Previously, Ms. Gore worked as an attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and the Sanctuary for Families Legal Center, and as Director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children (ABC). She has also worked as a writer and is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America. Ms. Gore is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia Law School and Union Theological Seminary. She lives in New York City with her three children and is a board member of the Association to Benefit Children (ABC) and Riverkeeper. Lexi worked for nearly five years as a legal assistant for immigration law and other general counsel services. She is also experienced. Stanley Mark coordinates free legal clinics in work centers and immigrant-led organizations. He represents and assists. President and member of the Pittsburgh City Council (2004-2011)During his tenure on the Pittsburgh City Council as a staff member and member (1992-2011), he was recognized for his expertise in government funding, land use and zoning, legislative literacy, and social issues that few others would do.
CELDF is staffed by committed individuals whose mission is to protect communities and nature and promote community rights. He has introduced laws and enacted laws on issues such as domestic violence in the municipal police, prevailing salaries for service employees in city-funded projects, protection from harassment in women`s reproductive health facilities, reporting of lost/stolen firearms, and an LGBT registry to facilitate gay benefits for the private sector. Stacey is a co-founder of CELDF. She leads the Human Resources department and is responsible for planning, organizing and directing the organization`s operations and programs. She was at CELDF during her many twists and turns, bringing degrees in biology and accounting to the group. His passion for this work was a driving force from the beginning: “We started small and knew it was a big task, but we kept moving towards our goal. I never dreamed that we would have all the employees we have now. It was a dream, a dream that you hope others will embrace, and now they have it. Information: [email protected] or 717-498-0054. We are pleased to announce that the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
has appointed Lusheena Warner as the organization`s first Chief of Staff. Committed to equity and trained in organizational management and human resources and culture strategy, Ms. Warner will lead the Office of the President and CEO and key strategic initiatives across the company as DFL continues to expand its impact and reach. Prior to joining LDF, Ms. Warner was Chief of Staff at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, where she helped develop and execute the business planning framework and oversaw the organization`s human resources and operations. She has served as Executive Director of Dancewave, Deputy Chief of Staff of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and Director of External Affairs at Hunter College, City University of New York.Ms. Warner holds an MBA from Baruch College, School of Public Affairs and a B.A. Ernest Brooks led this research with Diana Carmona and Clay Batley. Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) registered member of the Mississippi Anishinaabeg Band, who lives and works on the White Earth reservations and is a mother of three. She is also the Executive Director of Honor the Earth, where she works nationally to advocate for local environmental groups on the front lines, garner public support, and raise funds.
In 1994, Winona was named by Time magazine as one of the fifty most promising American executives under forty. She received the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women`s Leadership Scholarship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, which launched the White Earth Land Recovery Project. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch universities, Winona has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. She has served as a board member of Greenpeace USA and co-chair of the Indigenous Women`s Network, an Indigenous women`s organization in North America and the Pacific. In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth. She is the author of six books, including The Militarization of Indian Country (2011), Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming (2005), the non-fiction book All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999, South End Press) and a novel Last Standing Woman (1997, Voyager Press). Patrick Stegemoeller joined the AALDEF team in 2021 after working as a lawyer at the Guardian Project at the Vera Institute in . Ben was our first community rights organizer. He joined the team in 2004 and focused on Pennsylvania communities. Ben`s work has included supporting the first community on colonial lands on Earth to recognize legal rights to ecosystems (Tamaqua, PA, 2006), and working with the Pittsburgh City Council to pass a community bill of rights banning fracking, the direct challenge of the government`s anticipation of local control over oil and gas companies, and the recognition of natural rights. Today, he works nationally on municipal efforts.
Ben co-founded the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (Ecuador, 2010) and is the author of the book “How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property”, which won the 2020 Independent Publisher Silver Medal. He lives on the ancestral lands of the Delaware/Lenape and Mohicans in Pennsylvania. Information: [email protected], keybase.io/bengprice3gmailc (encrypted) or 717-254-3233. Lobel co-authored the award-winning book Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror (2007) with Professor David Cole, which won the inaugural Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Award for his exemplary research on the tension between civil liberties and national security. He is also the author of Success without Victory: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America (2003) and the editor of several books on civil rights disputes and the U.S. Constitution. Manager for the proxy board and ready to choose projects and votes Special Advisor President, The Pachamama Alliance (California)Bill Twist is a co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance (TPA) and has served as its President since its inception in 1996.
TPA is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, USA, that works for the preservation of rainforest and indigenous rights in the Western Amazon Basin as well as global social transformation. TPA is the creator of the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium and the UP to US initiative, two global efforts to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable and spiritually fulfilled human presence on this planet.