Janice Reyes Executive Director Hope Center for the Arts

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Fine art Reyes III – Executive Director

Art is the founding Executive Director of We The People. He was born and raised in Flint, MI and hails from three generations of proud UAW members. Earlier WTP, Art was the training director at the Centre for Popular Democracy, where he led national training programs for organizers, lead staff, and executive directors. He spent much of 2016 working in Flintstone responding the water crisis and helped launch Flint Ascension. Previously he led Michigan Voice, a statewide civic engagement organization. He has a BA from Michigan and MPP from Harvard where he taught a customs organizing class with Marshall Ganz. He'south filled with random facts almost the state of Michigan and lives with his married woman Ashley, baby Emilio, and gigantic puppy named Kona the Coney Dog.

Maria Ibarra-Frayre - Deputy Director

Maria is the Deputy Director for Nosotros the People Michigan. She immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico when she was nine years onetime and grew upward Southwest Detroit and Dearborn. Maria has been fighting for immigrant justice for nigh a decade, including grassroots organizing and political advocacy. She works closely with grassroots organizations to create alternative systems of immigrant-centered support and working to put people of color and women in positions of leadership. Maria graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy with a degree in English, then went on to become a Masters of Social Work at the University of Michigan. On her free time Maria likes going for hikes, drinking expensive tea, and trying to publish her poetry.

Rhonda Powell - Statewide Operations Director

Rhonda Powell is the Statewide Operations Director for We The People-MI, which is focused on community organizing and seeks to build a multi-racial, working class constituency across the state rooted in economic, racial and social justice. She is too the founder and Vice-Chair of Metro Equity Collaborative, a nonprofit arrangement in Macomb County working to build advocacy and power in civics, economic science, pedagogy and social justice.

In Rhonda's previous office, she served as Director of the Macomb County Health and Customs Services Department. She is the start African American appointed every bit a Director in Macomb Canton.

Rhonda has an extensive history of leadership experience which as well includes; Director of Macomb Customs Action Agency, Deputy Manager of Michigan'south Aging and Developed Services Agency, Director of Macomb County Senior Services and Manager of MCREST. Rhonda has received multiple awards for her strategic leadership and vision, including the 2019 Athena Honour from the Macomb Chamber Foundation.

Rhonda has been committed to the work of advocacy, equity, inclusion, and organizational development for over xx years. She is a certified Sixth Sigma Greenish Belt, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Siena Heights University, and a Master of Science degree from Capella University, both of which are concentrated in Man Service.

Michelle Davidson, LLMSW - Operations Coordinator

Michelle is the operations coordinator with We The People-MI. She provides back up for the system with a strategic focus on equity, the quality of life, and diversity and inclusion. Michelle'southward passion involves working with community leaders to organize, host and collaborate on community events that empower individuals.

Michelle earned her Bachelors of Social Work from Oakland University and received her Masters of Social Piece of work from Wayne Land Academy.

Terry Blastenbrei, SHRM-CP – HR Coordinator

Terry Blastenbrei brings years of Hr and operations experience, a passion for empowering marginalized voices, and a drive to build great people-centered organizations to We The People as its 60 minutes Coordinator. Built-in and raised in St. Louis, later graduating from college, he spent xx years working around the country in various industries. But in 2016, he found his true calling when he served as the Projection Manager on a voter registration project in Michigan. Subsequently working on several political campaigns across the country, he fabricated Michigan his permanent home in 2018, serving as the Operations Director at For Our Future Michigan until 2021. Prior to his arrival at WTP, he was the Compliance and Operations Director for Yep 4 Minneapolis, a ballot initiative to expand public condom and modify policing in the urban center.

Terry holds a Available of Arts in Psychology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a Master of Management from Fontbonne University, and is a Society for Human Resource Management-Certified Professional. In his downtime, he loves traveling, watching hockey and spending time with his wife and their two cats in St. Clair Shores.

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Megan Hess - Rural Organizing Director

Megan is the Rural Organizing Managing director with Nosotros The People based in Sault Ste. Marie, as well equally a volunteer customs organizer nested in rural America, and a former announcer. With an educational background in literature, she's deeply interested in personal stories and storytelling, and how narrative can empower and disempower. Megan is also a member of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, a mother, and a water protector and pulls a chair to the tabular array for Native rights, intersectional feminism and ecology justice. Megan balances her work life with chocolate, yoga, and time on Lake Superior.

Betsy Coffia - Rural Pb Organizer

Betsy is a rural pb organizer with Nosotros The People and is based in Traverse City. She is a political strategist, social worker and former newspaper editor. She currently serves as a 2-term canton commissioner in 1000 Traverse Canton. Betsy is proud to honour her working class rural roots, and credits her female parent for instilling a stiff work ethic. She is passionate nigh centering the voices, feel, leadership and nobility of marginalized communities. Betsy nurtures her introvert side by spending time solitary with trees and h2o, or enjoying life with her rescue pup Pax.

Caitlin Homrich-Knieling - Deep Canvass Coordinator

Caitlin is the Deep Canvas Coordinator with We The People based in Detroit. Organizing constitute her while she was doing her MA in Anthropology at UMass Amherst in 2014-2016. She is originally from the rural, working class "Thumb" of Michigan, and she roots her motivation to fight for multiracial liberation in the lives of her loved ones at that place. Her vocation is using the practices of curiosity, storytelling, honesty, and beloved to build bridges with people of different life experiences and perspectives, and training others to do the aforementioned. She is a new mama and devotes her spare time to Catholic prayer practices, giving astrology readings, renovating her home in Detroit, and visiting her family unit.

Biidaaban Reinhardt — Environmental Justice Organizer

Biidaaban M. Reinhardt is an Anishinaabe Ojibwe adult female from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She completed her Bachelors caste in Physics and Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University and recently graduated with her Masters degree in Sustainable Construction at SUNY College of Ecology Science and Forestry in August 2020. Her thesis research focused on traditional ecological cognition and experimental design in contemporary building materials in the Great Lakes Region.

Biidaaban was a Climate Justice Rural Media Young man for MEJC Activity! in which she completed a media project highlighting environmental justice concerns for Michigan tribes. Lastly, Biidaaban is a graphic designer with Williamson Creative Agency and has led the artistic concepts and graphic design for various organizations, events, and conferences such as the Native American Critical Issues Briefing for five years with the Michigan Indian Instruction Council.

Johanna Bogater — Northern Michigan Organizer

Johanna Bogater is a Southwest Michigan native that moved to the Upper Peninsula for information technology's remote quality and natural beauty. The political climate of recent years motivated her to get active. As a part of the group she co-founded, Alger County Action - whose goal is to become locals into role - she became a City Commissioner. Since its creation the group has gotten representation in many spaces beyond the county likewise as participated in voter advocacy work and actions around problems campaigns related to economic, racial, ecology and social justice. She will serve as a Northern Michigan Organizer with We The People.

Yvonne Navarrete - Policy Managing director

Yvonne Navarrete is the Policy Director for We the People Michigan. She was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and immigrated to Detroit, Michigan at the age of two. Her experiences growing up undocumented in Detroit accept driven her to fight to concord governments answerable & invest in the power of her customs. She earned a B.A. in Public Policy from the University of Michigan where she organized for Latinx and undocumented student issues. She so went on to earn her Thousand.A. in Urban Education Policy from Brownish Academy. She now lives and organizes in Detroit at the intersection of immigration and education justice equally a cadre team member of MIStudentsDream.

Amina Khalique - Policy and Research Associate

Amina is a Political Scientific discipline student with a concentration in Public Policy at Wayne State University. Growing upwardly in a low-income family unit with parents who are immigrants, Amina started to become interested in the systems and policies in place that are oppressing low-income families in her community. In high school, she participated in a fellowship program that exposed her to social justice and politics. She speedily became interested in social issues and inequities in her customs. Amina became involved in politics and organizing effectually a range of issues including gun violence, sexual set on, domestic violence, every bit well equally menstrual inequity. Today, she spends a lot of her time participating in fellowships, internships, and programs to learn how to amend solve the issues affecting her community, and she hopes to exercise this primarily through studying policy change. Amina wants to be a force of modify for people in need - one policy at a fourth dimension. She also loves spending time with family and friends, swell funny jokes, and recharging nigh large bodies of water!

Nelly Fuentes - Michigan Immigrant Justice Coordinator

Nelly is a regional organizer with We The People in Southwest Michigan. She is a native adult female of Mesoamerica who migrated to the Michigan region at the beginning of the century, landing in Kalamazoo in 2006. She believes in the human right to gratis migration within Turtle Island and is passionate about migrant liberation efforts. Anti-colonial practices and healing are at the center of her organizing vision. As part of her healing practices, she invokes the guidance and wisdom of her ancestors through the art of tortilla making.

Elnora Gavin - West Michigan Organizer

Elnora is a poet, author, playwright, publisher, activist and consultant. She was born and raised in Benton Harbor, MI and graduated from Benton Harbor High School in 1994. After graduating from Howard Academy with a Bachelors of Arts Caste in Legal Communications with a small in Business Management, Elnora continued working as a contracts banana for a management services consulting firm in the Metro DC expanse as a logistics coordinator for the Department of Health and Homo Services. Her volunteer service with the Howard Chapter of the Big Blood brother Big Sis Program ignited her calling to render habitation and work as an educator in both traditional and alternative environments. As a convening partner for the Race2Equity Benton Harbor Hub and Co-Founder of the Peace4Life Student Organization, Elnora facilitated healing workshops, community events and strategy sessions to accost primal areas of local business organisation with regard to destabilization efforts of public schools in both the Urban center of Benton Harbor and beyond the State of Michigan. In collaboration with residents, racial equity leaders, and supporting organizations, Elnora worked to constitute alliances that empowered public schoolhouse advocates and students to successfully change the political narrative that was driving school closures.

Diego Navarrete-Castañeda — UndocuSchool Coordinator

Diego is an undocumented organizer and proud Southwest Detroiter. He was born in Mexico and migrated with his family unit at a young age to Detroit, Michigan. As an undocumented immigrant and DACA recipient, Diego has been an advocate for immigrant rights and social justice. He has been an agile organizer since the historic period of 14, empowering other youth in Detroit to engage in local politics and advocate for issues affecting their communities effectually education, immigration, and economic justice. Diego is a contempo graduate from Harvard Higher, where he studied Government and organized with undocumented members of the Boston community. He is passionate nigh empowering undocumented folks and building avenues of political participation for immigrant communities.

Layla Elabed — Atomic number 82 Southeast Michigan Organizer

Layla is a lead regional organizer with We The People in Southeast Michigan. She is a proud girl of Palestinian immigrants, number twelve of her xiv brothers and sisters, and female parent of three fierce future social justice warriors. Layla has been a long-time advocate for intimate partner violence and sexual assault prevention, environmental justice problems, voter rights, and movements that amplify justice, and the voices of blackness and brown communities. She continues to appoint the commonage power of her ancestral roots and her learning to shift and empower marginalized communities for equitable and sustainable change. To counter burn out, Layla makes fourth dimension to spend with family and friends, and eating good food.

Atinusewakariaye "Tinu" Roland - Detroit Organizer

Tinu is a regional organizer with We The People in Detroit. She is the mother of 3 girls -- a third grader, preschooler, and babe. She is the President of HOPE Hamlet Families Community Association, a customs organization on the westward side of Detroit that she helped found, and recently received the Michigan Customs Resources Power of 1 defended women honour for her work with Promise Village Families. She likewise serves as an education organizer with Good Jobs Now and a swain with Mothering Justice. Star believes that, in this work, y'all have to be the change you want to see in guild to truly be effective.

kamau@wethepeoplemi.org

Kamau Jawara - Detroit Organizer

Kamau is Detroit Organizer for Nosotros The People. He is the product of black ability, belatedly dark Coney Island runs, and the music our ancestors made in homage to their ancestors' field music. With our community'due south demand for dignity, mobility, and restoration at the heart of his work, Kamau is an organizer, multidisciplinary storyteller, and friend for all who would join u.s.a. in our fight for a better Michigan. As an organizer, he aims at building black people's power in their communities and the narratives around them through human relationship building, digital organizing, and cultural organizing. For Kamau, organizing requires both time and a connectedness with our younger, more ambitious self-- a self devoid of division and apathy. That is to say, in guild to paint the picture nosotros wish to see, it is of import to go on the flooring and grab crayons!

Rosario Molina — Southeast Michigan Organizer

Rosario was born to a Salvadoran migrant father, and a white mother, raised the oldest of 7 children in a Christian household. Being the production of two very unlike, complicated backgrounds fabricated for an upbringing that was equal parts exciting and difficult. In an effort to award as much of her identity as possible, and lean into both loving others and herself, Rosario took on a diverseness of odd jobs, from a Registered Beliefs Technician, to a part-time teacher, to a medical assistant position before discovering organizing. As an organizer, she uses her varied life experiences to inform every action and campaign she builds, working to create a future where people in the situations she and her loved ones accept encountered have better, more human being options.

vidhya@wethepeoplemi.org

Vidhya Aravind - Learning Director

Vidhya is the Learning Managing director for We The People and is based in Detroit. She originally moved to Washtenaw County to earn her Master'southward of Information from the University of Michigan, and now plans to call the area home forever. After coming out equally trans while a student, she participated in immigrant, labor, trans, and constabulary accountability activism, and was particularly instrumental in major wins by the Graduate Employees' Arrangement 3550. She hopes to honor the trans women of color that came earlier her by organizing cloth aid and community structures for local trans folks in need. In her spare fourth dimension, she facilitates workshops for queers, plays games of all kinds, intentionally finds ways to spend time with her trans family, and is slowly transforming into an outdoors lesbian.

Sargeant Donovan-Smith – Data Manager

Sargeant is the Information Managing director with We The People - MI. Before coming to Michigan, Sargeant was a loftier school math instructor and an institutional researcher at the City University of New York. She draws on her past every bit a teacher and educational researcher to blueprint accessible data systems that will assist community organizers build organizing power across Michigan. Since moving to Michigan in 2016, Sargeant has done racial justice and Movie abolition organizing in Ann Arbor, MI.

Sargeant earned her Bachelors from Williams Higher and her Master of Arts in Didactics from Teachers College; she also has two unfinished Masters degrees in African History (from The Graduate Eye CUNY and the Academy of Michigan), which she hopes to complete someday.

harnoor singh (ਹਰਨੂਰ ਸਿੰਘ) — Data Acquaintance

harnoor singh (ਹਰਨੂਰ ਸਿੰਘ) is the Data Associate for We the People-Michigan. He is the son of Punjabi immigrants and a member of the Sikh customs. He uses the teachings and values of Sikhi to motivate his piece of work and passion to create a globe without prisons and borders where all people have the correct and access to a happy and healthy life. He earned a B.Southward. in Folklore and Statistics at the University of Michigan where he did small-scale-group facilitation work on gender and how it is socialized and policed. He organizes camps and workshops in the Sikh community that he grew upward with and works with young men to talk about healthy masculinities and how to achieve them.

Eli Day - Communications Manager

Eli is a Detroiter. He's most grateful for his city's people, and their trigger-happy conclusion to survive and build a more beautiful world -- both across the many corners of the metropolis they love and beyond them. He spent years billowy between piece of work as an organizer, congressional policy aide, and communications adviser. Most recently, he'south been working as a journalist, spotlighting working-class movements for racial and economic justice at spots similar In These Times magazine, Mother Jones, Playboy, Vox, the Root, and more.

Catalina Rios- Hernandez - Cultural Strategist

Catalina was born in United mexican states but considers Detroit, Michigan her habitation. A concept that she is slowly reclaiming. She has been organizing around different social justice problems, specially clearing for more than than a decade. The root of how she approaches her movement work is making social justice attainable and believes in the power of art and culture to create that bridge. Her fine art practice is poetry just besides enjoys painting and caring for plants. She loves visiting the Detroit river and taking walks in Belle Isle, especially during dusk.

Tanisha Lynn Pyron, Social Media Acquaintance

Tanisha Lynn Pyron (Pretty Fire) is a classically trained actress, professional theatrical director and a co-founding member of Face Off Theatre Company. Almost recently she directed Absentia at Ohio University and is excited to brand her render to the stage. She is a virtuosic artist, creative photographer, spoken word poet, teacher, influencer, storyteller, and media entrepreneur currently working on publishing her kickoff book of original poetry. BLACK POOL OF GENIUS Volume I and launching Tanisha Lynn Pyron Creative Services,LLC as a media make. The subversive black girl artist considers herself to be a modernistic twenty-four hour period griot focusing on telling stories that redefine and re-appropriate "Blackness AMERICANA" highlighting and finding the beauty in the contradictions, pain and pride within "our stories" and thus hoping to observe and re-claim the dazzler within her own. She has used interim, poetry, dance, and photography as modalities for making certain her creative vision and voice are seen, heard and felt. In her ain words Tanisha expresses, "To me the art and the artist are one. As I seek to unlock and limited what is contained in my own eye and to heal and celebrate my own beauty and spirit."

Hoai An Pham - Digital Organizer

Hoai An Pham is an organizer based in Ann Arbor, MI, where she was born and raised every bit a first generation Vietnamese American. As a disabled abolitionist, she has worked in movements around immigration, labor, climate, prisons, and racial justice, with the goal of edifice long-term, welcoming community. She is currently the Digital Organizer for We the People-MI and also the director of her twenty-six Sims.

keith@wethepeoplemi.org

Keith Atkinson - Technology Coordinator

Keith Atkinson is the Technology Coordinator with We The People and is based in Hancock Michigan. He has an extensive background in software, web, and app development. Keith works to organize the team's technical needs and manage IT Infrastructure. In the summertime he enjoys gardening, permaculture and organizing customs gardens.

Alex Colina - Research Director

Alex is the Enquiry Director for Nosotros The People. In his work, he highlights the intersections of ability, privilege, and race in regards to wellness equity, access to basic needs, and the social implications of medicine. Previously, Alex has worked in statewide health policy organizing at MICHUHCAN, academic health disparities enquiry at Wayne State University, and public wellness information and policy at the Detroit Wellness Department. He teaches in urban studies, public wellness, geography and data visualization. Alex has a map for everything and is passionate about research justice, data literacy, and counter-mapping.

danielscarolve.blogspot.com

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Janice Reyes Executive Director Hope Center for the Arts

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