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.
Eben Cathey
Communications Coordinator, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights CoalitionEben Cathey joined TIRRC as the Communications Coordinator three months ago. He was born in Smyrna, TN and graduated in 2006 from Rhodes College in Memphis. Eben was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study in South Africa for a year, where he earned a master’s degree in Political and...
Get To know EbenDanny Cendejas
Organizing Director, Detention Watch NetworkDanny Cendejas joined Detention Watch Network as Organizing Director in 2016. Previously, Danny organized with Texas Organizing Project. While with Texas Organizing Project, Danny drove the immigrants' rights campaign in Dallas and then statewide as Immigration Campaign Field Director. Danny graduated from the University of Virginia in 2011 with a...
Get To know DannyBill Chandler
Executive Director, Mississippi Immigrants Rights AllianceBill Chandler began with union organizing and community activism in the 1960s in Los Angeles. He participated in the 1965 grape boycott effort, organizing cross-border actions with Mexican and American workers to support the United Farm Workers in their efforts to improve conditions. Beginning in 1989 in Mississippi, he organized...
Get To know BillSunu Chandy
Legal Director, National Women’s Law CenterSunu P. Chandy is the legal director of the National Women’s Law Center where she oversees the Center’s litigation efforts and helped to create the Center’s Legal Network for Gender Equity, building policies to guide the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund. She also provides guidance for the Center’s policy positions towards...
Get To know SunuEmily Chatterjee
Senior Counsel, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education FundEmily Chatterjee is Senior Counsel at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund. The Leadership Conference is the nation's premier civil and human rights coalition, charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and...
Get To know EmilyBrittany Cheatham
Communications Manager, Forward JusticeBrittany Cheatham is a strategic communicator focused on using storytelling and narrative change to propel movements forward, disrupt harmful stereotypes, empower our communities, and fight for racial and social justice.
Get To know BrittanyInimai Chettiar
Justice Program Director, Brennan Center for JusticeInimai is adept in applying economics and cost-benefit analysis to criminal justice reform efforts; through this, she demonstrates that helping struggling communities can help the whole country achieve economic and social prosperity. She has published extensively on economic policy, criminal law reform, and racial inequalities.
Get To know InimaiNusrat Choudhury
Deputy Director, ACLU Racial Justice ProgramNusrat Choudhury is the deputy director of the ACLU Racial Justice Program, which is dedicated to advancing opportunity and equality for communities of color in the United States by fighting racial bias and drivers of inequality in education, housing, the economy, and the criminal legal system. She leads litigation and...
Get To know NusratJean Chung
Communications Manager, The Sentencing ProjectJean is the Communications Manager at The Sentencing Project, where she has worked since 2012. Jean is the Communications Manager at The Sentencing Project, where she has worked since 2012. Prior to joining The Sentencing Project, she served as a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center,...
Get To know JeanKhalil Cumberbatch
Policy Associate, Legal Action CenterKhalil A. Cumberbatch is a formerly incarcerated advocate for social justice movements within the NYC area. He has worked within the re-entry community in NYC since 2010, when he was released after serving almost seven years in the NYS prison system. Since his release, Khalil has worked with various nonprofits...
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