Ben Thacker-Gwaltney is the Database Manager for Virginia Organizing. A native Virginian, Ben began working as an organizer in 1998 with the Lynchburg and Amherst County Virginia Organizing chapters before moving to Williamsburg in 2004. He then had responsibilities for organizing Williamsburg and on the Peninsula, as well as economics education, until taking on his new role in 2012. His two children, Amos and Sophie, are growing quickly, and his wife Susan teaches early-childhood Reading Education for UVA. “The thing I like about Virginia Organizing is our work for long-term change. We are building solid local organizations across Virginia in the hope of changing this state for everyone who gets pushed around and cut out of the possibility of a good life here. That’s a goal worth working for.”
