Cassandra Waters | Norfolk Organizer
Cassandra Waters joined Virginia Organizing as the Norfolk Chapter organizer in June 2024. Originally born in Portsmouth, she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High school and has als ...
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Michelle Tabbanor | Director of Communications
Michelle joined Virginia Organizing as the Communications Director in April 2024. She is from Virginia Beach, where she has been involved with many community service projects and ...
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Nora Scott | Waynesboro Organizer
Nora grew up in Nelson County and is self-taught. They enjoy studying the intersections of relational dialectics, historical materialism, and gender. “A big part of my politics su ...
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Paméla Frank Houndjo | Assistant Director of Finance and Administration
Paméla joined Virginia Organizing in the summer of 2023. She has a Bachelor of Science in Leadership Studies from Averett University and an Associate in Accounting from PVCC. ...
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Liz Cunningham | Halifax Organizer
Liz was born in Boston and attended the University of Rhode Island, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. In 2006, she moved to Halifax, Virginia where she found he ...
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Gayland Oliver | Southside Organizer
Gayland grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina where he learned community organizing from his mother at an early age, as he accompanied her throughout the community to register vot ...
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Clio Schurtz | Albemarle/Charlottesville Organizer
Clio is the Albemarle/Charlottesville Organizer as of June 2024. She joined Virginia Organizing in June of 2023 as the New River Valley Organizer, and after a year of working in t ...
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Justin Nick | Eastern Shore Organizer
Justin grew up in Southeast Maryland. He attended Albright College in Reading, PA for undergrad and Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC for his Masters in Divinity ...
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Elisabeth Chaves | Climate Equity Policy Fellow
Before becoming Virginia Organizing’s first Climate Equity Policy Fellow in 2022, Elisabeth was a member of the New River Valley chapter for four years. She first moved to Blacksb ...
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Karen Valdez | Harrisonburg/ Rockingham County Organizer
Karen became the Harrisonburg/Rockingham Organizer in the summer of 2022. Before that she had lived in Rockingham County for 13 years. Karen comes from a Hispanic/Latino household ...
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