Prime Movers

Learn more about the Prime Movers.


Kevin Bales

Organization:
Free the Slaves

Movement:
Modern-Day Slavery


Ben Burkett

Organization:
Mississippi
Association of Cooperatives


Movement:
Food Sovereignty


Geoffrey Canada

Organization:
Harlem Children's Zone

Movement:
Urban Education Reform


Majora Carter

Organization:
Sustainable South Bronx

Movement: Environmental Justice


Jennifer Chrisler

Organization:
Family Equality
Council


Movement:
GLBT Family Rights


Cheryl Dorsey

Organization:
Echoing Green

Movement:
Social
Entrepreneurship

Jonah Edelman

Organization:
Stand for Children

Movement:
Children's Rights

David Flink

Organization:
Project Eye-to-Eye

Movement:
Rights for Learning Disabled

Marc Freedman

Organization:
Civic Ventures

Movement:
Redefining Aging

Rosanne Haggerty

Organization:
Common Ground

Movement:
Homelessness


LeeAnn Hall

Organization:
Northwest
Federation
of Community Organizations


Movement:
Health Care Reform


Darell Hammond

Organization:
KaBOOM!

Movement:
Community-Built
Play Spaces

Mark Hanis

Organization:
Genocide Intervention Network

Movement:
Anti-genocide

Sara Horowitz

Organization:
Working Today

Movement:
Independent
Workers' Rights

Cheryl Jacques

Movement:
GLBT Rights


Van Jones


Organization: Green for All

Movement: Environmental Justice


Daisy Khan

Organization:
American Society 
for Muslim Advancement


Movement:
Muslim American and Muslim Women's Rights


Alan Khazei

Organization:
Be the Change, Inc.

Movement:
National Voluntary
Service


Maria Teresa Kumar

Organization:
Voto Latino

Movement:
Latino Civic Engagement


Dune Lankard

Organization:
The Eyak Preservation Council

Movement: Environmental Protection


Malcolm Lazin

Organization:
Equality Forum

Movement:
GLBT Rights


EunSook Lee

Organization:
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium

Movement:
Immigrant Rights


Rachel Lloyd

Organization:
Girls Education and Mentoring Services

Movement:
Anti-trafficking


Tony Massaro

Organization:
League of
Conservation Voters


Movement:
Environmental Protection


Bill McKibben

Organization:
350.org

Movement:
Climate Change


Giovanna Negretti

Organization:
¿Oíste?

Movement:
Latino Rights


Christine
Neumann-Ortiz


Organization:
Voces de la Frontera

Movement:
Immigrant Rights


Billy Parish

Organization:
Energy Action Coalition

Movement:
Environmental Youth


Eboo Patel

Organization:
Interfaith Youth Core

Movement:
Interfaith Youth
Cooperation


Michael Petit

Organization:
Every Child Matters
Education Fund


Movement:
Children's Rights


Ai-jen Poo

Organization:
National Domestic Worker Alliance

Movement:
Domestic Wokers Rights


Paul Rieckhoff

Organization:
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

Movement:
New Veterans' Rights


Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Organization:
MomsRising.org

Movement:
Women's Rights


Zainab Salbi

Organization:
Women for Women International

Movement:
Women's Rights


Alexia Salvatierra

Organization:
Clergy and
Laity United
for Economic Justice LA


Movement:
Economic Justice


Eric Schwarz

Organization:
Citizen Schools

Movement:
After-School Reform


Rinku Sen

Organization:
Applied Research Center

Movement:
Racial Justice


Anim Steel

Organization:
The Food Project

Movement:
Food Justice


Josh Viertel

Organization:
Slow Food USA

Movement:
Food Justice


Jim Wallis

Organization:
Sojourners

Movement:
Progressive
Evangelicalism