Deborah Gentry: October 2010
Deborah Gentry of Charlottesville is one of many community leaders engaged in Virginia Organizing’s civic engagement activities. Deborah has volunteered to make thousands of ...
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Jan Reeves: September 2014 Leader of the Month
Jan Reeves is a Virginia Organizing leader in her hometown of Abingdon, Virginia. She lived in northern Virginia for a time and when she moved back to the mountains about a year a ...
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Cynthia McVey: August 2011 Leader of the Month
Cynthia McVey of the Valley recently got involved with Virginia Organizing through local work on Social Security, immigration and jobs. On August 19, she shared her story of being ...
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Eunice Haigler: August 2014 Leader of the Month
Eunice Haigler became interested in Virginia Organizing because of criminal justice work and Medicaid expansion. Eunice is one of the 400,000 people who would benefit from Medicai ...
Read More »Andrea Jackson: June/July 2012 Leader of the Month
Andrea Jackson was introduced to Virginia Organizing as a college student attending a “Dismantling Racism” workshop and has been an active leader in Waynesboro since O ...
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Nicholas DeFilippis: July 2014 Leader of the Month
Nicholas DeFilippis started as an intern with Virginia Organizing in 2011 and continued to work with the Richmond Chapter as a leader after his internship ended. The work Virginia ...
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Ramona Sanders: June 2014 Leader of the Month
Ramona Sanders has been an active leader with Virginia Organizing for four years. During this time, she has worked on environmental, anti-poverty, predatory lending, and other cam ...
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Yolander Davis: May 2014 Leader of the Month
Yolander Davis began working with the South Hampton Roads Chapter on health care reform and Medicaid expansion because she wanted to share her own health care story. Yolander is a ...
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Marty Jackson: April 2014 Leader of the Month
Marty Jackson began working with the Danville Chapter of Virginia Organizing in 2013. As a former felon, Marty understands the issues that many people face when trying to re-enter ...
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David Harrison: April 2011
David Harrison from Ringgold, in Pittsylvania County, first came to a Community Jobs Program campaign meeting last summer and has been an active member since. David is passionate ...
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