Millennial Leaders Endorse Keith Ellison for DNC Chair
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Millennial Leaders Endorse Keith Ellison for DNC Chair was posted February 2017.
- Young people have been at the forefront of every major struggle in our country to make real the promise of democracy. During the last election cycle, our generation played a pivotal role in bringing economic and racial justice to the forefront of political dialogue, and now we are marching in the streets, rallying at airports, and at town halls resisting Donald Trump’s cabinet and his agenda of hatred and greed.
- As millennials, we are the future of the Democratic Party and in order to ensure a sustainable, winning coalition, we need a chair who will unite the Party and open its doors to all the young people who are already leading our movements. We need a chair who will prioritize a 50-state plan to build grassroots organization, drive massive voter registration, and ensure that the ballot is accessible to young people and people of color. We want a chair who will fight to win a democracy for all and overcome the profound crises of our time — from catastrophic climate change to systemic racism, historic economic inequality to perpetual war.
- That’s why we endorse Representative Keith Ellison for DNC Chair. We believe he can activate the millennial base of the party by working with the movements we have powered.
- Representative Ellison has discussed how important it is to create a candidate pipeline that will actually reflect our communities. He is committed to building a Democratic Party that undeniably represents everyday American voters, not billionaire big donors. And Representative Ellison has said that any winning formula for the Democratic Party means to build a vision and an agenda that will speak to working class people of all races.
- At a time when it is more important than ever to have true fighters defending our democracy, our lives, and our communities, he will bring new energy to the Democratic Party.
Signed,
- organizations listed for identification purposes only
- Moumita Ahmed, Millennials for Revolution, District 13 House
- Erika Andiola, Political Director, Our Revolution
- Dante Barry, Executive Director, Million Hoodies
- Yong Jung Cho, #AllofUs
- Alexandra Flores-Quilty, former President, United States Student Association & #AllofUs Organizer
- Kai Newkirk, Co-Founder & Mission Director, Democracy Spring
- Kunoor Ojha, Student Organizing Director, Bernie 2016; Hillary for America
- Shailene Woodley, Actor & Activist
- Claire Sandberg, Bernie 2016 Digital Organizing Director (primary); MoveOn 42-State Member Mobilization Director (general)
- Waleed Shahid, #AllofUs
- Nelini Stamp, Working Families Party
- Linda Sarsour, Activist, National Co-Chair, Women’s March on Washington
- Neidi Dominguez, Director of Worker Center Partnerships, Deputy Director of Community Engagement, AFL-CIO
- Carmen Perez, Executive Director, Gathering for Justice; National Co-Chair, Women’s March on Washington
- Umi Selah, Co-Director, The Dream Defenders
- Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Founder, Solidaire
- Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Editor In Chief, Muslim Girl
- Richard Graves, Board Chair, Climate Hawks Vote & Founder, Solidaire
- Gregory Cendana, Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO
- Renaldo Pearson, National Coordinating Committee, Democracy Spring
- Benjamin O’Keefe, Former Senior Social and Cultural Director at MoveOn.org & co-founder AOKBOK
- Shannon Jackson, Executive Director, Our Revolution
- Ilya Sheyman, Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action
- Kendrick Sampson, Actor & Activist
- David Duhalde, Deputy Director, Democratic Socialists of America
- Kyle Machado, Organizing Director for Our Revolution
- Meredith Horowski, Global Campaign Director, Global Zero
- Ahmed Khan, former Deputy Executive Director at Draft Biden 2016
- Julia Walsh, Campaign Director, FrackAction
- Aaron Regunberg, Rhode Island State Representative, Resist Hate RI
- Lauren Windsor, Executive Director, American Family Voices
- Maria Langholz, Progressive Change Campaign Committee
- Will Guzzardi, State Representative, Illinois 39th District; Sanders Delegate to DNC
- Melissa Barber, Democratic Party Precinct Chair and Former DNC Rules Committee Member (2016)
- Yotam Marom, Wildfire Project
- Joseph Huff-Hannon, Senior Campaigner, Avaaz
- Phil Aroneanu, Co-Founder, 350.org
- Melissa Byrne, DNC Vice Chair candidate; former National GOTV Digital Director, Bernie 2016
- Kenneth Theodore, Black Lives Matter of Greater New York
- Kenneth Shelton, Community/Youth Organizer, Black Lives Matter of Greater New York
- Erica Lee, AAPI Outreach Coordinator at Bernie 2016, District 13 House
- Brianna Tong, Chicago Student Action, a branch of The People’s Lobby
- Alex van Schaick, Counsel, Communications Workers of America
- Jeremiah Lowery, Steering Committee, DC for Democracy
- Cynthia Martinez, TX National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee State Leadership (Corpus Christi)
- Elijah Bidwell, El Paso National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee Metro Committee
- Sean Perry, Florida National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee State Leadership Council
- Shayla Walsh, Labor Organizer, National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee
- Arianne Rodrigues, National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee
- Duncan Meisel, Senior Digital Campaigns Manager, 350.org and 350 Action
- Dan Sherrell, NY Renews
- Ryan Doyle, Executive Director, Change Corps
- Hector Sigala, Former Social Media Director, Bernie 2016
- Neil Sroka, Communications Director, Democracy for America
- Marta Turnbull, Co-Founder, Up North Pride
- Aaron Brown, Board Member, Oregon Walks
- Darius Gordon, Lead Organizer NYC Chapter, Citizen Action of New York
- Dan Apfel, Croatan Institute; former Executive Director, Responsible Endowments Coalition
- Desiree Kane, National Engagement Director, People for Bernie
- Aija Nemer-Aanerud, Student Action Director, People’s Action
- Dylan Amlin, Student Action Field Director, People’s Action
- Jordan Marie Daniel, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Rising Hearts Coalition
- Justin Strekal, Political Director, NORML
- Thabit Pulak, Founder, iKormi; AB Duke Scholar, Duke University
- Tyler Nickerson, The Solutions Project
- Karthik Ganapathy, former New Hampshire Communications Director, Bernie 2016
- Vivek Kembaiyan, Press Secretary, Democracy for America
- Marce Gutierrez-Graudiņs, Founder & Director, Azul
- Stephen Miles, Win Without War
- Harry Waisbren, Co-Founder, act.tv
- Joe Dinkin, Working Families Party
- Curt Ries, Deputy Mission Director, Democracy Spring
- Kevin O’Donnell, Ohio Student AssociationLink title
- Amanda Johnson, Working Families Party
- Mindy Isser, Organizer, SEIU
- Max Stahl, Director of Political Engagement, Democracy Matters
- Angelo Greco, Surrogates Manager, Hillary for America 2016
- Maxwell John Love, former President, US Student Association
- M. Kamau Chege, Co-Founder, Washington Dream Coalition; #AllOfUS
- Max Cotterill, Digital Organizing at Bernie 2016, NextGen Climate, and KnockEveryDoor
- Shilpa Joshi, Organizing Director, Renew Oregon
- Chandra V. Paetsch, Our Revolution, formerly SEIU 503
- Evan Weber, U.S. Climate Plan
- Matt Cordeiro, Northeast Student Power Network
- Anthony Torres, #AllOfUS, SustainUS
- Leewana Thomas, Northeast Coordinator, OURWalmart; former National Coordinator, USAS
- Rob Friedman, Campaigner, Natural Resources Defense Council; Board, Power Shift Network
- Julio Daniel Diaz, Hillary for America; Political Operations Coordinator, Planned Parenthood Action Fund
- Adam Greenberg, SustainUS, IfNotNow
- Ariel Richer, Rising Hearts Coalition
- Ian Schiffer, National Director, Young Progressives Demanding Action
- Emilia Gonzalez, Avalos Unidos Votamos MN
- Monica Mohapatra, the Laura Flanders Show, Equality Labs
- Dia Bui, Founder and Director, United We Slam
- Rosie O’Brien, Real Food Challenge, Democracy Spring
- Aly Johnson-Kurts, SustainUS
- Joshua A. Clennon, Black Progressives
- Molly Grover, Save Main St, Rebel & Resist
- Phillip Kim, Assembly District 8 Delegate, CA Democratic Party
- Nick Gauthier, CT Progressives
- Sam Ghazey, Digital Organizing at Bernie 2016, NextGen Climate, and KnockEveryDoor
- Zackary Reinhardt, Michigan for Revolution
- Michael Lee, Assembly District 18 Delegate, CA Democratic Party
- Porsche Middleton, Assembly District 8 Delegate, CA Democratic Party
- Becca Rast, 350.org
- Sam Adler-Bell, Write/Activist
- Benjamin Becker, Assembly District 17 Delegate, Bernie 2016 Delegate
- Andres Ramos, 2016 CA Presidential Elector, CA Democratic Party Delegate, 2016 Bernie Delegate,
- Zach Denney, Member, SJCDCC; California DSCC Delegate AD-13
- Diane Russell, Former Maine State Representative; leader of the Superdelegate movement
- Ricardo Williams, Orlando for Revolution
- Garrett Blad, Executive Coordinator, SustainUS
- Sara Blazevic, IfNowNow
- Sophie Lasoff, Ayni Institute, IfNowNow
- Nik Dodani, Actor, Comedian, and Activist; formerly MoveOn.org and Elizabeth Warren for MA
- Jonny Griffith, Chair of the Utah County Democrats
- Christopher Myers, California Assembly District 4 Delegate
- Lee Ziesche, Documentary filmmaker
- Nikhil Goyal, Random House author and public education activist
- Nate Ruby, Field Director, Senator Patrick Leahy
- Brandon Maheu, National Director of State Campaigns & NH Primary Director, Bernie 2016
- Maia Rosenberg, District 13 House
- Ricky Ly, Orange County Florida Democratic Executive Committee; National AAPI for Bernie team
- Mallory Anderton, National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee — Southern Division
- Hannah Zimmerman, youngest ever National Credentials Committee Member, 2016 DNC
- Alex Auriema, Showing Up For Racial Justice, Cambridge, MA
- Christine Wood, Organizer, Climate Reality Project; Delegate for Bernie 2016
- Harrison Weber, Organizer, California Nurses Association / National Nurses United
- Derek Lane, VP of Membership, ME Young Dems; ME Democratic Party Executive Committee Member
- Ernesto Medina, Board Member, People’s Progressive Caucus of Miami Dade
- Linh Nguyen, National Political & Constituency Outreach, Bernie 2016
- Oliver Larkin, Digital Strategist at Revolution Messaging, Regional Field Director Bernie 2016
- Benjamin Bradlow, Somerville, MA Ward 3 Democratic Party Committee
- Nicola Auriema, Member, Democratic Socialists of America
- Hannah Fertig, former Regional Digital Organizing Director Bernie 2016, NextGen Climate, KnockEveryDoor
- Xavier Perez, Membership Director, Manhattan Young Democrats
- Emma Zschunke, Former Regional Field Director, Bernie 2016 and Coordinated Campaign MN DFL
- Joel Solow, labor organizer, member Democratic Socialists of America
- Leo Gertner, Law Fellow, SEIU, former staffer SEIU 615; member Democratic Socialists of America
- Simon Davis-Cohen, Writer/Activist
- Mansur Gidfar, former Communications Director, Represent.Us; Director, Down-Ballot Revolution
- Julia Barnes, former National Field Director and New Hampshire State Director, Bernie 2016
- Andrea Perez, Board Member, People’s Progressive Caucus of Miami Dade, FL
- Shane McKibben, former National Out-of-State Lead Organizer, Bernie 2016
- Stan Williams, Labor Organizer/Activist, People for Bernie
- Eric R. Sannerud, Farmer at Mighty Axe Hops
- Filiberto Nolasco Gomez, Researcher at SEIU
- Ashley Fairbanks, Anishinaabe Artist & Organizer
- Emily Mayer, IfNotNow
- Shauna Valdez, Secretary of DFL Latino Caucus, MN-DFL State Central Committee, 2016 Bernie Delegate
- Brandon Schorsch, Platform Committee Member, MN-DFL
- Maria Carrillo, Member of Orange County DEC; 2016 Sanders Delegate
- Andrew Shelton, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma; Coordinating Committee, Young Democratic Socialists; City of Boston Ward 15 Democratic Committee
- Malcolm Bates, Democratic Socialists of America
- Jen Ramos, Deputy Communications Director, TX Young Dems; National Bernie DNC Delegate
- Kim McMurray, National Training Director at Bernie 2016
- Ryan Madden, Long Island Progressive Coalition, Showing Up For Racial Justice Long Island
- Rose Espinola, Former Virginia State Field Director for Bernie 2016
- Bianca Cunningham, Organizer, CWA District 1; Chair of Labor Branch, Democratic Socialists of America
- Avram Reisman, Just Foreign Policy
- Joshua Youngerman, Grassroots Action NY
- Howard Watts III, Nevada Activist & Organizer
- Swathi Shanmugasundaram, District 12 Delegate, MI Democratic Party
- Collin Rees, SustainUS
- Matt Haney, Commissioner, San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education
- Chris Bangert-Drowns, United States Student Association, Student Labor Action Project
- Amirah Sequeira, Legislative Advocate, National Nurses United
- Sean Estelle, Power Shift Network
- Zack Malitz, Deputy Digital Organizing Director, Bernie 2016; former Campus Program Director, NextGen Climate
- Kazu Haga, East Point Peace Academy
- Jillian Riley, Legislative Intern, State Senator, Terry Van DuynLink title
- Guido Girgenti, 350 Action
- Kamaal Thomas, Fellow, DNC Hope Institute
- Christopher Cooke, Young Democrats of Utah; Regional Field Organizer, Human Rights Campaign
- Elise Nabors, Social Media Specialist, National Nurses United
- Caleb-Michael Files, Millennials for Revolution; Former Digital Director North Carolina, NextGen Climate
- Jess Dervin-Ackerman, Assembly District Delegate, CA Democratic Party
- Mariel Brown-Fallon, Field Organizer and Scheduling & Advance, Bernie 2016
- Todd Zimmer, former National Political Field Organizer, 350 Action
- Shaun Carland, Software Engineer, Yesware
- Mickey San Miguel, Colorado Rising; Data Engineer, ActivateNow
- James Cersonsky, Director, Pennsylvania Student Power Network
- Benjamin Curtis, Assistant Camp Director, YouthCARE
- Casey Pease, 1st Congressional District Director, Young Democrats of MA; former Organizer Bernie 2016
- K.C. Alvey, Board Member, Long Island Progressive Coalition
- Bradley Heinz, Engineer, Welkin Health
- M. Zachary Mezera, Executive Director, Providence Student Union
- Anna Dardick, former Digital Outreach Manager, Movement 2016
- Lindsey Smith, Law Students RISE: Resisting Injustice and Standing for Equality
- Cara Bates, former Organizer at Bernie 2016
- Seth Leibson, UAW 2865 and Democratic Socialists of America
- Adam Hasz, Fossil Free MIT
- Rose Robb, Stop Our Silence, MIT
- Angelica Rivera, Regional Board Member, Citizen Action of Western New York
- Samantha Nephew, Organizer, Citizen Action of Western New York
- Aaron Greenberg, Alder for Ward 8, City of New Haven
- Elizabeth Lee, College Students for Bernie, Young Progressives Demanding Action
- Emily Robinson, Actor, Writer, Director, and Activist
- Nick E. Smith, J.D., Deputy Chief of Staff, New York City Council
- Regina Zweng, Palm Beach County Outreach Coordinator, Progressive Democrats of America
- Alyssa Lee, Campus Organizer, Better Future Project
- Stevens Orozco, Raw Politics
- Nick Martin, Organizer, Lancaster Against Pipelines
- Nida Allam, Third Vice Chair, North Carolina Democratic Party
- Ryan Camero, California Student Sustainability Coalition
- Lisa Hu, Fellow, DNC Hope Institute; Fellow, Young People For
- Nick Espinosa, Our Revolution — Twin Cities
- Jackson Hyland-Lipski, Head of Web Development, Women’s March
- John Qua, U.S. Field Organizer, Global Zero
- Kurt Walters, Demand Progress
- Patrick Moran, Fossil Free MIT
- Colby Reed, Co-Founding Member of High Schoolers for Bernie; member, Young Democratic Socialists
- Carli Stevenson, Demand Progress; former IN Political Director, NH Deputy Communications Director, Bernie 2016
- Natalia Abrams, Student Debt Crisis
- Eliza Klein, Divest Williams
- Raven Geiger, Mount Holyoke Climate Justice Coalition/Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign for MHC
- Senowa Mize-Fox, Member Organizer United Electrical Workers (UE)
- Steven L. Webb II, Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
- Lucy Sedgwick, Progressive Change Campaign Committee
- Max Socol, National Organizer, Bend the Arc Jewish Action
- Austen Levihn-Coon, Chief Innovation Officer, Fission Strategy
- Margaret Klein Salamon, The Climate Mobilization
- Ashik Siddique, The Climate Mobilization
- Spencer Carnes, Organizer, Bernie 2016; Campus Organizing Director, Hillary for Colorado
- Evan LeBrun, State Field Director, Bernie 2016; Maine Democratic Party
- Kolby Duhon, Executive Vice President, TX Young Dems; Board Member, NARAL Pro Choice TX
- Amber Ruther, Boston College
- Fawaz Shuja Anwar, President of College Democrats at The University of Texas at Dallas
- Priyanka Chatterjee, Fossil Free MIT
- Faiza Ali, Muslim Democratic Club of New York
- Lauren Scheiderer, Bernie 2016, NextGen Climate, Knock Every Door
- Charlie Jiang, #AllofUs, 350 DC
- Yannai Kashtan, Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
- Julia Berkman-Hill, Bowdoin Climate Action, IfNotNow
- Pele IrgangLaden, IfNotNow
- Christina Stenstrom, Sierra Club
- Claire Wyatt, Director, Virginia Student Power Network
- Kevin Lata, Organizer Bernie 2016; Regional Field Director, NH Democratic Party
- Fredy Ramirez, Jr., Program Advisor, National Teen Leadership; Fellow, Young People For Fellow
- Michael Jorell Reyes, Membership Director, CHISPAS UF
- Fera Dayani, Assembly District 7 Delegate, CA Democratic Party
- J.D. Garcia, Assembly District 7 Delegate, CA Democratic Party
- Javier Ontiveros, TX National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee State Leadership Council (El Paso)
- Jennie Kim, New Sector Alliance (Twin Cities)
- Maddy Salzman, 350 DC
- Armani Madison, Fellow — DNC Hope Institute, Venture for America, Young People For
- Tahil Sharma, UN Youth Rep, Parliament of the World’s Religions; Religious Director, USC
- Sarah Shoemaker, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Malaysia
- Luísa Abbott Galvao, DC Ready for Warren, Brazilian Expats for Democracy
- Matthew Perry, Showing Up For Racial Justice, Rhode Island
- Grayson Lookner, Former Bernie 2016 & Maine Democratic Party Staff
- Michael Manansala, Co-Chair, Out in Public at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
- Rio Tazewell, People For the American Way
- Aisha Naseem, Campaign Manager, Represent.Us; former Deputy Digital Director, Bernie 2016
- Milicent Dranoff, Development Associate, Bend the Arc Jewish Action
- Kayla Glick, Field and Communications Associate, Bend the Arc Jewish Action
- Mike Curran, Maine People’s Alliance, Patrick’s Cabaret
- Amanda Weaver, Executive Director, Reclaim Chicago
- Tyler Kissinger, Organizer, American Federation of Teachers
- Alex Morgan, Executive Director, Progressive Turnout Project
- Michelle Reyf, Bend the Arc Jewish Action
- Matthew Miles Goodrich, former Organizer 350 Action
- Sean Omar Rivera, VP, Progressive Democrats at UTSA; Bexar County Democratic Party Precinct Chair 3058
- Jon Mermelstein, Binghamton Progressives
- Croix Clayton, Our Revolution - Minnesota
- Patty O’Keefe, State Level Policy Coordinator, MN350
- Joshua Nodiff, Co-Founder, Committee of Students Against Injustice; United Student/Labor Action Coalition
- Emily Kirkland, Director of Organizing, 350 Mass
- Joshua E. Cardenas, former San Francisco Youth Commissioner
- Emily Southard, Campaign Director, ClimateTruth.org
- Matthew Carter, MoveOn United Against Hate 2016, Indivisible NC
- Candice Fortin, Organizer, Democracy Spring; former Community Engagement Lead #VOTEPROCHOICE
- Adina Alpert, Bend the Arc Jewish Action
- Abaki Beck, Founder, POC Online Classroom
- Anjuli Kronheim Katz, Southern California Regional Organizer, Bend the Arc
- Jonathan Abboud, Vice President, Santa Barbara Community College Board of Trustees
- Mario Ferone, Tim Canova for Congress, Dean for NY 2016, Bernie 2016
- Christian Bowe, Democratic Socialists of America
- Margaret McLaughlin, Democratic Socialists of America
- Spencer Brandt, UCSM Campus Democrats Isla Vista Community Services District
- Wiyaka Eagleman, Sacred Stone Camp
- Belinda Rodriguez, Board, Power Shift Network
- Hibba Meraay, Organizer and Advocate
- Andrew Smith, Carnegie Mellon Physics Department
- Ben LaZebnik, former Lead Activist, Columbia University College Dems
- Sara Shor, US Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground Campaign Manager, 350.org and 350 Action
- Francisco Proskauer, MIT
- Louis Di Paolo, Councilman, Dumont, New Jersey
- Tania Maduro, National Coordinating Committee, Democracy Spring
- Paul Quinonez Figueroa, Advocacy Director, Washington Dream Coalition
- Zach Zeliff, Zephyr Teachout 2016; Co-Manager, Eric Kingson for Congress
- Adam Eichen, Democracy Fellow, Small Planet Institute; Board Member, Democracy Matters
- Carrie Sterns, Bend the Arc Jewish Action
- Jenson Cook, Former OOS Lead Organizer, Bernie 2016; Maine Democratic Party
- Harman Droge, Campus Organizer, Bernie 2016; Hillary for America
- Jessica Early, Rights and Democracy Vermont
- Kachina Mooney, Organizer and Strategist, WV Progressive Movement
- Caroline Mak, Core Organizer, MIT Democrats; Our Revolution - Cambridge
- James Davis, MA State Director, Democracy for America
- Francisco Díez Buzo, Brooklyn Organizing Committee Member, Democratic Socialists of America
- Nicole Leigh Harris, The Climate Mobilization
- Christopher Mendoza, Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Macalester College Student Government
- Daniel Doubet, Organizer, Erie, PA
- Abbie Plouff, Humphrey School for Public Affairs; Environmental Organizer, Northeast Minnesota
- Ruby Levine, Cooperative Organizer, Minnesota
- Tristan Glowa, Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition, Alaska
- Mike Barney, former Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Bernie 2016
- Jerald Lentini, It Starts Today
- Erik Hatlestad, New London, MN City Council
- Huey Rey Fischer, former member of Texas Democratic Party’s Executive Committee
- Zack Avre — Urban Planner, Truman Scholar, Brooklyn, NY
- Carter Case, Conservation Chair, Washington Native Plant Society
- Rachel Goldstein, IfNotNow, 350 DC
- Sam Miller McDonald, Managing Editor at ActivistLab.org
- Kevin Chavis, SEIU Local 26, Our Revolution - Minnesota
- Christian O’Rourke, #AllOfUs, Colorado
- Peter James Callahan, Progressive Journalist & Communications Consultant
- Lindsay Meiman, 350.org
- Nick Guthman, Former President of American University College Democrats
- Matt Maiorana, Oil Change International & ActivistLab.org
- Lauren Taylor, Member, DC Democratic Socialists of America
- Joanna Zhang, Creative Lead, Rhode Island Public Health Institute
- Natalie Hoidal, former Fulbright Scholar; Garden Coordinator, Red Cross Asylum Center
- Matthew Berg, Graduate Student at Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of MN — Master’s of Public Policy[1]