through Councilmember • H.Y.P.E. (Helping Young People Evolve). Started in De- New Orleans, LA @cmjayhbanks cember 2011, H.Y.P.E. is a boxing and mentoring program New Orleans City Councilman Jay H. serving boys and girls in the Charlottesville/Albemarle Banks is a proud native New Orleanian and a urban ring. He currently serves on the Charlottesville proud graduate of the Orleans Parish Public Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board and the School System, Dillard University in New Charlottesville Police Citizens Advisory Panel. He has Orleans, and Springfield College in Spring- also served on the Charlottesville Housing Advisory field, Massachusetts. Jay currently serves on both the Committee. Dr. Bellamy earned his Master’s Degree. Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Com- mittee and the Human Development Committee of the National League of Cities. Jay is a lifelong member of the New Zion Baptist Church. He is an active Shriner, an active Prince Hall Mason and a Life Member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

36 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 YTERENICKIA ‘YT” CYNTHIA BROCK BELL Councilmember - First Ward • Councilmember • Clark- Ithaca, NY son, GA • re:power / Cynthia Brock is a City Councilperson Progressive Governance representing the 1st Ward in Ithaca, New York. Academy Raised in Hawai’i, she is the first Asian-Amer- @bell4clarkston ican elected to Ithaca’s City Council and is Yterenickia ‘YT’ Bell is now in her third term. Cynthia’s priorities the Project Director of the Progressive Governance include racial, social and economic justice, water re- Academy (PGA), a newly launched pilot project between source management, and advocating for remediation of the State Innovation Exchange (SiX), Local Progress, legacy contaminated sites. Cynthia’s recent successes and re:power to build and develop the leadership and include obtaining state testing of a former dump/cur- governance skills of progressive state and local elected rent mobile home complex and establishing City law en- officials across the country. She is a native Georgian and forcement policies prohibiting participation in federal graduated from Georgia State University with a bach- immigration enforcement. elor’s degree in Criminal Justice and Political Science JAVIERA CABALLERO and a Masters in Social Work and Public Administration. Prior to joining the PGA, YT was the Deputy Director of a Councilmember • Durham, NC statewide public policy coalition table, Georgia Engaged, @JCparaDurham where she provided strategies and best practices for Javiera Caballero, is currently a Durham successful programmatic implementation. YT is also a City Council Member, and the first Latinx Councilwoman in the City of Clarkston where she works council member. During her time on the diligently to create an inclusive city. council, Javeria has worked diligently to support and implement progressive govern- LISA BENDER ment policies in Durham. She is currently President, Minneapolis campaigning to maintain her council seat. Javiera came City Council • to the United States as a child from Chile and has lived Minneapolis, MN in many communities across NC, as well as Chicago. @lisabendermpls She is a mom of three kids, a former educator, and an Lisa Bender is the Presi- education consultant. dent of the Minneapolis City GREG CASAR Council. She led the recent City Council adoption of Minneapolis 2040 Plan which Councilmember • Austin, Texas will guide growth and public investment for the next @gregcasar several decades, and prioritizes race equity and fight- Council Member Gregorio “Greg” Casar ing climate change. Her housing policy achievements represents District 4 on the Austin City also include authoring the City’s Inclusionary Zoning Council. Greg led the effort to pass the most policy as well as the City’s Accessory Dwelling Unit significant affordable housing bond in Texas ordinance. Currently, President Bender is working on history and authored Austin’s Freedom City a Renter Protection ordinance. This framework affirms policies, which have reduced low-level misdemeanor ar- the City’s commitment to advancing renter protections rests in his city by over 60%. He also passed Austin’s Fair and developing new tools to support affordability and Chance Hiring and Paid Sick Days ordinances which the stability in rental housing."We must ensure that our Austin American-Statesman called the “most progres- rental housing is safe and well-maintained while pro- sive local labor policy in Texas and the American South.” tecting renters from displacement,” said City Council President Lisa Bender.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 37 RAQUEL CASTAÑEDA-LÓPEZ its her mother for instilling a strong work ethic. Her first Councilmember • Detroit, MI organizing was as part of the successful statewide ballot @Raquel4Detroit referendum effort that repealed the original Emergency Raquel Castañeda-López is a Detroit Manager law in 2012. Of European descent and raced City Council Member representing District as white, she is learning how to show up for the work of 6, home to the city's most diverse commu- dismantling systems of oppression. Current organizing nities. First elected in 2013, she is the first work includes anti-racism, healthcare justice, migrant Latina ever to serve in this position. A social justice and reproductive justice in the northwestern lower worker by trade, Raquel worked in the non-profit sector Michigan region. and academia for over a decade before being recruited MARIA COLE to run for office. President, Paragon Florida • Paragon Florida, Inc. She founded Detroit's Immigration Taskforce, Dr. Maria Cole serves as the President of Paragon worked to create the City's first Office of Immigrant Florida and previously served as a Board member of the Affairs and piloted the Detroit ID program. Through organization. In this capacity, she has tirelessly advo- these initiatives, she has worked to help Detroit grow cated for the organization and its unrivaled benefit to as a diverse, inclusive, and global city. She currently the community. She has been able to capitalize on her serves on the board of New American Leaders, helping relationships with community members, organizational to recruit and train new Americans run for office. and business leaders, and local officials and advocate KATHARINE CELENTANO for the needs and resources Paragon can provide and Policy Coordinator • articulate a shared vision of community building. Drug Policy Alliance @kcelentano PHILLIPE Based in Upstate New York, Katharine CUNNINGHAM works with local governments and commu- Minneapolis City Council- nities to reverse the drug war. Appointed by man • City of Minneapolis Mayor Myrick to spearhead Ithaca's part- @CunninghamMPLS nership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, Phillipe M. Cunning- Katharine led prototyping of a first-in-the-nation safer ham (pronounced fil-LEAP) consumption space. She served as Interim Co-Project is the Minneapolis City Director for Ithaca LEAD, and previously worked for Law Councilmember representing the 4th Ward in North Enforcement Action Partnership, NYS Psychiatric In- Minneapolis. He is the first and currently only out trans stitute, the U.S. Senate, and Vermont Governor Shumlin man of color elected to office in the United States. Prior appointed her to a state prevention board. Additionally, to being elected and unseating a 50-year family politi- Katharine develops inter-movement coalitions focused cal dynasty in 2017, Councilman Cunningham served on holding post-carceral behavioral health systems ac- former Mayor Betsy Hodges as her Senior Policy Aide countable to patient consent. A graduate of Columbia for education, racial equity, and LGBTQ+ rights. He also University, Katharine sits on two alumni boards. previously worked with youth as a special education BETSY COFFIA teacher and youth worker for over 10 years. As a policy County Commissioner • Grand Traverse wonk and fierce community advocate, CM Cunningham’s County Board of Commissioners • We the goals are to break intergenerational cycles of poverty and People Michigan violence and build community wealth with Northsiders Betsy is a part of We the People Michi- already living in the community. His writings have been gan's rural organizing team. She is a politi- published in The Guide for White Women Who Teach cal strategist, BSW and former newspaper Black Boys and Millennial Compact with America. editor. She currently serves as the only fe- male-identifying county commissioner in Grand Traverse County and one of only two Democrats on the board. Betsy is proud to honor her working class rural roots, and cred-

38 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 JENNY DODSON national campaigns called Action NC. MISTRY She’s passionate about leadership training, commu- Senior Manager of nity organizing, building coalitions, public speaking, and Special Initiatives • working on campaigns. With encouragement from her National Institute for Re- friends and family, she worked on a national women’s productive Health campaign called Stand with Women and Families. This @jendmistry campaign encouraged Gloria to think out of the box, by @nirhealth pursuing issues that concern women and families, like Jenny Dodson Mistry is the Senior Manager of Spe- health care, paid leave, fair wages, affordable childcare, cial Initiatives at the National Institute for Reproductive pass city, county resolutions, and to push and implement Health, where she supports organizations engaged in policy changes for city-county and state employees. In local-level, proactive policy work, and is the lead re- her free time, she enjoys reading, hanging out with fam- searcher for NIRH’s Local Reproductive Freedom Index. ily and friends, speaking to other women’s groups, and She also oversees NIRH’s LARC Access Project. Jenny traveling with her family. volunteers with NJ SEEDS, which works to increase ac- MEGAN ELLYIA GREEN cess to quality education. Jenny holds a B.A. in Political Alderwoman • City of St. Louis Science from the University of Michigan and an MPH @meganellyia from Columbia University. Chloe Eudaly serves as a Commissioner NEIDI DOMINGUEZ for the City of Portland, OR. Bookseller, National Strategic Cam- publisher, writer, and activist, Chloe is only paign Coordinator • Inter- the eighth woman elected to the Portland national Union of Painters City Council in its history. Before taking her and Allied Trades (IUPAT) seat on Council, Chloe was the owner and operator of @neidid the independent press bookshop, Reading Frenzy (est. Neidi Dominguez is the 1994). For over a decade, she has devoted much of her National Strategic Cam- time and energy to advocating for disability rights, with paign Coordinator and Assistant to the General Presi- a focus on school and community inclusion. Chloe has dent for the International Union of Painters and Allied most recently turned her attention to tackle affordable Trades (IUPAT). Neidi is a long-time labor and immi- housing in Portland. grants’ rights organizer. She co-directed the CLEAN CHLOE EUDALY Carwash campaign in Los Angeles, California, which Commissioner • Portland City Council successfully unionized hundreds of car wash workers @ChloeEudalyPDX in Los Angeles County and changed working conditions Bookseller, publisher, writer, and activ- for thousands of low-wage immigrant workers. She was ist Chloe Eudaly is only the eighth woman also a key leader in the campaign to win Deferred Action to be elected to Portland City Council in for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). 100+ year history. Commissioner Eudaly has GLORIA DE LOS dedicated her time since election producing SANTOS some of the most innovative and progressive renter pro- Durham Director • tections in the country. She passed Relocation Assistance Action NC in her first 30 days in office and recently implemented a Gloria De Los Santos Fair Access in Renting policy package that dramatically moved to Durham NC from reforms screening criteria laws in Portland. Columbia SC. She is currently pursuing a career in Communication at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) and working for a community organization that addresses community issues on a city, county, state and

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 39 STEVE FLETCHER vocate for the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Council Member • City of Minneapolis Rights Center. @FletcherMpls Before starting law school, Brian was the Outreach Steve Fletcher was elected in 2017 to Coordinator for Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema. Brian represent Minneapolis Ward 3 - the creative has also mentored students through Inspire Arizona and economic heart of Minneapolis. Council and worked with the Human Rights Campaign Arizona Member Fletcher’s career has included work Steering Committee as the Political Co-chair. Brian is in the private sector, the arts, community passionate about ensuring all walks of life have a seat organizing, and academia—a breadth of experience that at the table. reflects the range of activity and interests in a Ward that GORDON F. GOODWIN includes parts of downtown, the University of Minne- GARE Midwest Manager sota, and the Northeast Arts District. • Race Forward / The Gov- KIMBERLY FREEMAN BROWN ernment Alliance on Race President • KFB Consulting, LLC and Equity @Kfreemanbrown Gordon F. Goodwin is Kimberly is President of KFBConsult- the Government Alliance ing, a boutique firm that supports progres- on Race and Equity (GARE) sive leaders, advocacy groups and political Midwest Regional Project Manager at the new Race organizations. Clients have utilized her Forward. The new Race Forward is the union of two expertise in organizational development, leading racial justice non-profit organizations: Race racial and gender equity and inclusion initiatives, lead- Forward and Center for Social Inclusion (CSI). ership development, and communications strategy. She Gordon brings significant experience to the new is the former Senior Advisor for Racial Equity, Inclusion Race Forward working with senior leadership teams and Leadership at CPD and was Executive Director of to help nonprofit organizations achieve mission and American Rights at Work, a national labor policy orga- program alignment. Gordon has worked for 30 years nization that merged with Jobs with Justice in 2012. with and for foundations, community development She is the author of three major reports on women of organizations and public : private sector consortia in color and leadership and has been quoted or published metropolitan and rural settings. Gordon has contribut- editorials in The New York Times, USA Today, Politico ed to poverty reduction and racial equity public policy and The Hill, and on the websites of Teen Vogue, Ebony, efforts with PolicyLink, Northwest Area Foundation, NBC News, Buzzfeed, and The Huffington Post. WK Kellogg Foundation, Foundation for the Mid South, CFED and The Aspen Institute. He is based in Saint BRIAN GARCIA Paul, MN. He is married, a proud parent of two adult Vice President • Tempe Union High children, a caretaker for two small dogs, and repairs School District Governing Board and rides motorcycles in his spare time. Brian Garcia is a member of the Pas- LENA GRABER cua Yaqui Tribe. Brian holds a Bachelor's degree in Global Studies and a Master of Staff Attorney • Immi- Legal Studies from Arizona State Universi- grant Legal Resource ty. Through his programs, Brian has worked Center @The_ilrc and studied in London, Paris, Milan, and Cuba. Lena is a national expert Brian currently serves as Vice President for the on immigration enforce- Tempe Union High School District Governing Board ment by local police. She has where he represents over 160,000 residents and 13,000 spent years working with or- students. Brian is a Juris Doctor student at the Sandra ganizers and lawyers around the country fighting unfair Day O'Connor College of Law. Additionally, Brian is a and often illegal detention of immigrants and pushing Fellow with the Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership program for pro-immigrant local policies. At the ILRC she spe- for statewide leadership. He also served as a Child Ad- cializes in supporting sanctuary campaigns around the

40 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 country, providing legal and strategic advice to local has been grounded in over 12 years of experience in organizers and elected officials. the government, non-profit, political and philanthropic KYRA R. GREENE space with organizations such as the National League of Cities (NLC), Lutheran Services in America (LSA), the Executive Director • Cen- Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), the National Hous- ter on Policy Initiatives ing Partnership (NHP) Foundation, political campaigns @kgreenecpi and the NYC Department of Education. Dr. Kyra R. Greene is the Ariel is a proud alumnus of Fordham University. He Executive Director at the is also a 2015 graduate of the National Urban Fellows Center on Policy Initiatives (NUF) program where he received his Master’s in Public in San Diego, CA. At CPI, she Administration from Baruch College School of Public has been a Research/Policy Analyst and Deputy Direc- Affairs. Ariel prides himself as a local government guy tor. Prior to CPI, Dr. Greene held faculty positions in with strong roots in advocacy, organizing and communi- the sociology department at San Diego State University ty mobilization. His work centers at the intersections of and Rider University. Her scholarship focused on social policy and practice within government and community inequality, social movements, and policy. Dr. Greene to train and support local leaders on how to apply/im- earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University plement a racial equity lens in their community. and her B.A. from Simon’s Rock. HELEN GYM ALLIE GROSS Councilmember At-Large • Journalist • Detroit Free Philadelphia, PA @HelenGymPHL Press @Allie_elisabeth @HelenGymAtLarge Allie Gross is a busi- Helen Gym is a longtime community ness reporter at the Detroit organizer, Vice Chair of Local Progress, and Free Press, where she covers the first Asian American woman on City development, housing af- Council. In her first term, she restored lo- fordability, and income in- cal control over the Philadelphia schools; established a equality. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill legal defense fund for renters facing eviction; and won School of Journalism, Allie joined the staff of the Free a Fair Workweek law, guaranteeing stable schedules for Press in 2017 after time as a staff writer at the Detroit 130,000 hourly workers. At LP, she leads efforts to defend Metro Times, a Ben Bagdikian Fellow at Mother Jones Sanctuary Cities, support school boards, and promote and a freelancer. Her work has appeared in VICE News, economic justice policies. Slate, The Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight, GOOD, Chalkbeat, and Jacobin. In 2017 Allie was named a Kresge Literary SHAR HABIBI Arts Fellow. Before pursuing a career in journalism, Allie Research and Policy Director • worked as a 5th-grade teacher in Detroit for three years. In the Public Interest @PubInterest ARIEL GUERRERO Shahrzad Habibi is the Research and Policy Director of In the Public Interest, O&G Racial Equity a comprehensive non-profit research and Collaborative • Co-Found- policy center focused on privatization and er & Principal responsible contracting. She previously Ariel Enrique Guerre- worked on issues related to state government contract- ro, MPA, is a born and raised ing at a policy and research organization in Texas, where New Yorker whose career she focused on the privatization of social services. Before has been marked by bold that, Shahrzad worked for a government procurement choices and service. Ariel is co-founder of the O&G Racial consulting firm. She received a Masters in Public Affairs Equity collaborative, a consultant collaborative working and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. with institutions on racial equity knowledge building, leadership and implementation. Prior to, Ariel’s work

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 41 MARIA HADDEN LINA HIDALGO Alderwoman • Chicago City Council, County Judge • Harris 49th Ward @ChiAlderwoman County @JudgeHidalgo Maria Hadden is a first-term alderman Judge Lina Hidalgo in Chicago City Council representing the grew up in an immigrant 49th Ward. A Columbus, Ohio native, Maria family. She knows first-hand has dedicated her personal and profession- the sacrifices hard-working al life to make sure community voices are Texans make every day to heard and that our democracy works better for everyone, build a better life for their families. Judge Hidalgo was not just the privileged few. Before running for office, she born in Colombia during the drug war. Her parents had helped to found and lead The Participatory Budgeting two goals: to keep their children safe and to help them Project and Our City Our Voice. She's a graduate of The get a good education. Judge Hidalgo grew up in Peru and Ohio State University and DePaul University. Mexico before job opportunities brought her parents to VANESSA HALL-HARPER the United States in 2005. She is a proud product of our public schools and, as her parents dreamed, she went Councilor • Tulsa City Council, OK on to a top university. She graduated from Stanford Vanessa has worked 25 years in the Tulsa University with a degree in political science the same County system. She has worked at the Tulsa year she became a U.S. citizen. Health Department for over 18 years. Before She has dedicated hundreds of hours to Harris working in the health field, Vanessa was an County’s most vulnerable communities—working at the Intake Counselor at the Tulsa County Juve- Texas Civil Rights Project, to serving as a Spanish-En- nile Bureau for more than six years. Vanessa glish medical interpreter at the Texas Medical Center, is committed to improving the quality of life in District and supporting immigrants in search of lost loved ones. 1, both professionally and politically. Vanessa is also a While pursuing a joint degree in law and public policy at community activist who is passionate about uplifting NYU and Harvard, Judge Hidalgo researched criminal her community. She volunteers on a plethora of boards justice policies and coordinated with advocacy groups and committees such as the Institute for Developing and governments to push for reform. Judge Hidalgo was Communities (TIDC), Community Food Bank of Eastern elected on November the 6, 2018 and sworn in as Harris Oklahoma, North Tulsa Clean-up Campaign, the Phoenix County Judge on January 1, 2019. District Development Council, Theatre North, Tulsa Juneteenth, the Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce, LAQUITA and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. HONEYSUCKER BILL HENRY Legislative Director • Unit- ed Food and Commercial Councilmember • Baltimore City Workers Labor Union Council @BillforBmore LaQuita Honeysucker Bill Henry (D-4th) is in his third term serves as the Legislative representing North and Northeast Balti- Director of the Legislative more on the Baltimore City Council. A life- and Political Action Department of the United Food and long City resident, he previously worked for Commercial Workers International Union, the largest the Patterson Park Community Develop- private-sector union in the United States. ment Corporation, the US House of Representatives, In this role, LaQuita advances the union’s legislative and the Baltimore City Council President’s office. Bill and regulatory priorities; she works with elected officials has a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and public policy at every level of government to support the issues that from the Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from matter most to UFCW’s 1.3 million hard-working mem- Loyola University Maryland. He and his wife have two bers and their families. The union's priorities include teenage daughters. wage and hour, economic development, agriculture, civil rights, and immigration.

42 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 Johnson Seeks to Move from City Council to County Board Before assuming her role at UFCW, Ms. Honeysuck- CHRISTOPHER A. JOHNSON er served as a Legislative Counsel in the office of Con- County Legislator • Westchester, NY gressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott. Ms. Honeysucker @HonChrisJohnson received her Juris Doctorate from the University Of Christopher A. Johnson was elected Tennessee College Of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee. She to serve as County Legislator for the 16th received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from District in November 2017, representing Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. residents in the city of Yonkers.

ANDREA JENKINS Christopher obtained his Bachelor’s ! City Councilman and county legislator candidate Christopher Johnson Mayor Mike Spano, Council Council Vice President • Degree in Political Science from Long Island Univer- Yonkers City Councilman Christopher Johnson is one of four Democrats seeking sity-C.W. Post Campus. After graduation into 2006, replace County he Legislator Ken Jenkins and represent Yonkers from the 16th District. Minneapolis, MN We asked Johnson about the race and the reasons why he is running. “The 16th District felt called to serve, and immediately joinedhas alwaysAndrea been a powerful voice, fighting for the rights of Yonkers families,” he said. @annapoetic “For the past six years, while serving on the Yonkers City Council, I have demonstrated that same spirit. The experience I have gained directly translates to county government. I Stewart-Cousins' ultimately successful campaignhave been the leaderfor in the fight for affordable housing; creating the opportunity for our Andrea Jenkins is a seniors and disabled who qualify for SCRIE and DRIE to have their rents frozen, State Senate. Following the election, Christopheradvancing an con affordable- housing ordinance guaranteeing working families in Yonkers do writer, performance artist, not get left behind, and introducing legislation protecting our homeless population. tinued his service; playing a key role in the MakingSenator’s sure people have decent safe housing has and will continue to be part of my poet, and transgender ac- focus as I serve the community.” Johnson has served for six years on the City Council, representing the First District, which includes downtown Yonkers. “In my time on the re-election campaigns, as well as in her Yonkerscouncil District I have learned that the only thing that matters is representing your constituents,” tivist. She is the first Afri- he said. “Elected colleagues always give advice and most of it is sound, but nothing Office, first as a Community Liaison to comparesYonkers to making sureand you are reflecting the needs and desires of residents in the can-American openly trans woman to be elected to office district you serve.” The 16th District has a large majority of enrolled Democrats, and the in the United States. Jenkins moved to Minnesota to eventually as her Deputy Chief of Staff. In May 2011, he attend the University of Minnesota in 1979 and worked completed his Master’s Degree in Education at Fordham at the Hennepin County government for a decade. Jen- University, concentrating in School Counseling and kins worked as a staff member on the Minneapolis City Personnel Services. Council for 12 years before beginning work as curator of In September 2011, Christopher won the Democratic the Transgender Oral History Project at the University primary to become the Council member representing of Minnesota's Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, the 1st District on the Yonkers City Council and went on Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. to win the general election in November. Christopher’s Andrea holds a Masters Degree in Community De- focus on the City Council was fighting for equity in ed- velopment from Southern New Hampshire University, ucation, affordable housing, and local jobs for people an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline Universi- in the community. He has continued fighting for those ty and a Bachelors Degrees in Human Services from same issues at the County level where he has passed Metropolitan State University. She is a nationally and progressive legislation such as Ban The Box, Fairness internationally recognized writer and artist, a 2011 Bush In Cooperative Ownership, Salary History Anti-Dis- Fellow to advance the work of transgender inclusion, crimination legislation, Immigration Protection and and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. supported state legislation regarding bail reform and renter protection. Christopher is the eldest of three sib- DEVENE JIMENEZ-MITCHELL lings and lives in Yonkers with Tai, his wife, expanding Youth Leader • Make the Road Nevada on his deep family roots in Yonkers, which span several Devene is a 16-year-old high school student who generations—including his late Great-Grandmother attends Canyon Springs High School as a business lead- Evelyn Johnson. ership major in North Las Vegas, Nevada. DuringDe- ven's time as a fellow with MRNV I assisted in passing GAIL JOHNSON AB 168 Restorative Justice. Devene is a founder of the Commissioner • Gainesville, FL Youth Power Project, a member of a youth committee @Gail4Gville to implement AB 168 and creates campaigns to involve Gail Johnson is a commissioner in the youth of southern Nevada. Gainesville, Florida where she unseated an incumbent and was elected at-large in 2018. In a mid-sized city with a council-manager form of government, that owns its utility, with a population of approximately 160,000 and a com- bined budget of over $800,000,000, her responsibilities

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 43 are complex and varied. She is passionate about social KORIN L. KIRK justice, environmental justice, and reproductive justice, School Board Member • particularly when it comes to women, immigrants, and Binghamton City School people of color. She is leading the municipal efforts in District Board of the city for achieving racial and gender equity, both in Education, NY city government and the community at large. When she Korin L. Kirk is a gradu- isn't spending her time at meetings, community events, ate of the public school sys- talking with constituents or researching policy, she is tem. Korin returned from raising a brilliant and talkative nine-year-old daughter. college a fierce and confident fighter of social injustice. TISHAURA O. JONES She can be found working her day job for an Anti-Poverty Initiative or in her many volunteer positions through the Treasurer • City of St. Louis, MO NAACP or the Broome County Youth Bureau. Before @tishaura reaching the age of 35, Korin has already successfully Tishaura Jones is the first wom- run, won, and increased voter turnout for two School an to hold the office of Treasurer. She Board Races; she is on track to have served 10 years is the chief investment and cash man- as an elected official before 40. She brings to the table agement officer of the city and oversees experience in large scale budgets, policy-making, and and manages the city’s parking division. grassroots organizing. Korin values integrity, transpar- Since becoming Treasurer, Tishaura has increased ency, and the input of all stakeholders, especially giving transparency in city government, streamlined and voice and choice to the most marginalized. “Lifting as modernized the parking division, improved returns on we climb, onward and upward we go” a quote by educa- the city’s investments, increased the overall financial tor, Mary Church Terrell are words that Korin lives by. health of city residents by reducing the number of un- banked households, and started a citywide children’s JOANNA KLONSKY savings program. President • Communica- MOIRA B. KALEIDA tion Strategies School Director • Pittsburgh Public @Joannaklonsky Schools, PA @PublicEd412 Joanna Klonsky is a Moira Kaleida was born and raised in Chicago-based media strate- Pittsburgh, PA. Combining her passions gist who advises candidates, of activism, education, and policy, she was elected officials, government elected to the Pittsburgh Public School agencies and advocacy organizations. Joanna has served Board in 2015 and currently serves as on campaigns in the national, state, municipal and judi- the Chair of the Policy Committee. Past accomplish- cial arenas, including, most recently, as senior advisor to ments include a comprehensive Transgender/Gender the successful campaign of Chicago Mayor Lori Light- Non-Conforming policy, a K-2 suspension ban, a Sanc- foot. Joanna was named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ tuary Schools resolution, and stopping school police 40 Under 40 in 2016, and to Chicago Magazine‘s “New from being armed. During the day, Moira also serves as Power Players” in 2019. In 2015, the Chicago Reader Chief of Staff to a Pittsburgh Councilman. named Joanna Chicago’s “Best Political Flack”. ARI KAMEN BYRON SIGCHO LOPEZ Senior Political Strategist • Working Families Party Alderman • Chicago City @AriKamen Council @SigchoFor25 Ari Kamen has been on staff for the Working Fami- Byron Sigcho Lopez is an lies Party for over 10 years. His work primarily focuses immigrant who, like so many around recruiting, training and electing progressive others in Chicago, came to champions to local, state and federal offices around the the Pilsen neighborhood country. Before that Ari was the State Political Director and made it his home. While for the New York Working Families Party. working as an adult education teacher and volunteer

44 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 youth soccer coach at his neighborhood public school, JUAN MANUEL GUZMAN Pilsen Academy, Byron became involved with the Pilsen Advocacy and Policy Manager • Alliance in its campaign to help save 130 Chicago Public United We Dream @_jmguzman Schools slated for closure by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. He Undocumented No Longer Afraid | Ad- continued his involvement with the Pilsen Alliance and vocacy & Policy Manager @UNITEDWE- became its executive director in 2015. He was elected DREAM | Politics & International Affairs Alderman of Chicago's 25th Ward in April 2019. He con- Addict | DJ & Barista Aficionado | tinues to serve as the Community Representative on the Local School Council at Whittier Elementary in Pilsen, DENZEL MCCAMPBELL is an active member of SEIU Local 73, and a member of Member • BYP100 - the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America. Detroit Chapter @DenzAnton_ Byron earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Ad- A Detroit native, east side to be exact, ministration and Mathematics from Cumberland Uni- Denzel is a Black queer man who loves his versity in Tennessee, and a Master’s in Economics from city and Black folks. In 2015, Denzel was a the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently com- part of the first group of members of the De- pleting his PhD in Policy Studies in Urban Education troit chapter of BYP100. He currently also from the University of Illinois at Chicago. works as communications director for Congresswoman JOE LUGINBILL Rashida Tlaib and has worked on various electoral and School Board Commis- issue campaigns in Detroit and Lansing. Denzel is a sioner • Eau Claire Area policy wonk, he served recently as BYP100’s national School District, WI public policy chair and looks forward to working with @JoeLuginbill folks to create more Black queer feminist policy on a Commissioner Joe Lug- path toward liberation. Denzel also loves Beyoncé and inbill is an advocate for chil- a holistic turn up! dren and a member of the CARLOS MENCHACA Eau Claire School Board, helping to lead Wisconsin’s Councilmember • New York City eighth largest school district. Elected in 2015 and re- Council @cmenchaca elected in 2018, he is the youngest and first openly gay Carlos Menchaca represents District school board member in Eau Claire history. Joe is also a 38, which includes Sunset Park, Red Hook, member of the UN Major Group for Children and Youth Greenwood Heights, Borough Park, Dyker as well as the Council of Organizations for the UN. Learn Heights, and Windsor Terrace. He is New more at JoeLuginbill.com York City’s first Mexican-American elected CARMELYN P. official and Brooklyn’s first openly gay legislator. As MALALIS Chair of the Committee on Immigration, Carlos led Commissioner/Chair • negotiations that funded the nation’s largest public New York City Commis- defender program for undocumented immigrants. He sion on Human Rights authored the legislation for the city’s municipal identifi- @NYCCHR cation card, IDNYC, which now serves over one million Carmelyn P. Malalis was residents. You can see Carlos’ commitment to direct appointed Chair and Com- democracy through his annual allocation of more than missioner of the NYC Commission on Human Rights by $2 million to Participatory Budgeting (PB). A champion Mayor Bill de Blasio in November 2014 following over a for his neighborhoods, Carlos fights gentrification and decade in private practice as an advocate for employees' displacement through street protest, support of tenant rights in the workplace. Since assuming her role, Com- advocates, and through legislation that extends tenants’ missioner Malalis has revitalized the agency, making rights including the right to counsel in housing court. it a recognized venue for justice through increased enforcement and robust public education and outreach to prevent and address discrimination in New York City.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 45 NANCY METAYER MARIAH MONSANTO Climate Justice Program Manager • The Organizer • Durham New Florida Majority Beyond Policing • BYP100 @Nancy_Metayer Durham Nancy Metayer is a community or- @peaceloveandmo ganizer and former member of the Bro- Mariah M. is a Black ward County Soil and Water Conservation queer femme organizer and District. With a decade of public service artist based in Durham, experience, she is leading on issues ranging from envi- North Carolina. She is a BOLD alumni, a proud mem- ronmental advocacy to disaster relief. Nancy has a record ber of BYP100, and organizes with the Durham Beyond for championing community resilience and building Policing Coalition as a part of the comms team. In addi- pipelines for access and equity. Nancy is a graduate of tion to her life as an organizer, Mariah is the co-host of Florida A&M University, where she received her Bach- the Black Future Manifest[o] podcast, co-producer for elor of Science degree and a graduate of Johns Hopkins The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast, University where she received her Master of Health and the current Poetry Program Director at Blackspace, Science degree. an afterschool digital makerspace for African diasporic Nancy has undertaken work across multiple gov- youth. ernment agencies and nonprofit organizations - both TERESA MOSQUEDA domestically and internationally. Most recently, Nancy was a Mayoral candidate for Coral Springs in the March City Councilmember 2019 special election. Currently, Nancy leads a long-term Position 8 (City-Wide) • strategy initiative, Florida Disaster Preparedness Plan Seattle, WA (FDPP), which focuses on building disaster and com- @CMTMosqueda munity resilience in vulnerable neighborhoods across Teresa Mosqueda is the state of Florida. a third-generation Mexi- can-American and comes to Seattle City Council fol- MAURICE MITCHELL lowing a long career effectively advocating for working National Director • families. Her calling for public service began as a child, Working Families Party where she learned first-hand what it means to stand up @ciphersankofa for the most vulnerable and to fight for transformational Maurice Mitchell is a nationally-rec- change from her parents. Most recently, as the Political ognized social movement strategist, a vi- and Strategic Campaign Director of the Washington sionary leader in the Movement for Black State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Teresa worked to ad- Lives, and a community organizer for ra- vance immigrant and refugee rights, enact worker pro- cial, social, and economic justice. Maurice joined the tections, and protect workplace safety. CM Mosqueda Working Families Party in August 2018, and led the was elected to the Council national organization through a successful midterm in 2017. election season that ended Republican control of legis- OMAR NARVAEZ lative chambers in New York and Colorado, and ousted District 6 Councilmember conservative corporate Democrats in states from New • Dallas, TX Mexico to Maryland to Rhode Island. This year the WFP @Voteomarnarvaez has won a raft of municipal wins, including the Public Omar Narvaez was Advocate's elections in New York, school board races elected to the Dallas City in Milwaukee, and city council elections in Chicago, Council in 2017 representing District 6. For over 80 Phoenix, and Morgantown, West Virginia. Maurice is years, Councilmember Narvaez' family has lived in Dis- building the Working Families Party to be America’s trict 6, including Ledbetter, La Loma, and Bachman Lake authentic, multi-racial populist party. neighborhoods. In his first year as a member of the Dallas City Council, Narvaez was named Dallas City Council Member of the Year by Dallas Observer Magazine. Since

46 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 this accolade, Narvaez has continued to work diligently MIKE O'BRIEN for District 6 and successfully negotiated $15 an hour Councilmember • Seattle, WA wages for 1,500 new jobs at an Amazon distribution fa- @CMMikeOBrien cility. Narvaez has a passion for community involvement Born and raised in the Seattle area, and has served as president of the Stonewall Democrats Mike has a deep appreciation for the beauty of Dallas & vice-president of League of United Latin of the Puget Sound region and respect for American Citizens (LULAC) 4871. the progressive values and spirit of indepen- CYNDI NGUYEN dence of the people who live in Seattle and Councilmember • New make it such a great city. In his ten years on city council, Orleans, LA Mike has been a champion for environmental and social Cyndi Nguyen was justice causes including work to: ban plastic bags, create elected to the City Council a public financing system for local elections, give Uber of New Orleans, Louisiana drivers the right to collective bargain, create stable living in November 2017. She is the options for people living in vehicles and without shelter, first Vietnamese to be elect- find alternatives to incarcerating our kids, prevent Shell ed to this prestigious position. Councilwoman Nguyen Oil from establishing their Arctic drilling fleet in Seat- represents District E which is made up of New Orleans tle, and increase affordable housing options by easing East, the Lower Ninth Ward and Irish Bayou. Nguyen restrictions on building Accessible Dwelling Units. Mike is a commissioner for the New Orleans Recreational earned an economics degree from Duke University and Department Commission (NORDC), and French Mar- an MBA from the University of Washington. He lives ket Corporation. She is also the chairperson of the New with his wife and two sons in Freemont. Orleans City Council Economic Development Com- DR. ROSALIND OSGOOD mittee and a past board member of the Ruby Bridges School Board Member • Broward County Foundation. Nguyen received her bachelor’s degree in Public Schools, FL social work from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa and @Reverendros a master’s degree in organizational management from Dr. Rosalind Osgood is a former welfare the University of Phoenix. mom that lived homeless 29 years ago while MARCELIA battling with addiction. She is an innovative NICHOLSON leader, author, and a strong advocate for so- Vice Chairwoman • cial justice. She is sought after throughout the country Milwaukee County, WI as a preacher, inspirational keynote, and lecturer in the @Marci4MKE areas of leadership, team development, and community Marcelia Nicholson organizing. Local and national media outlets have fea- was first elected in 2016 to tured her work. Dr. Osgood enjoys reading, traveling, represent District 5 as its and basketball. County Supervisor. Shortly after, she was chosen by JENNIFER PAE her colleagues to be the 1st Vice-Chair for the Milwaukee Vice President of Trainings & Leadership County Board. Currently sitting as Chairperson for the Development • re:power Committee of Economic and Community Development Jennifer Pae is Vice President of Train- and a member of the Committee of Parks, Energy and ings & Leadership Development at re:power. Environment, Nicholson fights not only for her district Born in the Bay Area and raised in Califor- but for all Milwaukee County residents. nia’s Central Valley, Jennifer’s values are shaped by her mother, an immigrant, and single parent. As a first-generation college student, she led campaigns to improve campus safety policies for women, access to higher education and served as UC San Diego’s first Asian American woman

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 47 student body president. Jennifer has served as a nonprof- city in North Texas to offer Paid Parental Leave for all it leader at the national, state, and local level, including City Employees and the 4th city in the entire state of the US Student Association, PowerPAC, 18MillionRising. Texas to do so. She is also the Organizing Director for org, League of Women Voters of California, Mobilize the Texas Working Families Party. the Immigrant Vote, East Bay Asian Voter Education Consortium, and FairVote on issues of capacity building, CARLOS RAMIREZ- issue campaigns, civic engagement, and electoral reform. ROSA In 2010, she ran for Oakland City Council with the help Alderman, 35th Ward • of over 200 dedicated volunteer canvassers and phone City of Chicago, IL bankers to make nearly 27,000 contacts. Although she @CDRosa didn’t secure the seat, the campaign made a significant Carlos Ramirez-Rosa impact on the community by engaging new and infre- is a lifelong Chicagoan who quent voters. has worked to put our neighborhoods and working families first as a community CHANNEL POWE organizer, congressional caseworker, and 35th Ward Governing Board President • Balsz Ele- Alderman. Serving as 35th Ward Alderman since May mentary School District, AZ 2015, Carlos has led legislative efforts to win proper- @Channel_Az ty tax relief for working-class homeowners, paid sick Over the past decade, Channel Powe has leave for workers, equality for transgender people, and been a champion for communities, children, accountability on municipal financial transactions. He and families. As a Detroit native, Ms. Powe is working to ensure Chicago is equitable for all. experienced firsthand the daunting challenges that can discourage individuals—especially those NAOMI A. FOLAMI without professional, political or policy backgrounds, RANDOLPH- resources, or a powerful rolodex. Having come a long HWESUHUNU way—from an upstart child advocate to; elected Gov- Senior Advisor • erning Board President, past Arizona School Boards Action NC Association Black Caucus—President, and past city and Naomi A. Folami Ran- county board commissioner. dolph-Hwesuhunu is a Recently, Powe led the charge to pass five board res- community alchemist and olutions that aim to reduce student suspension, create midwife for change. She is the senior advisor for Ac- safe zones for immigrants, and a call-to-action for law- tion NC and focused on organizational development, makers to act by investing in counselors, not fire-arms. program development, strategic planning, leadership Ms. Powe is a nationally recognized equity leader and development, community building, and organizing and often called upon by the National School Boards Associ- race and gender equity. Over the past 24 years, Mrs. ation and other advocacy groups to share her expertise Randolph-Hwesuhunu has had the opportunity to work in improving the quality for all, through an equity lens. with grassroots organizations, faith-based groups, com- She also led the successful push for a district-wide di- munity development organizations, small businesses, vestment from a vendor in the prison industry. corporations, and local, state, and federal government entities, and she has worked with rural, urban, and in- CANDICE QUARLES ternational communities. Councilmember • DeSoto, TX Mrs. Randolph- Hwesuhunu is also the founder Candice Quarles serves as a I am Worthy Enterprises, an organization designed Councilmember for the city of DeSoto, to celebrate, educate, heal, and affirm women of the a suburb of Dallas, TX. Elected in 2016, African diaspora. She believes that restoring the prac- she has established herself as a bold, tices and wisdom of indigenous cultures will transform progressive champion for working-class individuals and communities. She is a North Carolina issues. Councilwoman Quarles sponsored native and enjoys her life with her husband, mother and and championed the policy to mark DeSoto as the first extended family.

48 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 HEAVYN REMSCHNEIDER residents engaging in hard, but beneficial conversa- LIT Member • Leaders Igniting Transformation tions. He believed this was the best way to introduce Heavyn Remschneider was born in Chicago, Illinois himself, while better understanding the pulse of the but has grown up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she Coral Springs community. Josh believes the City is a currently resides. She is 13 years old and is an incom- microcosm of the State of Florida, with great diversity. ing eighth-grader at Lincoln Center of the Arts Middle BRANDEN SNYDER School. Heavyn first heard about LIT through her older Executive Director • Detroit Action sisters who are members at their high school chapter. @Bsneezy313 She has been involved for almost a year and has been Branden Snyder is the Founding Exec- very vocal about the inequity and racial disparities in utive Director of Detroit Action, (formerly Milwaukee Public Schools. She recently graduated Black Good Jobs Now and the Detroit Action Com- Hogwarts, a 6-week summer program that teaches stu- monwealth). Detroit Action is a communi- dents about different social justice movements, systems ty-based organization fighting for political of oppression, and the skills to organize in their schools power and economic justice for working-class Black and and communities. Brown Michiganders.e, Previously, Branden was the ALISSA SCHAFER Deputy Organizing Director in charge of Youth Voting for the Hillary For Michigan 2016 presidential campaign, Soil and Water Conserva- the Deputy Campaign Manager for the groundbreaking tion District Supervisor • Gilchrist for City Clerk campaign as well as the Director Broward County, FL of Organizing for Michigan United. Born and raised on @alissajean Detroit's East Side, Branden is a graduate of the Univer- Managing Director sity of Michigan—Ann Arbor with a Bachelor's degree & Owner of political con- in Political Science and Afro-American studies. He also sulting firm Copper Stamp holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the Gerald Strategy and elected Soil & R. Ford School for Public Policy. Water Conservation District Supervisor in Broward County, Alissa works throughout the southeast region JENALYN SOTTO of the United States to advance progressive policies Senior Manager for Campaign and Dig- and candidates. With political roots in electoral and ital Strategies • National Women’s Law legislative campaigns, Alissa often serves as a policy Center translator and coalition bridge builder, taking poten- Jenalyn develops and implements tially complex issues and presenting them in a way that compelling advocacy and partnership cam- resonates with everyone from families, to volunteers, paigns focused on advancing workplace jus- to the media, using real stories and life experiences to tice and income security objectives. Jenalyn mobilize communities and voters towards the change has professional and academic expertise in federal, state, that is so desperately needed. and local government; civil rights and minority issues; JOSHUA A. SIMMONS coalition-building; cross-cultural communications; and progressive public policy. Her legislative experience Commissioner • Coral includes diversity and inclusion, voting and civil rights, Springs @SimmonsinCS immigration, and mental health. Commissioner Joshua A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Jenalyn (Josh) Simmons was elect- is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley ed to office and sworn in to where she received her dual Bachelor of Arts with hon- the City of Coral Springs ors in Rhetoric and Asian American Studies. When not Commission on Tuesday, working to dismantle systemic biases and replacing November 27, 2018. Josh is the first African-American them with enduring pipelines of access and inclusion, Commissioner to be elected since the City became in- she can be found celebrating the culinary arts, enjoying corporated in 1963. During Josh’s run for Commission musical theater, exploring new neighborhoods, and/or Seat 4, he knocked on more than 4,500 doors of City reading a good book.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 49 KAT STAFFORD receiving his degree at Colorado State, he served two Detroit government reporter • years in the U.S. Peace Corps in Kenya, where he worked Detroit Free Press @Kat__Stafford with schools, hospitals and women’s groups to build Kat Stafford is an award-winning jour- health clinics and water supplies, and provided training nalist at the Detroit Free Press. Stafford, a for families in primary health. He remains active with Detroit native, has received several awards the Chicago Area Returned Peace Corps Association. for her work and was recently named a 2019 Before his election as Alderman, Waguespack Ida B. Wells investigative fellow at Type worked with Chicago-Kent College of Law Rule of Law Investigations. Stafford was awarded the Society of program, supporting various governments in the Bal- Professional Journalists’ 2017 Young Journalist of the kans, assisting the War Crimes Tribunal in the former Year Award and the 2017 Detroit Young Professionals Yugoslavia, establishing the rule of law, and working on Vanguard Award. She was also named a 2018 Rising economic development. He served as an advisor to the Star by the News Media Alliance and was a 2016 Fel- President of Kosovo and the interim government after low of the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles’ prestigious the end of the Kosovo War. Journalist Law School. She is the vice president of the After the election of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, SPJ Detroit chapter. Waguespack was voted in by his peers as the Chairman of the Chicago City Council Finance Committee. He CANDACE VALENZUELA serves as a member of several other city committees Trustee, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD and the Chicago Plan Commission. • Dallas, TX @Candancefor24 JENNA WADSWORTH Trustee Candace Valenzuela is on the school board for Carrollton-Farmers Supervisor • Wake County Branch ISD in Dallas, TX. Having experi- Soil and Water Conserva- enced food and home insecurity as a child, tion District Board, NC @ Candace has worked to ensure that the chil- jennawadsworth dren in her district have access to healthy food both at Jenna grew up off a dirt school and at home. Next school year the kids in her road on her grandparents' district will have access to free breakfast, lunch, and farm, which raised corn, dinner if they attend after school tutoring. CFBISD soybeans, tobacco, cattle, and hogs. She is a graduate also partners with organizations in the community to of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathe- ensure that kids don't go hungry during the weekend or matics (NCSSM). She graduated Magna Cum Laude over the summer. from North Carolina State University with majors in Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies with SCOTT WAGUESPACK a minor in English. Alderman, 32nd Ward • In November 2010—at the age of 21—Jenna made City of Chicago, IL @ward32chicago history with her election to the Wake County Soil and Scott Waguespack is the alderman of Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors by Chicago’s northwest side 32nd Ward and becoming the youngest woman ever elected to public Chairman of the City Chicago City Council office in North Carolina. Jenna was re-elected in 2014 Committee on Finance. Since his election and 2018 and became Vice-Chair in 2015. as alderman in 2007, Ald. Waguespack has When she’s not on a tractor, Jenna is the Co-Founder been a leading independent voice in the City Council, and former Co-Director of the progressive nonprofit challenging city administrations on the issues of trans- New Leaders Council—North Carolina. She serves on parency, finances, public safety, and public education. the NCSSM Alumni Association’s Board of Directors, Ald. Waguespack is a founding member of the City Coun- and she speaks to international delegations for the U.S. cil Progressive Reform Caucus and served as chair from Department of State’s International Visitors Leadership 2015 to 2019. Program and US AID. She became a small business own- Ald. Waguespack graduated from Colorado State er in 2017 and worked as the Managing Partner of her University and Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT. After consulting firm Elevated Prospects, LLC.

50 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 ARTI WALKER-PEDDAKOTLA the Political Director for the Midwest initiative and the Oak Park Village Trustee • Village of Oak Park Director of State and Local Programs. Before SEIU, she @ajpeddakotla was the Deputy Director for Government Affairs for the Arti Walker-Peddakotla was elected as Oak Park State of Ohio. Village Trustee in April 2019. Arti also works as a Se- BETH WILLLON nior Product Manager for a nonprofit tech company, is Communications Director • California Su- a former microbiologist, and a U.S. Army veteran. Arti pervisor Cindy Chavez, Santa Clara County advocates for immigrant and human rights with Veter- @bethwillon ans for American Ideals, a project of Human Rights First, Beth Willon is a former journalist pho- and is a Defense Council member of Truman National tographer reporting for newspapers, radio Security Project. & television in several West Coast cities. MAURICE BP-WEEKS She primarily covered politics, government, Co- Executive Director • campaigns & the judicial system. She transitioned into Action Center on Race and the political world as a communications director for a the Economy former California Lieutenant Governor & other state @mo87mo87 politicians & statewide campaigns. Beth has worked Maurice is the Co-Ex- for Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez since ecutive Director of ACRE. March 2017 handling strategic media coverage, events, He works with communi- website, newsletter and works on some policy issues. ty organizations and labor SAGE WILSON unions on campaigns to go on offense against Wall Street Communications Director • to beat back their destruction of communities of color. Working Washington He was previously the Campaign Director of the Re- Sage Wilson has directed Working Washington’s Fund America Project and worked as the Wall Street digital and communications work through a series of Accountability and Housing Justice campaigner at the breakthrough campaigns over the past eight years, in- Center for Popular Democracy before that. Maurice cluding Seattle’s $15 minimum wage, secure scheduling, serves on the Advisory Council of Black Organizing for and domestic workers bill of rights; statewide paid family Leadership and Dignity (BOLD). He graduated from leave and paid sick days; campaigns to restore overtime Swarthmore College. protections and win new rights for gig workers; numer- KARUNDI ous marches and rallies; and a variety of stunts. Before WILLIAMS joining Working Washington, Sage spent 10 years at Executive Director • UFCW 21, the largest private-sector union in the state. re:power FAITH WINTER @KarundiWilliams State Senator, CO @FaithKWinter Karundi Williams is Faith Winter is a State Senator in the Executive Director of Colorado and has also been training and re:power, a national progres- building the progressive movement for 15 sive training and capacity building organization. She years. Faith is a founding board member is based in Washington, D.C. and leads a national team of Local Progress. Faith has passed laws to of strategists, organizers, and technologists towards solve transportation problems, improve the re:power’s bold mission of building transformative polit- lives of women, and combat climate change. Faith has ical power with and for communities of color, at all levels held a lot of titles from City Councilor, Mayor Pro-Tem, in our government and power structures. She brings two National Training Director, Executive Director, State decades of experience in local government, the labor Representative, Business Owner and State Senator but movement, and the progressive ecosystem to re:power. in her heart, she is an organizer every single day building Previously, Karundi held multiple leadership positions power through people. at SEIU (Service Employees International Union) as

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52 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 DANIELLE ADAMS TRACEY CORDER Southern Coordinator • Director of Federal Action and Local Progress Racial Justice • CPD Prior to joining CPD, As Racial Justice Campaign Director Danielle worked at the In- for CPD, Tracey is building deep and close stitute for Southern Studies, relationships with core affiliates who are a public interest media, re- focused on driving racial justice work as well search and education center as working with other CPD staff to develop aimed at drawing attention to the national importance of effective intersectional campaigns. the South. She has previously served as the Alternative She came to CPD from Oakland Rising where she Transportation Project Manager in the Office of Sustain- worked as the Field Director for 2 years. There she was ability at Appalachian State University, on the Board of responsible for developing short and long term electoral Directors for the Upper Neuse River Association and has strategy and helping to sustain intentional relationships worked with the International Affairs Council—Middle with partner organizations, elected officials, city staff, East Partnership Initiative of the U.S. Department of labor, community leaders and other key stakeholders in State on connecting women in local elected office globally. Oakland. Prior to this, Tracey worked as the Deputy Field Danielle serves as an ambassador to Oxfam Ameri- Director for CO Victory in the 2014 federal midterms ca’s Sisters on the Planet program and is a current local elections and served as the Wisconsin African American elected official in Durham, NC. She is a graduate of North Vote Director for the 2012 Obama re-election campaign. Carolina Central University holding a BA in political She has strong ties to the labor movement through her science with a minor in music and studied graduate organizing as the Service Area Organizer with AFL-CIO Environmental Politics and Policy Analysis at Appala- in Wisconsin. Tracey has also worked to elect candidates chian State University. on every level of government throughout the country. ADY BARKAN Born in Milwaukee, WI and making her home in Oakland, CA, Tracey is a member of the BYP100-Bay Area Founding Director • Local Chapter and a co-host of the weekly podcast That's What Progress Campaigner • She Said. Tracey holds a BS in Sociology and Human CPD @AdyBarkan Services from Edgewood College and spent 4 years as a Ady Barkan was the Social Worker before formally entering organizing work. founding director of two major projects at the Center for TARSI DUNLOP Popular Democracy: Local Policy and Program Manager • Local Progress and the Fed Up campaign. Ady is now focused Progress on strengthening America’s healthcare system and in- Tarsi manages membership and pro- spiring millions of Americans to take back our democra- gramming for Local Progress. Prior to join- cy from the racists and kleptocrats. Before joining CPD, ing CPD, Tarsi served as the program and Ady was a law clerk to the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin in the operations manager for the Learning First Southern District of New York, who found the NYPD’s Alliance, a national coalition of education stop-and-frisk program to be unconstitutional. Prior to associations committed to strengthening public schools that, Ady worked at Make the Road New York, where he for all children where she oversaw the organization's represented low-wage workers seeking to recover unpaid operations and supported program efforts to raise the wages, engage in collective action, and obtain safe and visibility of members and education professionals. Tarsi dignified working conditions. He helped design and draft got her start in the nonprofit progressive organizing world policy proposals to enhance the quality of low-wage jobs with the Roosevelt Institute, where she helped build the in New York City including the right to paid sick days, national campus network, and served on staff as Director regulation of major retailers, and unionization of the of Operations and Communications for two years after car wash industry. He graduated from Yale Law School graduating from the network. She remains actively in- and Columbia College. volved in the network as an alumnus, supporting students as they develop progressive policy ideas and build their

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 53 campaigns. Tarsi holds a BA in Political Science from Mid- SILVIA FABELA dlebury College and a Nonprofit Management Executive Campaigns Director • Certificate from Georgetown University. Local Progress DIANNE ENRIQUEZ @SoFabby Co-Director of Community Dignity Cam- Silvia joined the LP paigns • CPD team after working in the Dianne Enriquez leads the Housing and labor movement for 10 years. Climate Justice programs at the CPD and Silvia was senior staff on the brings over 15 years of grassroots organiz- global corporate OUR Walmart campaign (now United ing, policy advocacy and national campaigns for Respect). In this capacity, she led their political work, experience. She works with her team to as well as a national grassroots alliance of Walmart develop strategy, coordinate national efforts, and develop workers, union members, and community partners. At partnerships to build broad support on these issues. She the AFL-CIO, Silvia focused on popular education for began her career in policy advocacy and strategic cam- affiliate members on the economy and leadership de- paigns as the Director of Young Workers United in San velopment for young union members. She now oversees Francisco, organizing young and immigrant workers in all Local Progress member engagement and issue work the city’s restaurant industry. Most recently, Dianne was on the LP team, specifically leads the immigrant rights Deputy Director of Member Programs and Participation and policing work. at SEIU 775 in Washington state, where she directed all Silvia became an American citizen when she was internal organizing. 15 years old. The volunteered on her first campaign in 2004—on Barack Obama’s Senate race and has an avid JENNIFER EPPS-ADDISON love for a good field program. Silvia is a proud Illinoisan Network President and Co-Executive and alumni of Monmouth College where she earned her Director • CPD @Jeppsaddison Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and psy- Jennifer Epps-Addison serves as the chology. President and Co-Executive Director of the MERCEDES Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Ac- FULBRIGHT tion's network of 49 partner organizations in 33 states. As President, Jennifer leads Texas State Coordinator • CPD’s racial justice campaigns, and works closely with Local Progress its network of local affiliates. @MercedesFbright Jennifer boasts over 15 years of community organiz- Mercedes Fulbright ing experience, advancing systems-change campaigns comes to us from Paul Quinn for economic and racial justice. Prior to joining CPD, College, a historically Black Epps-Addison was the Chief Program Officer for the college in Dallas, as the former Special Assistant to Liberty Hill Foundation, a social justice foundation in the President. Under her management, she assisted in Los Angeles that funds grassroots community organizing launching the African American Leadership Institute, campaigns for social change. A native of Milwaukee, WI, a Dallas-based think tank housed at Paul Quinn, for the Epps-Addison helped coordinate the Fight for $15 cam- study and advancement of public policy, economic devel- paign as the Executive Director of Wisconsin Jobs Now. opment, civic engagement, and leadership development Epps-Addison is the recipient of the 2013 Edna Award as it relates to the African American community and from the Berger-Marks Foundation, which honors an Black elected officials throughout the state of Texas. She outstanding young woman each year for her leadership previously worked for Young People For (YP4), a program in fueling social change. In the same year, she was named of People for the American Way Foundation, in Washing- an 'Activist to Watch' by Bill Moyers. She earned her BA ton, DC. While there, she developed critically conscious in Political Science and Women's Studies and her JD curriculum for strategic youth leadership development from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to her return to training and oversaw their national civic engagement and organizing, Jennifer was a trial attorney in the Wisconsin voter mobilization campaigns with many of her projects State Public Defender's Office. in North Carolina to combat voter suppression.

54 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 EMMA GREENMAN SARAH JOHNSON Director of Voting Rights Director • Local Progress & Democracy • CPD Prior to joining CPD, Sarah served @emmagreenman as the Managing Director at the Working Emma Greenman di- Families Organization where she helped rects the Center for Popular develop a senior management team to guide Democracy's national Vot- organizational strategy and as the Elections ing Rights and Democracy Director for the New York Working Fam- program, managing strategy, policy development, legal ilies Party where she helped recruit, train and elect and strategic research and issue campaigns to drive progressive elected officials at all levels of government CPD’s work on voting rights and elections, money in and contributed to doubling the size of the Progressive politics and redistricting. She has over 15 years of ex- Caucus of the New York City Council. Sarah got her perience working on democracy and justice issues as an start as a political organizer for SEIU 32BJ where she attorney, a policy expert, an advocate and an organizer. managed member-to-member political programs and Before joining CPD, she practiced law as a public de- supported the union's equitable development advocacy fender and as a civil litigator at Maslon LLP where she work including the passage of the prevailing wage bill served as pro bono counsel to the ACLU-Minnesota on for New York City building service workers. voting rights litigation. Emma holds a law degree from Sarah is a graduate of Williams College and Pratt In- UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and a Masters in stitute, where she received a Masters in Urban Planning. Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School JULIO LÓPEZ VARONA of Government. Co-Director Community Dignity KATIE GOLDSTEIN Campaigns • CPD @Jlopezvarona Senior National Julio is the Co-Director of Community Organizer • CPD Dignity Campaigns at the Center for Popular She came to CPD from Democracy were he supports our affiliates in Tenants & Neighbors, a New building campaigns around Puerto Rico and York City based grassroots immigration. Originally from Puerto Rico, housing justice organization Julio moved to New Orleans after law school where he that did tenant organizing served as a law clerk for the Orleans Public Defenders and city, state, and federal policy and legislative cam- and as a project officer Independent Police Monitor. In paigns. She was at Tenants & Neighbors for 11 years and 2012, he moved to Connecticut where he became an most recently was the Executive Director. She has been organizer with SEIU NE 1199. Before joining CPD, Julio an organizer for over 15 years, working on housing, labor, was the founding organizer of Make the Road CT that interfaith, LGBTQ, and economic justice campaigns. has become one of the most respected immigrant rights She is actively involved in Jews for Racial and Economic organizations in Connecticut. Justice in New York. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Global Studies.

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 55 IVAN LUEVANOS-ELMS FRANCESCA MENES Organizing Director • Local Progress Florida State Coordinator • @IvanLS24 Local Progress Prior to joining CPD, Ivan served as @francescamenes Director of the Community Engagement Prior to joining CPD, Division of the New York City Council. In his Francesca served as the Di- 4 years at the Council, Ivan directly worked rector of Policy and Advoca- in the development of IDNYC, which give all cy for the Florida Immigrant New Yorkers access to a municipal ID card, expansion of Coalition (FLIC) and Political Director for FLIC Votes, the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, creation where she led the development and implementation of of the Unaccompanied Minors Initiative and expanding strategic legislative, policy and voter engagement cam- New York City Council’s Participatory Budgeting Pro- paigns locally and statewide. She co-coordinated the cess to all five boroughs. Florida Wage Theft Task Force, which led the passage Prior to the New York City Council, Ivan worked of ordinances in several counties throughout the state. at Make the Road New York as their LGBTQ Justice In 2014, she successfully led the statewide campaign Organizer, working at the intersections of immigrant “We Are Florida’s Future” to pass in-state tuition for and LGBTQ Rights. In between, he's run and worked undocumented students and led the campaign to estab- on electoral campaigns at the Working Families lish the Office of New Americans of Miami-Dade County, Party, including managing Carlos Menchaca's City establishing a public-private partnership to promote Council race in 2013, which successfully unseated a naturalization. multi-term incumbent. Additionally, during the 2016 and 2017 legislative Ivan graduated from Loyola Marymount University session, Francesca successfully coordinated the state- with B.A. in Political Science and Spanish, and from New wide campaign "We Are Florida's Families," which led York University with M.A. in Politics. to the defeat of 9 anti-immigrant and anti-refugee bills which sought to criminalize immigrants and remove from office local elected officials who support and vote on policies to protect immigrants regardless of their status. Francesca graduated from Florida International Uni- versity, earning her BA in Political Science and Women's Studies and her Master's in Public Administration, with a certificate in Community Development. She was born and raised in Miami’s Little Haiti community. CHAD RADOCK New York State Coordina- tor • Local Progress Chad works closely with partner organizations throughout the Empire State to bring progressive policy solutions to our local elected progressives. Chad comes to us from the Alliance for Quality Education where he served as Statewide Cam- paign Coordinator, working with small cities and poor rural areas to ensure adequate school funding regardless of zip code. Chad graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Politics from Assumption College in Worcester, MA.

56 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 KUMAR RAO KATE TERENZI Director of Justice Staff Attorney, Education Justice Transformation • CPD Campaigns • CPD @KumarRaoNYC Kate focuses on CPDs work to disrupt At CPD & Local Prog- the school-to-prison pipeline, particularly ress, Kumar supports part- for students of color and those with mental ner organizations and elected health needs in New York City public schools. officials in the fight for racial She partners with youth directed community equity and criminal justice transformation at the local, organizations to reform harsh policing and discipline state, and federal levels. He is presently a lecturer-in-law policies and represents students in long term suspension at Columbia Law School and a Scholar with the Institute hearings. Kate joins CPD as a Staff Attorney, Education for Social Policy & Understanding. A former litigator and Justice Campaigns. public defender, he has represented thousands of clients in Previously, Kate worked at New York Lawyers for state and federal court, in both criminal and civil matters, the Public Interest (NYLPI) as a Taconic Policy Fellow and has counseled offices on the delivery of legal services in the Disability, Environmental, and Health Justice and effective client representation practices. teams. During her years with NYLPI, in coalition with ARI SCHWARTZ community organizations, she successfully led campaigns to increase the rights of millions of New Yorkers, Program and Communi- including women of color with disabilities, immigrants, cations Manager • Local students, and low income communities. Most recently, in Progress @arischwartz law school, Kate worked with the Civil Rights and Restor- Before joining Local ative Justice Project, Urban Justice Center, Advancement Progress, Ari was lead or- Project, and NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. ganizer at DC Jobs With She also served on the Board of Directors for Community Justice, where he steered a Change, Inc. Kate is a graduate of Northeastern University community-labor coalition and led strategic campaigns. School of Law and Boston College. In that role, Ari developed and coordinated the "DC Just Hours" campaign to win full-time work opportunities and stable schedules in service sector industries. In 2013, he co-coordinated the final coalition push that won both a raise to D.C.'s minimum wage and an expansion of paid sick leave. At DC Jobs With Justice, Ari also led efforts to pass D.C.'s strong oversight laws to combat wage theft and student loan fraud, as well as helped workers recover tens of thousands of dollars in stolen wages. Ari graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and lives in Washington, D.C.

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BRAD LANDER (CHAIR) KRIS BURNETT NEW YORK, NY • Brad Lander is a BALTIMORE, MD • New York City Council Member represent- Kristerfer Burnett, a lifelong ing Brooklyn’s 39th District, and a lead- Baltimorean, represents er on issues of affordable housing, livable District 8 on the Baltimore communities, the environment, and public City Council and lives in the education.Named one of “Today’s Social Edmondson Village commu- Justice Heroes” by The Nation magazine, nity where he and his wife, Lander is the Council’s Deputy Leader for Vanessa, are third-generation homeowners. He was Policy, and chairs the Committee on Rules, Privileges educated through both the Baltimore City and County and Elections. public school systems. He holds degrees from the Uni- Brad’s role as founding co-chair of the Council’s versity of Maryland-College Park and the University of Progressive Caucus, and a leader in efforts to advance Maryland Baltimore County. at City Hall, was covered by The New York Times (“An Kristerfer is a longtime community organizer, a Unassuming Liberal Makes a Rapid Ascent to Power journey that began at a young age as he watched as his Broker“). Brad has fought successfully to reform dis- grandmother organize her neighbors in an effort to save criminatory practices in the NYPD (including establish- their neighborhood from the expansion of Johns Hop- ing the first NYPD Inspector General), win living wage kins Hospital in East Baltimore. He has been a com- jobs and paid sickdays for low-wage workers workers, munity organizer with SEIU 1199, founded Neighbors to protect manufacturing jobs in New York City, and to Without Borders of Greater Southwest Baltimore, and reform tax and zoning regulations to create affordable worked to create the Community Roots Leadership housing for low-income and working class New Yorkers. Development Academy as well as the Edmondson Vil- lage Farmers’ Market. Kristerfer truly believes that the HELEN GYM (VICE-CHAIR) most fulfilling aspects of his life have been giving back PHILADELPHIA, PA • Helen Gym, to those who need it and empowering the residents of chair of the Committee on Children and Baltimore to be change makers. Youth, is a community and education leader whose work across different organizations GREG CASAR supports the right to a quality public edu- AUSTIN, TX • Gregorio cation for all children. As a Councilwoman, “Greg” Casar is a native her primary concern is addressing wide- Texan, the son of Mexican spread poverty in Philadelphia, particularly through immigrants, and an Austin anemphasis on building a quality public education City Council Member repre- system that anchors schools within communities. She senting District 4 for his sec- will continue to push for fairer and more responsible ond term. Greg’s priorities taxation, sustainable investments in neighborhoods, include social equity, shared prosperity, affordability, language access and civil rights, and a focus on the long- environmental stewardship, and public safety for all. term health and safety of Philadelphia residents. Since taking office, Council Member Casar has worked to ensure North Austin families have a seat at the table when it comes to decision-making at City Hall. In his

58 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 first term Casar helped organize the first two tenants in 1997, Andrew helped grow the organization from associations at mobile home parks in Austin—both lo- a small, volunteer-run effort to an $8 million organi- cated in District 4—which unified against unlawful and zation with over 11,000 members, 100 staff, and four unfair actions in their community including evictions. community-based centers in New York City and Long A graduate of the University of Virginia, Greg pre- Island. Andrew helped oversee all aspects of Make the viously served as the Policy Director for Workers De- Road’s work, including the organizing, legal services, fense Project, where he spearheaded campaigns that adult literacy, workforce development, operations and won major policy reforms to improve wages, education, finance departments. and workplace safety across Austin, garnering national Andrew has worked with the Latino Workers’ Cen- attention. First elected in 2014, Greg is the youngest ter, the Neighborhood DefenderService of Harlem, the City Council Member in Austin’s history and serves as Center for Urban Community Services, the Government District 4’s first-ever direct representative. Benefits Unit at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, and MFY Legal Services Mental Health Law Project. An- PHILLIPE drew has been awarded the Union Square Award of the CUNNINGHAM Fund for the City of New York, the Cornerstone Award MINNEAPOLIS, MN of the Jewish Fundsfor Justice, and the Community • Phillipe M. Cunningham Health Leaders Award of the Robert Wood Johnson (pronounced fil-LEAP) is Foundation for his work at MRNY. the Minneapolis City Coun- cilmember representing the TEFERE GEBRE 4th Ward in North Minne- AFL-CIO • Tefere Gebre is the executive apolis. He is the first and only out, trans, man of col- vice president of the AFL-CIO. Tefere has had or elected to office in the United States. Prior to being the unique experience of working at all levels elected after unseating a 50-year family dynasty in 2017, of the labor movement. Tefere has continued Councilman Cunningham served Mayor Betsy Hodges to demonstrate leadership by example. He as her Senior Policy Aide for education, youth success, has focused his attention on building strong racial equity, and LGBTQ+ rights. He also previously partnerships between labor and community worked with youth for over 10 years as a special educa- groups, immigrant rights advocates and civil rights orga- tion teacher in Chicago Public Schools, and as a youth nizations. He has placed particular emphasis on building worker in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, and the the labor movement in the South, where conditions are Twin Cities. As a policy worker and fierce community most oppressive for millions of workers. advocate, Councilman Cunningham’s goals are to break Based on his own experience as a child refugee, intergenerational cycles of poverty and violence and Tefere has brought a passionate and personal perspec- build community wealth with Northsiders already living tive to bear in the labor movement’s fight for comprehen- in the community. His writings have been published in sive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship The White Woman’s Guide to Teaching Black Boys and for millions of immigrant workers and their families. In Millennial Compact with America. He and his husband, the end, it is Tefere’s experience as an immigrant labor Lane, are renters and dads to four rescue pets. activist and local labor council leader that makes him a great complement to President Trumka, of the Mine ANDREW FRIEDMAN Workers, and Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, of the CPD • Andrew came to Electrical Workers, to lead the AFL-CIO. CPD after 15 years building Make the Road New York into the leading democrat- ically-run, immigrant-led community organization in New York State. Since co-founding Make the Road

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 59 LORENA GONZÁLEZ and also sits on the Executive Committee for the Missou- SEATTLE, WA • As one of two city- ri Democratic Party. In such roles, Alderwoman Green wide representatives and the first person of ensures that the needs of St Louis are heard at both the Latino descent elected to serve the Seattle State and National levels. City Council, Councilmember M. Lorena JILLIAN JOHNSON González is a nationally-recognized civil rights leader and community advocate. As a DURHAM, NC • Jil- civil rights attorney she represented people lian Johnson is the Mayor who were victimized by those in authority Pro Tempore of the city of positions. She primarily represented workers in wage Durham, a long-time com- theft and anti-discrimination cases as well as repre- munity organizer and activ- senting victims of police misconduct. ist, and a mother of two. She Born and raised in Washington’s lower Yakima Val- was elected in 2015 on a plat- ley to a Spanish-speaking migrant farmworker family, form of racial, economic, and Councilmember González earned her first paycheck at environmental justice, police accountability, equitable the age of 8, alongside her parents and five siblings. She development, broadening democracy, and centering the relied on scholarships and worked 3 jobs to attend com- voices of those who are most impacted by the issues fac- munity college and later Washington State University. In ing our city. In 2017, she was unanimously elected Mayor 2002 she moved to Seattle to attend Seattle University Pro Tempore by her council colleagues. Jillian serves on Law School, where she graduated with honors in 2005. several boards and city committees independently and Since then she has worked with foundational immigrant through her work on city council, including Durham rights organizations like OneAmerica, El Centro and for All, an organization working to build a multi-racial, Latino Victory Project to ensure Seattle is a Welcoming cross-class, political vehicle in Durham. Originally from City to all. In her two years in office she’s spearhead- Virginia, Jillian moved to Durham in 1999 to attend ed legislation to ban conversion therapy, create secure Duke University and lives in Durham’s West End neigh- scheduling for low-wage workers, allocate $1 million borhood with her partner and two sons. for a legal defense fund for immigrants and refugees ROBIN KNIECH facing immigration proceedings, and pass meaningful DENVER, CO • First police reform. elected to Denver City Coun- MEGAN GREEN cil in 2011, and re-elected in 2015, Robin Kniech is one of ST. LOUIS, MO • Megan Ellyia Green was elected to represent the 15th ward of two At-Large Councilmem- St. Louis in 2014. Since assuming office, bers. Raised in a working Alderwoman Green has become the pro- class family,she has a deep gressive champion of St. Louis, fighting for respect for the value of hard a $15 minimum wage, civilian oversight of work and has dedicated her life to making Denver a bet- our police department, reproductive rights ter place for families and those struggling to make ends for women, and responsible development meet. The Councilwoman has a record of bold accom- with community benefits. She has been an outspoken plishments on expanding access to affordable housing, supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement to ad- including the establishment of a dedicated affordable dress racial disparities that exist within the St. Louis housing fund that will create or preserve at least 6,000 Community, and nation. She also currently sits on the new homes over the next 10 years. Continuum of Care to end homelessness in the St. Louis Other accomplishments include expanding local Region. After being a surrogate for Bernie Sanders’s food access, increasing energy efficiency awareness for Campaign for President, in 2016, Alderwoman Green commercial buildings, and updating Denver’s regula- was elected to represent Missouri as a Member of the tions governing the marijuana industry. The Coun- Democratic National Committee for the next four years cilwoman is active in regional transportation and

60 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 mobility efforts, has led and supported efforts to -ex ated sustainable programming aimed at reforming the pand transparency and civic participation in govern- criminal justice system. She has engaged over 150 youth ment, and leads a Council work group on Housing and which she calls “Junior Commonwealth’s Attorneys” Homelessness. She is the first out member of the LGBT under her “Future Leaders Initiative” program and community to serve on the City Council, and she is the has formed the “Social Media by the Statutes” program mom of a young son. where her team enters the public schools to keep students on the right track. BOB MASTER Under her “Ctrl+Alt+Del Program” she has held CWA • Bob Master, As- dialogue and taught effective re-entry strategies in sem- sistant to the Vice President inars held in the community and inside state prisons and for Legislative and Political has helped reduce recidivism by working with formerly Activities , CWA District One incarcerated citizens to restore their voting rights and Bob Master is Assistant help them become productive community members. to the Vice President for Leg- Three months into Morales’ first term an officer in her islative, Political and Mobili- city killed an unarmed teen. Morales secured an in- zation Activities for District dictment and led the prosecution at jury trial, leading One of the Communications Workers of America, which to a voluntary manslaughter conviction of the officer, represents 145,000 workers in New York, New Jersey and resulting in police accountability in her city. She and New England. He joined the staff of CWA in 1986, is a fierce advocate for justice and a wife and mother of and oversees all aspects of legislative and political ac- four children. tion for the union in the northeast, as well as directing membership mobilization activities during contract MARCELIA NICHOLSON campaigns and strikes at employers like Verizon. Bob MILWAUKEE, WI • played a central role in convening the coalition of unions, Marcelia Nicholson is an community organizations, and progressive activists that award winning activist, and founded the New York State Working Families Party in 1st Vice-Chairwoman of the 1998. In New Jersey, he helped to found the New Jersey Milwaukee County Board of Working Families Alliance, that state’s affiliate to the Supervisors, representing national Working Families network. In the last several District 5. Born and raised months, he was one of the lead organizers of the We the in Milwaukee, WI, she works to provide opportunities People 2018 forum in Washington, D.C., which brought that were given to her as a young woman growing up together 1200 grassroots activists and union members in one of the nation’s poorest and most incarcerated from over a dozen organizations to press for a progres- zip-codes. She is a proud product of Milwaukee Public sive agenda with five key Democratic leaders from the Schools and an honors graduate of the University of US Senate. Bob’s articles about labor and politics have Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to her election, she taught appeared in The New Labor Forum, Working USA and 4th grade at Pierce Elementary School and served in The Nation. Bob is married to Nancy Goldhill, Director various capacities. Supervisor Nicholson is a champion of Legal Services of Staten Island, and they have two for working people, public education, economic devel- children–Ben, aged 29 and Ilana, aged 26—and lives in opment, and community empowerment. Her past work Park Slope, Brooklyn. as a union activist, community organizer, and educator, helps to inform her policy and community work. She has STEPHANIE MORALES sponsored over 40 pieces of legislation, including a $15 PORTSMOUTH, VA • living wage ordinance, eviction reduction program, an Stephanie Morales was the anti-discrimination resolution, and funding for woman first woman to be elected of color seeking entrepreneurship. Commonwealth’s Attorney in her city in 2015. A month after taking office, she cre-

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 61 REGINA ROMERO Sahli-Wells holds two bachelor’s degrees from UCLA TUSCON, AZ • Regina exemplifies where she majored in World Arts and Cultures, and in the Southwestern immigrant experience. French. She lived in France for 14 years and has traveled She was the first of her family to vote and extensively, studying visual anthropology, conducting the first to graduate from college. Regina’s sociological research, and working as a translator. twenty years of advocacy for communities BECKY WASSERMAN of color and equity for women, reproductive justice, local control, working families and SEIU • Becky Wasser- fair wages have earned her more than 10 years on the man is the Deputy Director Tucson City Council. She has also been a leader in the of Government Relations fight against the divisive border wall and against racist at SEIU, the nation’s fast- legislation like Arizona’s SB1070. est-growing union, repre- Regina is a graduate of the University of Arizona senting 2 million workers and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Education in healthcare, public and program. Regina is also passionate about her work at the property services. Becky has been designing advocacy Center for Biological Diversity where she works to build strategy and developing grassroots campaigns for over a more inclusive environmental movement. Regina is a dozen years. Formerly, she was Director of Campaigns married and has two bi-lingual and bi-cultural children. and Organizing for American Jewish World Service Many mornings you can find Regina hiking beautiful (AJWS), launching a new organizing department at this Tumamoc Hill $50+ million human rights non-profit. Before joining AJWS, Becky was the Deputy Direc- MEGHAN SAHLI-WELLS tor of Government Affairs at J Street working on Middle CULVER CITY, CA • Mayor Meghan East peace, she coordinated a multi-year campaign for Sahli-Wells is the fifth woman to be elect- national labor law reform as Government Relations ed to the Culver City Council in the city’s Manager at American Rights at Work (ARAW) and 102-year history. Her most notable achieve- was President of the United States Student Associa- ments include: making Culver City a 100% tion (USSA). Becky has been trained by the Rockwood renewable energy city, making Culver City Leadership program, Wellstone Action and the Mid- a "Sanctuary City," championing affordable west Academy. Originally from Swampscott, MA, she housing, equity and sustainable water initiatives, and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. spearheading efforts to phase out oil drilling in the In- Currently, Becky lives in Silver Spring, MD. glewood Oil Field. Known as “the Biking Mayor,” Sahli-Wells helped craft Culver City’s first bike and pedestrian master plan and Safe Routes to School program, and is focused on creating safe, healthy streets for all. She is also responsible for bringing CicLAvia’s signature car-free streets event to Culver City. Sahli-Wells is a founding Boardmember of Local Progress, a national network of progressive elected officials. Her state leadership includes co-chairing Elect- ed Officials to Protect California, serving on the Zero Traffic Fatalities Task Force and the Board of the Local Government Commission. Regionally, she a Board Di- rector of Clean Power Alliance, Westside Cities Council of Governments, and Regional Council for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). She previously served on the Exposition Metro Line Con- struction Authority board.

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Municipal officials—mayors, city councilmembers, KEY HIGHLIGHTS: county commissioners, district attorneys, and school • Minneapolis and Durham have successfully board members—can play a unique role in the progressive reallocated budget funding away from police officers movement. They have jurisdiction over taxation, land use, and to services that focus on holistic violence budget priorities, procurement, and local policy. As public prevention and the health and well-being of low- leaders, they also exercise powers beyond policymak- income communities of color. ing: elected officials provide moral authority and clarity, • https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/30/ convening, negotiating, and urging the public to action. mpls-budget-amendment-removes-million- Using a unique model that centralizes policy ex- dollars-police pertise, builds capacity for local officials and unites • https://theappeal.org/durham-city-council-says- members across jurisdictions, Local Progress brings no-to-more-police/ an unprecedented network of elected officials into • Austin’s Freedom Cities policy has led to a 57% collective action alongside community, advocacy and decline in discretionary arrests over 2018 numbers. progressive movement partners. By working together • https://www.statesman.com/news/20190419/ across cities, towns, counties and school boards, Local freedom-city-policies-yield-drop-in- Progress members can accelerate policy progress at misdemeanor-arrests-austin-police-say the local level, build power at the state level and elevate • Amid a highly charged local controversy, Santa Clara issues to the national stage. County maintained some of the country's highest We are currently building collective network strat- standards on limiting ICE collaboration. egies in four areas: immigrant rights, police reform, and • https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ economic justice and affordable housing. Santa-Clara-still-reeling-from-murder- POLICE REFORM case-13936813.php?t=b4519d24ec IMMIGRANT PROTECTIONS STEERING COMMITTEE: Jillian Johnson (Durham), Megan Green (St. Louis), and Dorcey Applyrs (Albany) STEERING COMMITTEE: Helen Gym (Philadelphia), Police reform continues to a growing area of work Greg Casar (Austin), Colby Sledge (Nashville), Lorena as more elected officials are committing to ending police Gonzalez (Seattle), Pious Ali (Portland, ME), Samba Bal- killings and the War on Drugs, as well as and reversing deh (Madison) and David Cortese (Santa Clara County) mass incarceration. In 2018 we completed and launched Immigrants and refugees are under attack every Reform/Transform: A Policing Toolkit. The toolkit al- day. Our mantra of welcoming new arrivals to the US is lows localities to assess their policing policies, and we under attack. The concerted effort to end our immigra- are in the process of launching those findings and using tion system as we know it while deporting millions of this as an opportunity to shift the national conversation hard-working people escalates every day. Our work on around redefining public safety. The toolkit looks at immigrant rights includes supporting LP members in topics like decriminalization, ending collaboration with protecting immigrant communities in their respective ICE, prison diversion, civilian oversight, bans on profil- jurisdictions using local policies. Additionally, we have ing, increasing data and transparency, and more. Once been working to mitigate the impact of federal attacks, we finish the tool, LP members will evaluate their cities' the incarceration of children, ending private prisons, police forces, identify shared priorities for collaborative and family separation. It's a key priority to ensure that work, and publicize these findings for 14 jurisdictions. local leaders are a part of the national conversation in

64 PROGRAM | LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI #LP2019 fighting back against the administration’s anti-immi- progress, as well as working with LP members to support grant attacks. worker organizing, raise standards across industries, KEY HIGHLIGHTS and strengthen union power. This year, we have devel- • In June 2019, 200+ LP members signed onto a oped an economic justice program that continues to letter calling Trump to end family separations and push the envelope on both policy and creative tactics Congress to reduce funding for enforcement. We did to support worker power and organizing. In states like this in partnership with United We Dream. Texas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, we have helped • Nearly 150 LP members signed onto our abolish ICE members in setting a shared economic agenda for their letter in July 2018. states while advancing policy where possible in their • Held a call with CPC leaders Congressman Mark localities. Additionally, we have seized opportunities Pocan (D-WI) and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal to mobilize around and harness the momentum from (D-WA), along with coalition partners United We new federal policy possibilities, such as the $15 wage Dream and Immigrant Legal Resource Center which legislation in the House. Lastly, we have continued to focused on the pivot from abolishing ICE to the coordinate among members and localities around the budget and what local leaders could do to support Amazon HQ2 competition and begun to pivot this work the federal agenda. to support a platform for equitable development that • Mobilized the network to submit comments during garners progressive revenue and outcomes for localities. the open comment period for both proposed DHHS KEY HIGHLIGHTS rule changes around the “public charge” and • Supported multi-jurisdiction statewide efforts for “Flores” rules but were unable to track the number economic justice in Texas, North Carolina, and of comments submitted since they went through their Wisconsin. In Texas, supported successful campaign database. Internally, we estimate that 40-50 people to maintain paid sick days victories in the face of submitted comments. state interference. • Mobilized LP members in North Carolina and Florida • Supported and coordinated cross-jurisdiction to fight back against anti-immigrant bills and provide solidarity on policy efforts including a living wage, political cover to the NC Governor to support him in fair workweek, paid sick days, and more vetoing the bill. • Facilitated an exchange and various events between ECONOMIC JUSTICE elected officials and community organizations in four cities navigating Amazon’s presence during the STEERING COMMITTEE: Zach Adamson (Indianap- Amazon HQ2 competition olis), Liz Brown (Columbus), Kris Burnett (Baltimore), • Mobilized dozens of members around the federal $15 Phillipe Cunningham (Minneapolis), Teresa Mosque- minimum wage legislation da (Seattle), Marcelia Nicholson (Milwaukee County), HOUSING Tefere Gebre (AFL-CIO), Bob Master (CWA), Becky Wasserman (SEIU) STEERING COMMITTEE: Canek Aguirre (Alexandria, Localities have led successful efforts from raising VA), Vernetta Alston (Durham, NC), Jay Banks (New the minimum wage to guaranteeing paid sick days and Orleans, LA), Kate Burke (Spokane, WA), Rysheema a fair workweek in dozens of places across the country. Dixon (Wilmington, DE), Chloe Eudaly (Portland, OR), These efforts have collectively improved the lives of Ken Russell (City of Miami, FL), Mitra Jalali Nelson (St. millions of people. We remain focused on this policy Paul, MN), Robin Kniech (Denver, CO), Brad Lander

#LP2019 LOCAL PROGRESS 2019: EQUITY. POWER. JUSTICE. | DETROIT, MI | PROGRAM 65 (New York City), and Teresa Mosqueda (Seattle, WA). In 2019, we will host our first national housing convening in partnership with policy and advocacy partners where we will Local Progress’s deeper focus housing in both hot market and mixed market cities, and have a broader network-wide conversation around tenant protections. Our goal is to, in partnership with Grounded Solutions, launch a small cohort program for members from mixed-market cities in we will provide technical support and education, and set up site visits and in-person meetings to allow members to learn from their peers in similar localities. Additionally, LP will introduce a series of webinars for the full network in which we’ll touch on topics like zoning and density (featuring recent work in Minneapolis), opportunity zones, renter protections, funding and preserving affordability. KEY HIGHLIGHTS: • Held our first-ever housing strategy meeting in Chicago with 11 members and experts, in addition to experts from Grounded Solutions, Enterprise, CPD, Furman Community of Practice and New York Communities for Change (NYCC). • Partnered with members of the Minneapolis City Council and Planning Department to host a webinar on the development of their 2040 plan and its grounding in racial equity • Secured support to fund more in-depth work in 2019–2020.

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