Position: Network Organizer
Name: Leland Wright
Location: 2 E South St, Galesburg IL
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Bio: Leland is a sophomore at Knox College in Galesburg, IL.
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Position: Coordinating Committee
Name: Will Lawrence
Location: 4840 Walton Ave, Philadelphia, PA
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Bio: Will is a graduate of Swarthmore College and a member of the DSN Coordinating Committee
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Position: Coordinating Commitee
Name: Marli Diestel
Location: 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco
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Bio: Marli is a senior at San Francisco State University.
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Position: Coordinating Committee
Name: Kate Aronoff
Location: 3900 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia
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Bio: Kate is a graduate of Swarthmore College
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Position: Coordinating Committee
Name: Lex Barlowe
Location: Yale university, New Haven, CT
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Bio: Lex is a sophomore at Yale University from New York City. She is down for an intersectional climate justice movement accompanied by heaps of black licorice and lots of cats.
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Position: Coordinating Committee
Name: Jess Grady-Benson
Location: 3900 Market St. Philadelphia
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Bio: Jess Grady-Benson is a recent grad of Pitzer College, where her campaign achieved divestment victory in 2014. She is now a member of the Coordinating Committee of the DSN and coordinator of the Alumni Divestment Network. Jess loves playing music, bike-rides, and cheese.
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Position: Network Organizer
Name: Doug Miller
Location: 30.440416, -84.291374
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Bio: Doug is a Tallahassee Florida native and a graduate of New York University. When he's not building power with other Southeastern climate justice organizers or FSU students, you'll find in an art gallery, meditating, or dreaming of cities!
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Position: Campus Organizer
Name: Gianna Chacon
Location: 41.876244, -87.623993
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Bio: Gianna is a junior at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
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Position: Coordinating Committee
Name: Dylan Amlin
Location: 41.866329, -87.625549
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Bio: Dylan is a senior at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is coordinating the Regional Network-Building program of the DSN. Before organizing with the DSN, he led a statwide campaign against fracking in Illinois with the IIRON Student Network.
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Position: Coordinating Committee
Name: Varshini Prakash
Location: 42.391236, -72.527377
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Bio: Varshini Prakash is a senior at UMass Amherst studying Environmental Science and Political Science. A Massachusetts native, she has organized against fossil fuel infrastructure in her state and worked to build student power locally and nationally. Varshini is also on the Board of Directors for the Responsible Endowments Coalition.
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Position: Network Organizer
Name: Jason Schwartz
Location: 37.720931, -122.480699
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Bio: Jason Schwartz joined San Francisco State University's divestment campaign in the fall of 2013. He got involved with the Divestment Student Network coordinating on-site logistics for the 2104 Fossil Fuel Divestment Convergence and now works on the Mentorship Program in California. He is currently a senior in Environmental Sustainability & Social Justice at San Francisco State University.
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Position: Coordinating Committee
Name: Greta Neubauer
Location: 44.009616, -73.178193
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Bio: Greta is from Racine, Wisconsin and will graduate from Middlebury College in February of 2015. She is excited about the ways we can wield divestment as a solidarity tactic and engage in the transition to a new and just economy. She also enjoys drinking Lime-a-Ritas and talking about how much she loves Wisconsin.
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Position: Campus Organizer
Name: Alfredo Gonzalez
Location: 45.512834, -122.683662
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Bio: A Peru native, Alfredo attends Portland State University in Oregon. He is the divestment campaign organizer for his school. His work is inspired by climate disruption on his home city of Cusco, Peru. Gonzalez also has an interest in organizing people of color with an emphasis on the Latino population.
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Position: Network Organizer
Name: Allyson Gross
Location: 43.907428, -69.964490
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Bio: Allyson is a member of the class of 2016 at Bowdoin College. Having grown up in an oil-refinery community near Houston, Allyson now works with Bowdoin Climate Action for fossil fuel divestment. When not organizing, she spends her time watching cat videos and complaining about capitalism (sometimes simultaneously).
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Position: Reinvestment Team
Name: Iliana Salazar-Dodge
Location: 40.808251, -73.963549
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Bio: Iliana is a third year at Columbia University studying Sustainable Development with a minor in Mathematics. She is currently involved with Barnard Columbia Divest for Climate Justice. As an organizer, she's looking forward to a world where people put people, peace, and the planet over profit.
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Position: Escalation Team
Name: Sara Blazevic
Location: 39.907854, -75.350322
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Bio: Sara Blazevic is a polyglot with roots in Croatia and New York City. She spends her time reading books, looking for creeks to swim in, and building student power within the climate justice movement, as a leader in Swarthmore Mountain Justice's fossil fuel divestment campaign, and a core organizer for the first and second fossil fuel divestment convergences.
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Position: Network Organizer
Name: PD Gantert
Location: 40.007482, -105.267465
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Bio: P.D. is an undergrad at the University of Colorado, Boulder who spends most of his time obsessing over his bike and eating dumpster food. While no music expert, he judges grungy, dubbed over electronic dance beats to be the best for cramming homework and saving the world.
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