
Our Fellows
The Opportunity Agenda’s Communications Institute Fellows are media-ready experts on some of the country’s most urgent challenges, coming largely from communities most affected by those challenges. For journalists seeking voices with a grassroots perspective that links economic opportunity, criminal justice, immigrant opportunity, and racial justice issues to the lived experiences of Americans, Communications Fellows are ideal spokespeople.
Ronald Bey-Simpson
Alumni Associate, JustLeadershipUSARonald D. Simpson-Bey is the Alumni Associate for JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA) and a 2015 Leading with Conviction Fellow with JLUSA. He serves on the steering team of the Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI), a former Program Associate with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), and Research Assistant at the University...
Get To know RonaldJanaé Bonsu
National Public Policy Chair, Black Youth Project 100Janaé Bonsu is a Black queer feminist activist-scholar and organizer with over five years of policy research and advocacy experience. She currently serves as the National Public Policy Chair of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), an activist member-led organization of Black 18- to 35-year-olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom...
Get To know JanaéSheri Bradford
Sheri Bradford is in the film and television industry, working in animation and and creating art wherever she can.
Get To know SheriIsaac Bryan
Director of Research and Municipal Projects, Rowe Policy+MediaIsaac Bryan is an expert on the criminal justice system and public policy implementation. Bryan is also a lead researcher for the Million Dollar Hoods Project at UCLA. His recent report " The Price for Freedom" received national attention for its first-ever in-depth look at the quantifiable impact of the...
Get To know IsaacRosa Calderon
Community Leader, North Alabama Committee for Immigrant Justice/Alabama Coalition for Immigrant JusticeRosa Calderon came to the United States at the early age of six. Rosa was able to adjust her status due to the fact that her father had received his green card under the immigration reform of 1986. Her family started the process in 1994 and it took over 8...
Get To know RosaKaren Cassandra Tumlin
Managing Attorney, National Immigration Law Center (NILC)Ms. Tumlin focuses on promoting the rights of low-income immigrants through litigation and administrative advocacy. Currently she is litigating cases challenging state anti-immigrant ordinances and federal immigration detention policies. Her practice also includes litigation on due process, detention, and employment issues. Before joining NILC as a Skadden Fellow in 2005,...
Get To know KarenRaquel Castañeda-López
Former Detroit City Council MemberRaquel Castañeda-López, a lifelong Detroiter, made history in November 2013 by becoming the first Latina elected to the Detroit City Council. A social worker by trade, Castañeda-López has over ten years of experience in the non-profit sector and is committed to working for social justice. She developed a strong resident...
Get To know RaquelEben 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 DannyAdamu Chan
Adamu Chan is a filmmaker, writer, and community organizer from the Bay Area who was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison during one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country. He produced numerous short films while incarcerated, using his vantage point and experience as an incarcerated person as a...
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