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.
Keith Rushing
2013 Communications Fellow, The Opportunity AgendaKeith Rushing, a native of Queens, New York, is a graduate of Carleton College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He worked as a print journalist for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Virginia, and California. He worked in a number of reporting beats including local government, education, and crime....
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Topeka K. Sam
Founder and Executive Director, The Ladies of Hope Ministries (The LOHM)Topeka K. Sam is the Founder and Executive Director of The Ladies of Hope Ministries – The LOHM – whose mission is to help disenfranchised and marginalized women and girls transition back into society through spiritual empowerment, education, entrepreneurship, and advocacy. She is also the co-founder of HOPE HOUSE NYC...
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Ameesha Sampat
Communications and Operations Coordinator, Immigration EqualityAmeesha Sampat is the Communications and Operations Coordinator at Immigration Equality, based in the Washington, DC office. Originally from New Jersey, she graduated from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University after volunteering in social services in Washington, DC and studying human rights abuses abroad. Prior to...
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Linda Sarsour
National Advocacy Director, National Network for Arab American Communities; Executive Director, Arab American Association of New YorkLinda Sarsour is a working woman, community activist, and mother of three. She is a Palestinian Muslim American and a self-proclaimed “pure New Yorker.” Currently she is the National Advocacy Director for the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) and locally serving as the Director of the Arab American...
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Katherine Sastre
Campaign Strategist, New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant JusticeKaty Sastre is responsible for coordinating and supporting the NJAIJ’s campaign priorities, ensuring members and partners are actively engaged.
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Brittny Saunders
Senior Advocate, Center for Social InclusionBrittny Saunders is a Senior Advocate at the Center for Social Inclusion. While in law school, she worked with a number of racial justice organizations, including the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment and the ACLU Racial Justice Program, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Journal, the Harvard Black...
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Kate Scott
Assistant Director, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action CenterKate Scott has served as Assistant Director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) since April of 2010. Kate began working with GNOFHAC as an undergraduate intern in January 2004 and has served in a variety of different roles with the organization since then, including administrative assistant,...
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Moises Serrano
Organizer, El CambioMoises Serrano is a proud Latino, undocumented, and gay man. Having lived in the United States his whole life, he is proud to call himself a Mexican-American. Moises Serrano is a proud Latino, undocumented, and gay man. Having lived in the United States his whole life, he is proud to...
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Silky Shah
Communications Director, Detention Watch NetworkSilky Shah is the Communications Director of the Detention Watch Network (DWN), a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to reform the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system. Silky has been active in the immigrant rights, anti-war, prison reform and racial justice movements for nearly a decade as an...
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Alexis Sims
Communication Director, Mothering JusticeAlexis Sims works as communication director for Mothering Justice. She graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor’s in Sociology. Her background includes work as a creative strategist for businesses in food, technology, beauty, entertainment, and the built-environment industries. Alexis loves to create relationships and narratives for viewers, supporters, and...
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