National Leading from the Inside Out Alums

2015

• Ana María Archila Gulay, Co-Executive Director, Center For Popular Democracy
• Deborah Axt, Co-Executive Director, Make The Road New York
• Fred Azcarate, Executive Director, Usaction
• Sujatha Baliga, Vice President And Director, Restorative Justice Project,Impact Justice
• Rini Banerjee, Executive Director, Foundation For A Just Society
• Javier Benavidez, Executive Director, Southwest Organizing Project
• Ellen Buchman, Executive Vice President, Field And Communications,Leadership Conference On Civil And Human Rights
• Nikki Fortunato Bas, Executive Director, Partnership For Working Families
• Jessie Graham, Executive Director, Maine People’s Alliance
• Sujatha Jesudason, Director, CoreAlign
• Cristina Jiménez, Co-Founder & Managing Director, United We Dream Network
• Kierra Johnson, Executive Director, Unite For Reproductive And Gender Equity (Urge)
• Dawn Laguens, Executive Vice President/Chief Experience Officer,Planned Parenthood Federation Of America
• Esther López, Executive Vice President, United Food And Commercial Workers International Union (Ufcw)
• Aisha Moodie-Mills, President And Chief Executive Officer, Victory Fund And Institute
• Collin O’mara, President & Chief Executive Officer, National Wildlife Federation
• Shelley Poticha, Director Of Urban Solutions, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Kenneth Rigmaiden, General President, International Union Of Painters And Allied Trades
• Eric Rodriguez, Vice President, National Council Of La Raza
• David Segal, President & Chief Executive Officer, Demand Progress
• Ian Simmons, President, Foundation For Civic Leadership
• Michael Smith, Special Assistant To The President, My Brother’s Keeper, The White House: Office Of Cabinet Affairs And My Brother’s Keeper
• Taren Stinebricker-Kauffman, Executive Director, Sumofus.Org
• Michelle Tremillo, Deputy Director, Texas Organizing Project
• Vien Truong, National Director, Green For All

2014

• Amanda Ballantyne, National Director, The Main Street Alliance
• Jeremy Bird, Founding Partner, 270 Strategies
• May Boeve, Executive Director, 350.org
• David Donnelly, Executive Director, Every Voice Public Campaign Action Fund
• Sara El-Amine, Executive Director, Organizing for Action
• Ginny Goldman, Executive Director, Texas Organizing Project
• Arshad Hasan, Executive Director, ProgressNow
• Taryn Higashi, Executive Director, Unbound Philanthropy
• Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
• Norwood Jewell, Vice President, International Union, UAW
• Annie Leonard, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
• Vivek Malhotra, Director, Civil and Human Rights, Ford Foundation
• Rev. Terrence L. Melvin, President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). Secretary-Treasurer, NY State AFL-CIO
• Christyne Neff, International Vice President and Executive Assistant to the International President, UFCW International
• Miles Rapoport, President, Common Cause
• Rocio Saenz, Executive Vice President, SEIU
• Ilya Sheyman, Executive Director, MoveOn.org
• Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute
• Rich Stoltz, Executive Director, OneAmerica
• Nadia Tonova, Director, National Network for Arab American Communities, ACCESS
• Javier Valdes, Co-Executive Director, Make The Road New York
• Gloria Walton, President & CEO, AGENDA / SCOPE
• Miriam Yeung, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
• Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

2013

• Lindsey Allen, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
• Sulma Arias, Executive Director, Sunflower Community Action
• Lawrence L. Benito, Chief Executive Officer, Illinois Coalition of Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR)
• Stacy A. Bohlen, Executive Director, National Indian Health Board
• Juan Cartagena, President & General Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
• Andrew Friedman, Executive Director, The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)
• Ben Goldfarb, Executive Director, Wellstone Action
• Steven W. Hawkins, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
• Rachel Laforest, Executive Director, Right to the City Alliance
• Valarie Long, Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• Heather C. McGhee, Vice President for Policy and Outreach, Demos
• Andrea Cristina Mercado, Campaign Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
• Amy Morris, Program Officer for Strong Local Economies, Surdna Foundation
• Navin Nayak, Senior Vice President, Campaigns, League of Conservation Voters (LCV) 
• Deepak Pateriya, Chief of Staff, Center for Community Change
• Will Pittz, Executive Director, Washington Community Action Network
• Justine Sarver, Executive Director, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
• Eveline Shen, Executive Director, Forward Together
• Shaunna Thomas, Co-Executive Director, UltraViolet
• Cristina Tzintzún, Executive Director, Workers Defense Project
• Naomi A. Walker, Assistant to the President, AFSCME
• Gordon Whitman, Deputy Director, PICO National Network
• Dennis Williams, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW
• Luna Yasui, Program Officer, Ford Foundation

2012

• Andrew Gillum, Director, Youth Leadership Programs, People for the American Way
• Cindy Estrada, Vice President, International Union, UAW
• Cindy Wiesner, National Coordinator, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
• Cristóbal Alex, Program Officer, Electoral Reform and Democratic Participation, Ford Foundation
• Denise Collazo, Director of Development and Southeast Expansion, PICO Network
• Ejim Dike, Executive Director, US Human Rights Network
• Eva Millona, Executive Director, Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition
• Farhana Khera, President & Executive Director, Muslim Advocates
• Greg Speed, Executive Director, America Votes
• Hector Sanchez, Executive Director, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
• Julien Ross, Executive Director, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
• Kelley Weigel, Executive Director, Western States Center
• Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
• Margie Alt, Executive Director, Environment America
• Mary  Anne Hitt, Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club
• Masen Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law Center
• Mellor Willie,  former Executive Director, National American Indian Housing Council
• Michael Green, Executive Director, Center for Environmental Health
• Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice
• Pamela Shifman, Director, Initiatives for Girls and Women, NoVo Foundation
• Rashad Robinson, Executive Director, Color of Change
• Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, MALDEF
• Tuyet Le, Executive Director, Asian American Institute
• Veda Shook, International President, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

2011

• Carroll Muffett, President & CEO, Center for International Environmental Law
• Dan McGrath, Executive Director, TakeAction Minnesota
• Dana Kaplan, Executive Director, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
• Denise Cardinal, Executive Director, ProgressNow and ProgressNow Education
• Gustavo Torres, Executive Director, Casa De Maryland
• Ian Inaba, Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director, Citizen Engagement Lab
• Jacqueline Pata, Executive Director, National Congress of American Indians
• Janet Murguía, President & CEO, National Council of La Raza
• John Kim, Co-Director, Advancement Project
• Josh Viertel, former President, Slow Food USA
• Katherine Peck, Senior Vice President of Programs, Gill Foundation
• Kimberly Freeman Brown, Executive Director, American Rights at Work
• LeeAnn Hall, Executive Director, Alliance for a Just Society
• Leroy Johnson, Co-Founder, Executive Director, Southern Echo, Inc.
• Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU
• Margaret Huang, Executive Director, Rights Working Group
• Matthew Butler, CEO & President, Media Matters for America
• Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green for All
• Ron Collins, Chief of Staff, Communications Workers of America
• Tammy Bang Luu, Associate Director, The Labor/Community Strategy Center
• Tomás Garduño, Co-Director, Southwest Organizing Project
• Vince Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
• Vivien Labaton, former Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives, The Atlantic Philanthropies
• Wendy Fields-Jacobs, Executive Administrative Assistant to President King, International Union, UAW

2010

• Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
• Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
• Al Davidoff, Chief of Staff, American Federation of Teachers
• Ana Yanez Correa, Executive Director, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
• Anita Earls, Executive Director, Southern Coalition for Social Justice
• Arturo Vargas, Executive Director, NALEO Educational Fund
• Becky Tarbotton, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network
• Benjamin Jealous, Executive Director, NAACP
• Dan Lashoff, Climate Center Director, NRDC
• Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Erich Pica, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth
• Ilyse Hogue, former Director of Political Advocacy and Communications, MoveOn.org
• Jonathan Liss, Executive Director, Virginia New Majority
• Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director, Advancement Project
• Kirk Noden, Executive Director, Mahoning Valley Organizing Project
• Linda Wood, Senior Director, Leadership & Grantmaking, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
• Patti Devlin, Federation Liaison to the General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America
• Phil Radford, Executive Director, Greenpeace
• Pramila Jayapal, Founder & Executive Director, One America With Justice For All
• Raquiba LaBrie, Program Director, Open Society Foundation
• Rinku Sen, Executive Director, The Applied Research Center
• Tracy Sturdivant, Executive Director, State Voices
• Vanita Gupta, Deputy Legal Director, Director of Center for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union

2009

• Ann Beeson, Senior Fellow, Art, Culture & Social Change Initiative
• Arif Mamdani, Executive Director, Progressive Technology Project
• Ben Wikler, Campaign Director, Avaaz.org
• Biko Baker, Executive Director, League of Young Voters
• Bruce Nilles, Deputy Conservation Director, Sierra Club
• Cindy Kang, Executive Director, Green Corps
• Darlene Nipper, Deputy Executive Director, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• Doran Schrantz, Director, ISAIAH
• Ellen Friedman, Executive Director, Compton Foundation, Inc.
• Josh Hoyt, Director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Karen Narasaki, President, Asian American Justice Center
• Lance Pierce , Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, Ceres
• Leslie Moody, Executive Director, The Partnership for Working Families
• Maria del Rosario Rodriguez, Founding Director, Florida Immigrant Coalition
• Mary Lassen, Managing Director, Center for Community Change
• Mary Kay Henry, President, Service Employees International Union
• Natalie Foster, Executive Director, Rebuilding the Dream
• Nita Chaudhary, National Campaigns & Organizing Director, MoveOn.org
• Nsombi Lambright, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi
• Roger Vann, Chief Operation Officer, NAACP
• Ryan Friedrichs, former Executive Director, State Voices
• Scott Reed, Executive Director, PICO National Network
• Sonia M. Perez, Senior Vice President, Affiliate Member Services, National Council of La Raza
• Thomasina Williams, former Program Officer, Ford Foundation

2008

• Ana Garcia Ashley, Executive Director, Gamaliel Foundation
• Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Betsy Taylor, Principal, Breatkthrough Strategies and Solutions
• Brian Kettenring, Interim Director, Leadership Center for the Common Good
• Cecilia Muñoz, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
• Dan Cantor, Executive Director, Working Families Party
• Derrick Johnson, State President, Mississippi NAACP
• Elissa McBride, Director of Education and Leadership Training, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, (AFSCME)
• George Goehl, Executive Director, National Training and Information Center (NTIC)
• Gideon Rosenblatt, former Executive Director, Groundwire
• Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Jeff Blodgett, Executive Director, Wellstone Action
• Katherine McFate, Executive Director, OMB Watch
• Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Co-Founder and Executive Director, MomsRising
• Leticia Alcantar, former Executive Director, Akonadi Foundation
• Linda Meric, Executive Director, 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women
• Lisa Kung, former Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights
• Monica Russo, President, Florida Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director, National Day Labor Organizing Network
• Phill Wilson, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Black AIDS Institute
• Saket Soni, Director, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
• Sara Mersha, Director of Grantmaking & Advocacy, Grassroots International
• Sarah Hodgdon, Director of Conservation, Sierra Club
• Sharon J. Lettman- Hicks, Executive Director & CEO, National Black Justice Coalition

2007

• Bill Lipton, Founder & Deputy Director, Working Families Party
• Bill Vandenberg, Director, Democracy and Power Fund, Open Society Foundations
• Billy Parish, Co-Founder and President, Solar Mosaic
• Billy Wimsatt, Senior Fellow, Movement Strategy Center
• Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Center for Community Change
• Genaro Lopez Rendon, Executive Director, Southwest Workers Union
• Gibran Rivera, Senior Associate, Interaction Institute for Social Change
• Jane Sung E. Bai, Director of National Programs, Slow Food USA
• Jorge Mursuli, President & CEO, Democracia
• Justin Ruben, Executive Director, MoveOn.org
• Katharine Redford, Co-Founder and US Office Director, EarthRights International
• Kavita Ramdas, Senior Advisor, Global Fund for Women
• Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director, Lambda Legal
• Kevin Curtis, Program Director, The Alliance for Climate Protection
• Majora Carter, Founder & Principal, Majora Carter Group, LLC
• Marielena Hincapie, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center
• Mary Beth Maxwell, Special Advisor to Secretary Of Labor, US Department of Labor
• Michelle Coffey, Director, Lambent Foundation
• Peggy Clark, Managing Director, Aspen Global Health &  Development, The Aspen Institute
• Rene Redwood, CEO, Redwood Enterprise
• Rhea Suh, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Budget and Management, US Department of the Interior
• Sandra Mikush, Deputy Director, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
• Sara Gould, Atlantic Senior Fellow, The Foundation Center
• Steve Williams, Executive Director, POWER

2006

• Adrienne Maree Brown, former Executive Director, The Ruckus Society
• Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
• Barry Gold, Marine Conservation Program Director, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Bob Fulkerson, State Director, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
• Chellie Pingree, Congressperson from Maine
• Crystal Plati, Executive Director, 21st Century Democrats
• Debra Harry, Executive Director, Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
• Drummond Pike, Founder and Former CEO, The Tides Foundation
• Gillian Caldwell, former Executive Director, WITNESS and 1Sky
• Gloria Totten, Executive Director, The Progressive Majority
• Greg Haegele, former Deputy Conservation Director, Sierra Club (deceased 2010)
• Hal Hamilton, Co-Director, Sustainable Food Lab
• Iara Peng, former Executive Director, Young People for the American Way
• Judy Rebick, former Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University
• Justin Maxson, President, Mountain Association for Community Economic Development
• Kweli Kitwana, Vice President, Progressive Majority
• May Louie, Director of Leadership and Capacity Building, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
• Melissa Dann, former Executive Director, Wallace Global Fund
• Pamela Chiang, Director of Organizational Leadership, Center For Community Change
• Peter Murray, President, Center for Progressive Leadership
• Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, National Office of Jobs With Justice
• Sean Cahill, Managing Director, Public Policy, Research and Community Health, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (New York, NY)

2005

• Ben Brandzel, Director of International Programs/Director of Incubation & Strategic Campaigns, Citizen Engagement Labs
• Brenda Hyde, Assistant Director, Southern Echo
• Bryony Schwann, Executive Director, Biomimicry Institute
• Cathy Wilkinson, Vice President of the Board, Boreal Songbird Initiative
• David Tucker, Executive Director, Pachamama Alliance
• Denise Joines, Program Officer, Wilburforce Foundation
• Gihan Perera, Executive Director, Miami Workers Center
• Joel Gurin, Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
• Lisa Abbott, Director of Organizing and Leadership Development, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
• Maggie Fox, President & CEO, Alliance for Climate Protection
• Marty Teitel, Executive Director, Cedar Tree Foundation
• Michael Gelobter, Founder & Chairman, Climate Cooler
• Michael Guerrero, Alliance Director, Grassroots Global Justice
• Nicole Rycroft, Executive Director and Founder, Canopy Planet
• Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green for All
• Richard Burns, Chief Operating Officer, Arcus Foundation
• ShaKing Alston, Executive Director, The New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
• Sheila Davis, Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

2004

• Alan Van Capelle, Deputy Comptroller for Public Affairs, Office of the Comptroller City of New York
• Andrea Durbin, Executive Director, Oregon Environmental Council
• angel Kyodo williams, Founder, Center for Transformative Change
• Ann Leonard, Director, The Story of Stuff Project
• Burt Lauderdale, Executive Director, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
• David Rosenn, Chief Operating Officer, New Israel Fund
• Eli Pariser, Board President, MoveOn.org
• Gary Cohen, Executive Director, Environmental Health Fund
• Idelisse Malave, former Executive Director, Tides Foundation
• Julian Griggs, Principal, Dovetail Consulting
• Lhadon Tethong, Director, Tibet Action Institute
• Michelle Allen, Founder & Executive Director, Fundraising 911
• Norman Dean, former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth
• Roxana Tynan, Deputy Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
• Sabrina Smith, Strategic Communications, SCOPE
• Scott Douglas, Executive Director, Greater Birmingham Ministries
• Susan Shaer, Executive Director, Women’s Action for New Directions
• Todd Paglia, Executive Director, ForestEthics
• Van Jones, Founder and Former Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and
  Green for All
• Vivian Chang, former Director of State and Local Initiatives, Green for All
• Wilma Montañez, Program Officer for Reproductive Rights, The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

2003

• Alta Starr, Program Officer, The Ford Foundation
• Andre Carothers, former Executive Director, Rockwood Leadership Institute
• Aqeela Sherrills, CEO, Center for Transformative Change
• Beth Solomon, Founder & Publisher, The Georgetown Dish
• Chris Hatch, former Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network
• Dallas Gudgell, Assiniboine Tribe of Montana
• Dyan Oldenburg, Executive Director, Training Resources for the Environmental Community
• Jeff Debonis, Senior Associate, Training Resources for the Environmental Community
• Jennifer Cobb, Vice President of Marketing and Development, World Affairs Council of Northern California
• Jodie Evans, Co-Founder and Executive Director, CodePink
• Jody Holmes, Science Director, Rainforest Solutions Project
• John Sellers, Writer & Producer, AGIT-POP Communications
• Karen Mahon, Director of Client Partnerships, Public Outreach
• Merran Smith, Director, Tides Canada Energy Initiative, Tides Canada
• Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club
• Ng’ethe Maina, Founder and Executive Director, Social Justice Leadership
• Niaz Dorry, Coordinating Director, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
• Njoki Njehu, former Executive Director, 50 Years Is Enough Network
• Simon Greer, President & CEO, Jewish Fund for Justice
• Tzeporah Berman, International Climate and Energy Co-Director, Greenpeace