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.
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...
Get To know BettinaFlozell 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...
Get To know FlozellCrystal 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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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...
Get To know KateAstrid 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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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,...
Get To know ScottJane Duong
Director of Programs & Advocacy, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community DevelopmentJane Duong is currently the National Housing Program Manager for the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD). At National CAPACD, Duong directed the development and implementation of the first HUD-approved comprehensive housing, foreclosure and financial education network focused on the needs of low- and moderate-income Asian American...
Get To know JaneSoffiyah Elijah
Executive Director, Correctional Association of New YorkSoffiyah Elijah is the Executive Director of the Correctional Association (CA) of New York. She is the first woman and the first person of color to lead this extraordinary organization in its mission to create a fairer and more humane criminal justice system. Under her leadership, the CA now celebrates...
Get To know SoffiyahBrian Erickson
Border Policy Strategist, ACLU of New Mexico Regional Center for Border Rights (RCBR)Brian Erickson joined the ACLU of New Mexico Regional Center for Border Rights (RCBR) in August of 2010 as a Border Servant Corps volunteer to support and eventually lead RCBR community organizing and abuse documentation initiatives. In his current role of Border Policy Strategist, Brian coordinates policy advocacy, communications, and...
Get To know BrianJordan Estevao
Director, Save the American Dream Campaign, National People's ActionJordan Estevao is the Director of National People's Action's Bank Accountability Campaign, a national effort to mobilize communities throughout the country in the fight to hold banks accountable. He was the lead organizer of the 2009 Showdown in Chicago that included three days of direct action targeting the American Bankers...
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