
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.
Bill 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 BrittanyNusrat 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 NusratSage Crump
Sage Crump is an artist, culture strategist, and facilitator who expands and deepens the work of cultural workers/arts organizations in social justice organizing and supports social justice organizations in understanding the role art and culture can play in movement building.
Get To know SageKhalil 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...
Get To know KhalilFlozell 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 FlozellAnnie Del Hierro
Annie Del Hierro (b. Quito, Ecuador) is a community-engaged visual artist, organizer, culture promoter, and educator based in Brooklyn - the ancestral and unceded land of the Lenape. Her work explores history, individual and collective memories, and identity utilizing collage art, wheat-pasting, photography, and video as tools for her practice.
Get To know AnnieKate 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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