Jeff Bryant
Jeff Bryant Associate Fellow at Campaign for America’s Future and owner of a marketing and communications consultancy in Chapel Hill, NC. He has written extensively about public education policy.
Stan Collender
Stan Collender is a former New Yorker who, after getting a graduate degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, moved to Washington to get it out of his system. That was 35 years ago.
Richard Eskow
Richard (RJ) Eskow is a well-known blogger and writer, a former Wall Street executive and a former musician. He has experience in health insurance and economics, occupational health, risk management, finance, and IT.
Leo Gerard
Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), took office in 2001 after the retirement of former president George Becker.
Dave Johnson
Dave has more than 20 years of technology industry experience. His earlier career included technical positions, including video game design at Atari and Imagic.
Digby
Digby is the pseudonym of blogger Heather Parton from Santa Monica, California who founded the blog Hullabaloo. .
Sara Robinson
Sara Robinson is one of the few trained social futurists in North America. Her skill set includes trend analysis, scenario development, futures research, social change theories, systems thinking, and strategic planning.
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Brian Albert
Chief Operating Officer
Brian Albert is the Chief Operating Officer for Campaign for America’s Future, overseeing such administrative and financial functions as accounting, facilities management, legal/contracts, information technology, board of directors, human resource management and benefits administration. Albert started at CAF in 2004, after TomPaine.com, a group where he held the same position, merged with the Institute for America’s Future. Prior to that, he worked in nonprofit and consumer advocacy organizations where he focused on fundraising, membership development, marketing, accounting and human resource management. Some issues that motivate him are health care, green jobs and economic equality. He graduated from Amherst College, where he studied religion and Spanish, and received an MBA from George Washington University. Originally from Massachusetts, Albert has lived in the District since 1989.
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Jeff Bryant
Writer
Jeff Bryant is an associate fellow at Campaign for America’s Future. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he started working with CAF in 2011. In addition to his work with CAF, Bryant runs a marketing and communications consultancy from Chapel Hill, N.C., working with Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, the National Museum for Women in the Arts and other prominent nonprofits. In addition to these groups, he has also worked with PBS and National Geographic. At CAF, he writes and participates in panels focused on education policy. He has been working on an advocacy platform for the Education Opportunity Network, supported by a partnership of Opportunity to Learn and Institute for America’s Future. Though education is his primary focus at CAF, he also works to advance human rights through the progressive movement. Bryant was raised in a Goldwater Republican household, and his father was the first Republican county judge elected in Texas since Reconstruction. He credits his MFA in creative writing for changing his worldview.
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Richard Eskow
Writer
Richard (RJ) Eskow is a well-known blogger and writer, a former Wall Street executive, an experienced consultant, and a former musician. He has experience in health insurance and economics, occupational health, benefits, risk management, finance, and information technology. He has a somewhat unique perspective on the current financial crisis, since he worked for AIG for a number of years (although not in its infamous Financial Products division). He has experience in financial and data analysis, systems design, operations, management, and long-range forecasting. He is among “fifty of the world’s leading futurologists” whose “hopes, fears, and best predictions” are collected in a 2011 book entitled “The Rough Guide to the Future.” He is also one of three “previously unknown” bloggers credited with helping The Huffington Post achieve its success in Eric Boehlert’s landmark book on blogging and politics. As an (occasionally) working musician and songwriter, he has appeared regularly at venues such as CBGB’s and the Washington Folk Festival; his most recent major musical appearance was as the “opening act” for Gen. Wesley Clark at a Democratic Party fundraiser in 2007.
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Jasmine Goodrich
Senior Development Manager
Originally from northern Indiana, she came to CAF in February 2012 after graduating from Indiana University the previous May with a degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies and Sociology. She relocated to Washington, D.C., to manage several campaigns for groups such as the AARP and Amnesty International, and was an event assistant with the National Partnership for Women and Families. At CAF, Goodrich is involved in fundraising, donor engagement and event planning. Her interests include civil rights, women’s rights, and animal rights. An active volunteer in her community and church, she enjoys playing the piano and violin, reading feminist literature, and shopping. She lives with her two guinea pigs in Alexandria, Va.
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Terrance Heath
Web Producer
Heath became one of the first “professional bloggers” when he joined the staff EchoDitto as Blog Master – just six months after launching his own blog in 2003. While at EchoDitto, Heath served as chief blogging “evangelist” and advisor to a wide range of corporate, union, and organizational clients, and helped develop and refine the best practices many companies and organizations use in their online outreach. Heath’s personal blog, The Republic of T., has won several awards and has been featured by various media outlets, including CNN, BBC Radio, Newsday, NPR and The Washington Post Express. His writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Alternet, The Bilierico Project, The Washington Blade, and Metro Weekly. In addition to blogging, Terrance has been a longtime activist and advocate on LGBT equality and HIV/AIDS issues. He lives in Maryland.
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Charlyne Ivory
Office Manager/Accounting Assistant
Charlyne Ivory brings to the role of office manager a background in hotels and property management. Originally, she is from the Tidewater, Va., area, where she attended Norfolk State University and received her BA in administration.
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Dave Johnson
Writer
Dave Johnson of Redwood City, Calif., is a fellow at Campaign for America’s Future, writing about American manufacturing, trade and economic/industrial policy. He is also a senior fellow with Renew California. Johnson has more than 20 years of technology industry experience, including positions as CEO and VP of marketing. His earlier career included technical positions, including video game design at Atari and Imagic. He was also a pioneer in design and development of productivity and educational applications of personal computers. More recently, he helped co-found a company developing desktop systems to validate carbon trading in the U.S.
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Eric Mills
Chief Financial Officer
Eric Mills has worked for Campaign for America’s Future since March 2005. Prior to his joining CAF, he worked for 13 years at the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, first as their senior accountant, controller and then as their chief financial officer. He received a B.S from Bowie State University in accounting, and received his CPA certification in 1989.
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Isaiah J. Poole
Director of Online Communications
Isaiah J. Poole is the editor of OurFuture.org and Campaign for America’s Future’s director of online communications. He joined CAF in 2006. Previously he had worked for 25 years in mainstream media, most recently at Congressional Quarterly, where he covered congressional leadership and tracked major bills through Congress. Most of his journalism experience has been in Washington as both a reporter and an editor on topics ranging from presidential politics to pop culture. His work has put him at the front lines of ideological battles between progressives and conservatives. Some of his motivating issues are economic justice, civil and human rights, gay and lesbian rights, and addressing poverty. Poole served as a founding member of the Washington Association of Black Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He is married and living in Washington.
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Bill Scher
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Senior Writer and Blog Managing Editor
Bill Scher is the author of “Wait! Don’t Move To Canada!: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America.” One of the original liberal bloggers, he founded LiberalOasis.com in 2002. He is the co-host of “The LiberalOasis Radio Show” podcast and “The DMZ” at Bloggingheads.tv. He has been published by the New York Times, The New Republic, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Omaha World-Herald and In These Times, and has made appearances on CNN and NPR, among other broadcast outlets. Most recently, he has been writing a regular column for The Week magazine and has begun appearing regularly on MSNBC. He has been with the Campaign for America’s Future since 2007, focusing on clean energy and health care among other issues. He is married with two children and lives in Northampton, Mass.