Denise Smith
Denise Smith has been with organization from the start. When she is not at her day job as co-program director of Wolf Creek Indian Village and Museum, she is spending time with he ...
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Dave Rogers | January/February 2020 Leader of the Month
Dave Rogers first came to Charlottesville when he was an undergraduate at UVA in 1965. After graduation, he moved to the Tidewater area to become a teacher, but he missed Charlott ...
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American Documentary Film Fund
The American Documentary Film Fund is a non-profit educational organization. We are inspired by our belief that documentary films have the power to be a positive force for change ...
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Center for Sustainable Communities
The Center for Sustainable Communities is a nonprofit whose focus is to make communities greener, cleaner, safer and more climate resilient through an equity and environment justi ...
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Kel BasAvraham | December 2019 Leader of the Month
Kel BasAvraham grew up in Mississippi, and has lived in many places, but came to Abingdon in their 30s. They’ve lived in various places in Appalachia but moved back to Abingdon ab ...
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Brandy Faulkner | November 2019 Leader of the Month
Brandy Faulkner wanted to get involved with Virginia Organizing years before there was a chapter in the New River Valley, so she joined immediately when an organizer moved to her ...
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Tyran Green | September/October 2019 Leader of the Month
At the Grassroots Gathering this year, Tyran spoke about her experience over the summer as an intern for Virginia Organizing. She and the other interns held a living wage rally at ...
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Rebecca Sue Brown: July/August 2019 Leader of the Month
Rebecca moved to Harrisonburg in 2010 after living much of her life in Colorado. Due to progressing symptoms of then undiagnosed Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, she had to endure nine sur ...
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Connie Wright-Zink: May 2019 Leader of the Month
Connie Wright-Zink of the Staunton/Augusta County/Waynesboro Chapter (SAW) grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. She and her husband moved first to Northern Virginia ...
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Karen Downing: March/April 2019 Leader of the Month
Karen Downing is a native of the Eastern Shore and its public schools. She went to Norfolk State University and then returned home in 1990 and got involved in service to the commu ...
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