Communications Institute
The Opportunity Agenda’s Communications Institute is an annual event that brings together diverse social justice leaders from around the nation for intensive communications skill-building and support. The Institute, which takes place in New York City, is a four-day residency that prepares the movement’s up-and-coming voices to cut through the noise with effective messages that will persuade and mobilize key audiences.
Glenn Martin
Founder, JustLeadership USAGlenn is the founder of JustLeadershipUSA, a national nonpartisan membership organization whose goal is to reduce by 2030 the number of people in prison by half. He is co-founder of the Education Inside Out Coalition, a 2011-2012 America’s Leaders of Change National Urban Fellow, and a member of the boards...
Get To know GlennGreisa Martinez Rosas Martinez Rosas
Executive Director, United We DreamGreisa Martinez Rosas is Executive Director at United We Dream. United We Dream (UWD) is a national nonpartisan, membership-based organization of over 100,000 immigrant youth and allies. Led by its 55 affiliate organizations in 26 states, UWD advocates for the dignity and fair treatment of undocumented immigrant youth and their...
Get To know Greisa Martinez RosasJanos Marton
Director of Policy and Campaigns, JustLeadershipUSAJanos Marton is the Director of Policy and Campaigns at JustLeadershipUSA. A born and raised New Yorker, Janos attended Dartmouth College and worked on political campaigns and disaster relief before returning home to attend Fordham Law School. As an attorney, Janos worked at a civil rights firm as special counsel...
Get To know JanosC. Nicole Mason
Director of Research and Policy Initiatives, National Council for Research on WomenC. Nicole Mason has worked in advocacy and public education at the local, state and national levels with a special focus on women and underserved communities for the last 13 years. In her research and writing, she continues to investigate the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other markers...
Get To know C. NicoleTania Mattos
Policy & Northeast Monitoring Manager, Freedom for ImmigrantsTania Mattos is an Aymara descendent, Bolivian born, Queens-based organizer, activist, and strategist. She focuses on assisting community-based visitation and human rights monitoring programs in detention centers and supports policy and advocacy efforts at the federal and state level throughout the northeast region.
Get To know TaniaGuillermo Mayer
President and CEO, Public Advocates Inc.Guillermo Mayer is the President/CEO at Public Advocates Inc. in San Francisco, specializing in education and transit equity litigation and advocacy. Mayer worked in the California Senate, first as legislative aide for former Senator Hilda Solis, and subsequently as legislative director for former Senator Tom Hayden. Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico,...
Get To know GuillermoTiffany McFadden
Volunteer, Alliance of Families for JusticeTiffany's experience as a foster youth has made her resilient, aware, humble, empathetic, as well as a fierce advocate for children and families who have experienced situations similar to hers. After many years, she ultimately learned that what happened to her goes beyond having a mother with a criminal record...
Get To know TiffanyMaria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Executive Director, Drug Policy AllianceAs the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, Maria is at the helm of the leading organization in the US fighting to end the war on drugs in the United States and beyond. Previously, Maria held several positions at Human Rights Watch, including as co-director of its US Program,...
Get To know MariaTani Mills
Chief of External and Legislative Affairs, Center for Employment OpportunitiesTani Mills is the Chief of External and Legislative Affairs for the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), a nonprofit corporation that provides employment services to men and women with criminal convictions in New York. Mills is responsible for external affairs including business development in New York City, community presentations and...
Get To know TaniArmando Minjares Monarrez
Community Leader, Sunflower Community ActionArmando immigrated to the United States in the summer of 2001 at age 15 to the little town of Ulysses, Kansas, with his brothers and single mother. They came with tourist visas and overstayed them. By the time he graduated high school he realized he couldn’t afford to go to...
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