Position: Network Organizer Name: Leland Wright Location: 2 E South St, Galesburg IL URL photo: Bio: Leland is a sophomore at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Coordinating Committee Name: Will Lawrence Location: 4840 Walton Ave, Philadelphia, PA URL photo: Bio: Will is a graduate of Swarthmore College and a member of the DSN Coordinating Committee Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Coordinating Commitee Name: Marli Diestel Location: 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco URL photo: Bio: Marli is a senior at San Francisco State University. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Coordinating Committee Name: Kate Aronoff Location: 3900 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia URL photo: Bio: Kate is a graduate of Swarthmore College Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Coordinating Committee Name: Lex Barlowe Location: Yale university, New Haven, CT URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Coordinating Committee Name: Jess Grady-Benson Location: 3900 Market St. Philadelphia URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Network Organizer Name: Doug Miller Location: 30.440416, -84.291374 URL photo: 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! Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Campus Organizer Name: Gianna Chacon Location: 41.876244, -87.623993 URL photo: Bio: Gianna is a junior at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Coordinating Committee Name: Dylan Amlin Location: 41.866329, -87.625549 URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Coordinating Committee Name: Varshini Prakash Location: 42.391236, -72.527377 URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Network Organizer Name: Jason Schwartz Location: 37.720931, -122.480699 URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Coordinating Committee Name: Greta Neubauer Location: 44.009616, -73.178193 URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Campus Organizer Name: Alfredo Gonzalez Location: 45.512834, -122.683662 URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Network Organizer Name: Allyson Gross Location: 43.907428, -69.964490 URL photo: 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). Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Reinvestment Team Name: Iliana Salazar-Dodge Location: 40.808251, -73.963549 URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Escalation Team Name: Sara Blazevic Location: 39.907854, -75.350322 URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |
Position: Network Organizer Name: PD Gantert Location: 40.007482, -105.267465 URL photo: 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. Colorcoding: orange_circle |