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.
Mary Small
Policy Director, Detention Watch NetworkMary Small is the Policy Director at Detention Watch Network (DWN) where she is responsible for leading DWN's research, policy analysis, litigation, and congressional advocacy in strategic ways to dismantle the United States’ detention industry. Prior to joining DWN, she was a Protection Advisor at the United Nations High Commissioner...
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Nour Soubani
Lead Community Organizer, Campaign to Take on HateNour Soubani is the lead community organizer for the Campaign to Take on Hate in Dearborn and Detroit, MI. Through the Campaign, she works on issues of surveillance, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism and discrimination, and on building power within these communities to resist systemic racism of all forms. She graduated...
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Mandy Stark Culbertson
Senior Director of Communications, Caring Across GenerationsMandy Culbertson, Senior Director of Communications at Caring Across Generations, loves shaping narratives that challenge norms, change behavior, and spur others to action. She believes in the power of media and content to tell the stories that matter and the inherent ability of good storytelling to create common ground.
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Melva Steps
Program Director, Fair CountMelva Steps, Program Director at Fair Count, has been organizing in Georgia for over 30 years with a focus on civic engagement, elections and voting, family violence, substance abuse, and mental wellness.
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Nailah Summers
Co-Founder and Communications Director, Dream DefendersNailah is a co-founder and the new Communications Director for the Dream Defenders. She attended the University of Florida, where she majored in African American Studies with a minor in Philosophy. She lives in her native Miami with her pit bull and two cats.
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Ivy O. Suriyopas
Director, Anti-Trafficking Initiative, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)Ivy O. Suriyopas is the Anti-Trafficking Initiative Director at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). She provides legal representation, conducts community education, and engages in policy advocacy on human trafficking issues. This legal representation includes immigration assistance, criminal justice advocacy, and civil litigation for claims involving the...
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Caitlin Swain
Executive Director, Forward JusticeCaitlin Swain is the Executive Director of Forward Justice, a law, policy, and strategy center dedicated to civil rights, racial justice, and social and economic change in the South. She previously worked for the Advancement Project as a Skadden Fellow, where she supported grassroots efforts to end the over-criminalization of...
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Catherine Tactaquin
Executive Director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee RightsCatherine Tactaquin is Executive Director and a co-founder of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR). Since 1986, NNIRR has worked to promote the rights for all immigrants, regardless of immigration status, through national advocacy campaigns, coalition-building, and support for immigrant community organizing and empowerment. In 1994, Catherine...
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Mindy Tarlow
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Employment OpportunitiesMindy Tarlow is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), a nonprofit corporation that provides employment services to men and women with criminal convictions in New York. Prior to joining CEO, Tarlow spent ten years at the New York City Office of Management...
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Stephanie Teatro
Director of Climate Justice & Migration, The Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New AmericansStephanie is the Director of Climate Justice and Migration at the National Partnership for New Americans. In this role, Stephanie helps lead the Climate Justice Collaborative, an initiative to build the capacity of immigrant justice organizations to powerfully join the fight for climate justice.
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