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.
Inimai 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.
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Nusrat 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...
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Jean 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,...
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Khalil 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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Bettina Damiani
Director, Good Jobs New YorkBettina Damiani is the Director of Good Jobs New York, a project of Good Jobs First and the Fiscal Policy Institute, which seeks to make economic development subsidies more accountable. At Good Jobs New York, Damiani brought more transparency and public participation to development projects, including the rebuilding of Lower...
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Flozell Daniels, Jr.
Flozell Daniels, Jr. has served as the President and CEO of the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation (LDRF), now the Foundation for Louisiana, since December 2007. Its mission is to invest in people and practices that work to reduce vulnerability and build stronger, more sustainable communities statewide. Prior to LDRF, Daniels...
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Crystal DeBoise
Co-director, Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice CenterCrystal has worked extensively providing direct services to survivors of human trafficking, sex workers, and survivors of violence. Crystal has worked extensively providing direct services to survivors of human trafficking, sex workers, and survivors of violence. In addition, she has been a community organizer and works on policy and advocacy...
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Kate Desormeau
Staff Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)Kate Desormeau is a staff attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), where she has worked since 2015. Prior to joining NRDC, Desormeau was a staff attorney with the Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She also worked as a researcher at the Carr Center for...
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Astrid Dominguez
Advocacy Coordinator, ACLU of TexasAstrid Dominguez joined the ACLU of Texas in May 2012 as a Border Rights Fellow coordinating the U.S.-Mexico Binational Abuse Documentation Project at the Texas border. She later transitioned to the position of Advocacy Coordinator for the Lower Rio Grande Valley office. Astrid has focused her work in the Rio...
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Scott Douglas
Executive Director, Greater Birmingham MinistriesScott Douglas attended the University of Tennessee, where he co-founded their Black Student Union. Following work as an aircraft assembler, he held positions as Executive Director of the Southern Organizing Committee, Program Officer for the Partnership for Democracy Foundation, and the first Environmental Justice Organizer for the Sierra Club. Currently,...
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