PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER

After graduating with a degree in Public Policy, City Planning, and Development from the University of Southern California, Jordyn has rooted her career in social impact. Through her recent work at Omaze and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, she managed strategic partnerships, marketing and communications, events, and fundraising initiatives.

FOUNDER & SENIOR ADVISOR

Katie was the first Campaigns Director at MomsRising.org and ran the North American Campaigns team at Change.org. In 2014, Katie was named one of Fast Company’s ‘Most Creative People in Business.’

VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Chrissy has a background in strategic communications and has managed public relations, marketing and branding at leading organizations including Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, The Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Office of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. She also developed corporate brand platforms at a media agency and in-house at a start-up company. She is a California native and supports her alma mater the University of California, Berkeley.

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Alexis Carter-Black has built a twenty plus year career working in the public sector - for government and non-profit organizations. She has focused her career on program planning and evaluation, grant proposal development and writing, annual and major gift fundraising, strategic planning, and Board development and has raised more than $37 million for a variety of projects. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Master of Public Administration degree, both from the University of Oklahoma.

ORGANIZING MANAGER

Jaymie is an experienced political and community organizer with a history of working for progressive candidates and organizations. While working for the South Carolina Democratic Party, she worked to flip a congressional district for the first time since the early 1990s and multiple house districts as well. Most recently her work with Color of Change helped to win elections across the Southeast. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the College of Charleston and is the proud mother of a 10 year old daughter.

SENIOR ADVISOR

Orli served as the Deputy Communications Director for the National Sierra Club for 9 years and led the communications team for the groundbreaking Beyond Coal campaign.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Molly has spent her career building and scaling national organizations working to end poverty in the U.S., most recently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at LIFT. Prior to LIFT, she worked in venture philanthropy at New Profit and started the nonprofit campusCatalyst. Molly is a proud New York City transplant with deep Idaho roots.

DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL OPERATIONS

Aliya has held multiple senior-level accounting and finance roles in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. She has worked with budgets upwards of $60 million dollars. She is a member of the African American Chamber of Commerce's Young Professional Advisory Committee and currently serves as Board Treasurer of NEW START Adult Learning Program.

GL ACCOUNTANT

Tamirra is a finance professional with a background in state and federal grant management, charitable donations and higher education. She is also a strong human rights advocate. She is a native Phoenician and proud alum of a HBCU, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

Kenya is a communications professional with experience in ballot measures, legislation, and digital campaigns. She has helped pass progressive policies in Oregon like paid family and medical leave and driver’s licenses for all. Kenya serves as a board member of Next Up and is a Trail Blazers fan.

SENIOR OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

Sofia has a background in positive youth development, earning her Bachelor of Science in Education & Social Policy from Northwestern University. Sofia has experience working with a range of youth-, family- and community-oriented nonprofit organizations, including as a Project Manager sustaining continuous quality improvement systems for city, state, and national youth-serving organizations and initiatives.

VP OF FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION, & PEOPLE

Sarah supported massive organizational growth as the first Director of Finance & Operations at If/When/How. She is proud to lead the Board of Directors of ACCESS Women’s Health Justice, where she champions abortion access and reproductive justice for all.

DIGITAL CAMPAIGNS DIRECTOR

Mary is a queer woman of color daughter of immigrants. She has led electoral, policy, and advocacy campaigns through field, digital, and community organizing. Her work managing campaigns has resulted in major legislative and electoral wins nationwide.

COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

Karen is a storyteller that loves building bridges for the sake of transformational systems change. She most recently led efforts to reach the next generation at Acumen, while fueling a fast-growing fundraising engine for organizational growth. She holds a degree in public health and is a proud Californian currently residing in NYC.

SENIOR DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

Cara is a development professional with experience spanning grant writing, annual fund and capital campaigns, and donor database management. Through her fundraising, she has helped grow and sustain programming for young people experiencing homelessness and for humanities-based early childhood education initiatives.

SENIOR CAMPAIGN MANAGER

Kate is a political and community organizer who has developed and executed electoral, issue advocacy, and worker justice campaigns in the battleground state of Ohio for the AFL-CIO and the Ohio Environmental Council. She is a proud Ohioan who is #MarionMade!

SENIOR DIRECTOR, CAMPAIGNS & DIGITAL

Karin is a campaigner and digital strategist with nearly two decades experience in the progressive and women's movements. She has worked at organizations including UltraViolet, MoveOn.org, the office of Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, and a marriage equality ballot initiative campaign.

LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR

Corinne is a government affairs professional with the heart of an organizer. Before joining PLUS, she was the inaugural Director of Advocacy and Public Policy at Girls Who Code, developing their national public policy program to close the gender gap in technology. She has driven impact for non-profits on a national scale, moving the needle on innovative policies in technology, education and women's issues. She uses her background in campaign organizing to ensure that she is uplifting unheard voices to create change.

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS
Annie is an experienced campaigner who leads PL+US work on employer policies, including our annual Employer Trends reporting. She has led winning campaigns to change policies at Wal-Mart, Starbucks, CVS and other workplaces.

ORGANIZING DIRECTOR

Bridget is an experienced labor organizer who has developed and led campaigns throughout Southern California with Service Employees International Union (SEIU). While at SEIU she helped working people in various industries from higher education to public service form their union and build political and workplace power.

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Neil is a political communications strategist with 15 years of experience in the progressive movement. Most recently serving as the Communications Director of Democracy for America, Neil was also the first Director of New Media at the U.S. Department of Commerce during the Obama administration. A graduate of George Washington University who also studied politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford’s Pembroke College, Neil also serves his community as a City Council member in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI.