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.
Alisa Welleck
Co-Executive Director, Immigrant Defense ProjectAlisa is Co-Executive Director of the Immigrant Defense Project, where she helps guide IDP's work to fight for the rights of all immigrants accused or convicted of crimes. Through advocacy, community education, and litigation, Alisa focuses on challenging programs that entangle local law enforcement and Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Get To know AlisaAisha Wells
Paid Family Leave Organizer, Mothering JusticeAisha Wells organizes with mamas of color in the community to understand the paid leave issues in the workplace to help pass legislation.
Get To know AishaJheanelle Wilkins
Director of State and Local Government Affairs, The Leadership ConferenceJheanelle Wilkins is an advocate for underserved communities and dedicated to creating greater opportunity for all people to live their best lives. She has pursued this passion through advocacy for a decade at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation’s premier civil rights coalition, where she is...
Get To know JheanelleCheryl Wilkins
Associate Director, The Center for JusticeCheryl Wilkins is committed to ending the nation’s reliance on incarceration, developing new approaches to safety and justice, and participating in the national and global conversation around developing effective criminal justice policy.
Get To know CherylAlisha Williams
Senior Staff Attorney, Peter Cicchino Youth ProjectAlisha Williams works with homeless or street-involved queer and trans youth, providing free civil legal services at the Peter Cicchino Youth Project. Prior to working at PCYP, Alisha was at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where they served as the Director of the Prisoner Justice Project from 2012 to 2014....
Get To know AlishaPamela Winn
Founding Director, RestoreHER US.AmericaKnown as "The Face of Dignity For Incarcerated Women", Pamela Winn is an activist from Atlanta, GA who studied Biology at Spelman College, received three degrees in Nursing, and worked over 10 years as a Registered Women’s Health Nurse prior to serving a 78-month federal sentence for a white-collar crime...
Get To know PamelaGina Womak
Executive Director, Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated ChildrenGina Womack is the Director and Co-Founder of Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC), a statewide membership-based organization dedicated to creating a better life for Louisiana's youth who are involved, or at risk of becoming involved, in the juvenile justice system. Working with allies in Louisiana, FLIC closed...
Get To know GinaOmair Zabih
Staff Attorney, Nebraska AppleseedOmaid Zabih is a Staff Attorney with the Immigrant Integration and Civic Participation Program at Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest. Nebraska Appleseed is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public interest law center dedicated to equal justice and full opportunity for all Nebraskans. The mission of Appleseed’s immigrant program...
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