Our team
Six staff. Hundreds of captains.
A small paid staff keeps the lights on and the reports honest. The real engine is volunteers: a steering committee that picks the fights, and captains who walk every first-timer through their first shift.
The staff
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Amara Osei
Organizing Director
One of the twelve in the library basement in 2021. Before that she spent six years organizing tenants on the East Side. She runs the action ladder and every hearing-night turnout.
Focus: Ready by 2030
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Danny Reyes
Policy & Research Lead
A former county budget analyst who reads every line so you do not have to. He writes our reports and answers the hard cost questions at the door.
Focus: Research desk
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June Whitfield
Volunteer Coordinator
Pairs every first-timer with a captain and answers most of the inbox. If you write to us, June is probably who writes back.
Focus: Volunteers & captains
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Tomas Lindqvist
Field Organizer, Route 12
Rides the 12 with a clipboard most weekends. He built the rider-to-rider petition model and trains the collectors who run it.
Focus: Fair Fares, Clean Air
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Priya Raman
Canvass Director
A former school librarian who now runs the Measure L canvass: 74 precincts, 500 shifts, and a fact sheet she rewrites until a ninth grader can read it.
Focus: Solar on Schools
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Keisha Barnett
Communications Lead
Writes the plain-language explainer, the news, and the text alerts that get 400 members to hearings on time.
Focus: Explainer & news
Everyone on this demo site is fictional, so we show initials rather than photos. A real team page would use the staff's own portraits.
Volunteer steering committee
Partners pick the fights
Each partner group holds one seat, and seats rotate every year. The committee votes on every new campaign using our three tests, and reviews the January budget before it's published.
- Ruth Okafor Chair · Calder Interfaith Climate Circle
- Luis Fernández Calder Transit Workers Guild
- Mei Tanaka Calder State Students for Climate
- Harold Gaines East Side Tenants Union
- Dr. Nadia Haddad Calder Clinicians for Clean Air
Volunteer captains
The people who make "nobody knocks alone" true
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Step 1
Take a few shifts
Most captains start as first-timers paired with a captain of their own.
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Step 2
Do the 90-minute training
How to brief a new volunteer, answer the cost question, and keep a shift fun.
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Step 3
Lead one pair a month
That's the whole ask. Some captains do more, and nobody is counting.
Your move
Every name on this page started with one action.
Yours can take five minutes. Three questions and the quiz will find it.