Prime Movers

Learn more about the Prime Movers.


Pablo Alvarado

Organization:
National Day Laborer Organizing Network

Movement:
Immigration and Labor Rights

Dave Anderson

Organization:
Lydia Home Association/Safe Families for Children

Movement:
Family Health, Safety and Rights

Kevin Bales

Organization:
Free the Slaves

Movement:
Modern-Day Slavery

Jarrett Barrios

Movement:
LGBT Rights


Ben Burkett

Organization:
Mississippi
Association of Cooperatives


Movement:
Food Sovereignty


Geoffrey Canada

Organization:
Harlem Children's Zone

Movement:
Urban Education Reform


Majora Carter

Organization:
Majora Carter Group

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

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

Organization:
Green For All

Movement:
Green Economy

Maya Enista Smith

Organization:
Mobilize.org

Movement:
Millennial Civic Engagement

David Flink

Organization:
Project Eye-to-Eye

Movement:
Rights for Learning Disabled

Marc Freedman

Organization:
Civic Ventures

Movement:
Redefining Aging

George Goehl

Organization:
National People’s Action

Movement:
Financial Reform

Rosanne Haggerty

Organization:
Community Solutions

Movement:
Homelessness


LeeAnn Hall

Organization
Alliance for a Just Society

Movement:
Health Care Reform


Darell Hammond

Organization:
KaBOOM!

Movement:
Community-Built
Play Spaces

Mark Hanis

Organization:
United to End Genocide

Movement:
Anti-genocide

Sara Horowitz

Organization:
Working Today

Movement:
Independent
Workers' Rights

Cheryl Jacques

Movement:
GLBT Rights

Saru Jayaraman

Organization:
Restaurant Opportunities Center United

Movement:
Labor Rights


Van Jones


Organization
Rebuild the Dream

Movement
:
Social 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

Movement:
Immigrant Rights


Rachel Lloyd

Organization:
Girls Education and Mentoring Services

Movement:
Anti-trafficking


Tony Massaro

Organization:
4Front Strategies, LLC

Movement:
Global Warming


Bill McKibben

Organization:
350.org

Movement:
Climate Change


Giovanna Negretti

Movement:
Latino Rights


Christine
Neumann-Ortiz


Organization:
Voces de la Frontera

Movement:
Immigrant Rights


Rebecca Onie

Organization:
Health Leads

Movement:
Healthcare Reform

Billy Parish

Organization:
Solar Mosaic 

Movement:
Green Economy


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


James Rucker

Organization:
ColorOfChange.org

Movement:
Racial Justice


Zainab Salbi

Organization:
Women for Women International

Movement:
Women's Rights


Alexia Salvatierra

Organization:
FaithRooted.org

Movement:
Economic Justice


Eric Schwarz

Organization:
Citizen Schools

Movement:
After-School Reform


Rinku Sen

Organization:
Applied Research Center

Movement:
Racial Justice


Saket Soni

Organization:
New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice

Movement:
Race and Immigration


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