About Rosemary Gould

Time for UVA to Pay a Living Wage!

Time for UVA to Pay a Living Wage!

Virginia Organizing Board member Lily Hungarland recently wrote this letter to the Cavalier Daily about the poverty wages workers are paid at the University of Virginia. The letter has not been publis ...

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Congratulations to Jill Hanken! Champion of Social Justice Award Winner

Congratulations to Jill Hanken! Champion of Social Justice Award Winner

Jill Hanken of the Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC) led the Healthcare for All Virginians Coalition (HAV) for many years. We appreciate her brilliant work to convince members of the General Assembly ...

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Leader Tyran Green Briefs Congressional Staff on Underfunding of IDEA

Leader Tyran Green Briefs Congressional Staff on Underfunding of IDEA

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools hosted a briefing for U.S. House staffers on January 25, 2019, focused on their report, Confronting the Education Debt.  The briefing highlighted the federal under- ...

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LaVerne Jackson – January/February 2019 Leader of the Month

LaVerne Jackson – January/February 2019 Leader of the Month

  Originally from Ohio, LaVerne Jackson moved to Virginia because of her husband’s military assignment here. She raised her children and worked as a nurse in pediatric health care, retiring after ...

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Brian Johns Named Coverage Health Advocate of the Year by Families USA

Brian Johns Named Coverage Health Advocate of the Year by Families USA

From Families USA on Monday, January 21, 2019: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today Families USA announced that Brian Johns is the winner of its Coverage Consumer Health Advocate of the Year award. He is being ho ...

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Progress for School Fairness in Lynchburg

Progress for School Fairness in Lynchburg

The Lynchburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing has been organizing for alternatives to school suspension for some time and their hard work is helping to make change happen! Last night (January 10), comm ...

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Virginia Organizing and Medicaid Expansion – the History

Virginia Organizing and Medicaid Expansion – the History

The University of Richmond's Public Interest Law Review has published its first issue of 2019, which includes an article written by Virginia Organizing's Director Brian Johns, Rosemary Gould, and Chai ...

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Top Ten of 2018!

Top Ten of 2018!

With your help, we've done great work this year. There have been too many local campaigns to include them all in our top ten, but please see some highlights of the year below. Your donation can make e ...

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A new world for all of us!

A new world for all of us!

Please join me in supporting Virginia Organizing. Your year-end donation will help us work to stop the evictions and create affordable housing in the City of Fredericksburg and the surrounding countie ...

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Virginia Organizing

The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Virginia Organizing

I joined the Portsmouth Chapter of Virginia Organizing two years ago because a friend of mine told me I could get help for my son there. He was suspended and threatened with expulsion from high school ...

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