Terran Young | Wise County Organizer
Terran became the Wise County Organizer in 2022. She spent her early childhood in Wise County, moved to Middletown, Ohio, and then returned home as a young adult after college. Sh ...
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Rachel Hefner | Richmond Area Organizer
Rachel Hefner became the Richmond Organizer in 2022. She grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and went to Meredith College where she studied social work and Spanish. While she wa ...
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Sunny Hawkins | Development Director
Sunny discovered Virginia Organizing as a student when she was assigned to cover an event for a writing class where she heard Suffolk Organizer Tony Jones speak. She began volunte ...
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Glenda Crockett-Eans | Wythe County Organizer
Glenda grew up in Wytheville, where she and her family returned 17 years ago, and has worked as an elementary school teacher for 16 years. She went to college at North Carolina A ...
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Sarah Miller | Newport News/Hampton Organizer
Sarah grew up in the Midwest and has a background in the military, which brought her to the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. In 2014 she got involved with the Norfolk Chapter. She ...
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Eric Olson-Getty | Director of Programs
Eric Olson-Getty grew up in Vermont and came to Virginia via North Carolina in 2014. He moved to Harrisonburg when his wife got a new job, but arrived looking for opportunities to ...
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Jorge Mendez | Organizing Co-Director
Jorge Mendez joined Virginia Organizing as the Fredericksburg Organizer in June of 2019, and became the Co-Director of Organizing in 2024. He grew up in El Salvador, where he bega ...
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Tony Jones | Suffolk Organizer
Tony Jones joined Virginia Organizing when the Portsmouth Chapter was just getting started. He became the Suffolk Organizer in April of 2018. A native of Portsmouth, Tony knows fi ...
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Meghan McNamara | Organizing Co-Director
Meghan McNamara is a community and labor organizer who joined Virginia Organizing in January 2016 and became the Co-Director of Organizing in 2024. Prior to joining the organizati ...
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Ben Thacker-Gwaltney | Database Manager
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 Vir ...
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