Position Title:
Senior Trainer and Partnership Manager
Adriana Barboza has been a trainer with Wellstone Action for almost 6 years, and is also our partnership manager. She was born in Jalisco, Mexico and grew up in the South Side of Chicago. Adriana began organizing while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Submitted by admin on February 26, 2008 - 5:32pm.
Position Title:
Administrative Program Assistant
Mysti joins Wellstone Action after three years at a
Minneapolis-based learning and evaluation consulting firm, at which she worked
with philanthropic foundations and nonprofits in the fields of community
development, leadership, and civic engagement.
Submitted by sbmueller on May 1, 2012 - 3:23pm.
Jeff Blodgett has over 25 years experience in community organizing and political management.
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 3:12pm.
Position Title:
Development Team Volunteer
Marge Boyle is one of Wellstone Action's most loyal and hardworking volunteers. Marge is responsible for processing checks for Wellstone Action and helping to maintain relationships with the organization's thousands of donors around the country.
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 6:35pm.
Amy Conner is an undergraduate student at
the University of Minnesota, pursuing degrees in Political Science, History, and
Spanish Studies. Since 2008, she has worked as a Development Assistant at
Wellstone Action.
Submitted by sbmueller on October 31, 2011 - 2:18pm.
Position Title:
Finance and Benefits Manager
Kim Couch brings extensive experience in nonprofit financial management to Wellstone Action, including work as finance manager for the Salvation Army Harbor Light Center and the Cedar Riverside People's Center in Minneapolis.
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 3:19pm.
Position Title:
Director of External Affairs and Native American Leadership Program Director
Peggy Flanagan is a dynamic teacher, trainer, and community and political organizer who is enrolled in the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and is a member of the Maiingan Dodem (Wolf Clan). Peggy is our Director of External Affairs, and she also directs the Native American Leadership Program at Wellstone Action.
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 6:53pm.
Ben Goldfarb is the Executive Director
of Wellstone Action, the nation’s leading training center for progressive
organizers, candidates and campaign workers.
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 2:38pm.
Position Title:
Director of Camp Wellstone and Advanced Campaign Management School
As Wellstone Action's Director of Camp Wellstone and Advanced Campaign Management School, Jen Haut-Prokop puts to use her organizing skills to make these programs run. While at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, she worked as a peace and justice student organizer, notably creating publications to educate the campus community on issues of environmentalism, fair trade, and political advocacy.
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 3:15pm.
Louis serves as Executive Administrator for Wellstone Action.
Submitted by elana on June 16, 2008 - 11:50am.
Position Title:
Coordinator, Wellstone Organizing Fellows
Nevada Littlewolf is a member of the
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. She is an elected official and serves on the City
Council in Virginia, Minnesota. Nevada has years of experience working across
sectors with government officials, community-based organizations, nonprofit
leaders, and business professionals, and we are thrilled that Nevada joins Wellstone Action as the Coordinator of our Wellstone Organizing Fellows program.
Submitted by elana on March 6, 2009 - 4:11pm.
Position Title:
Director of Campus Camp Wellstone
Naomi is one of our newest staffers and the Director of Campus Camp Wellstone!
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 8:26pm.
Position Title:
Director of Communications and Marketing
Sara Beth Mueller (and you say that "Miller" - she, too, would like to understand why) comes to Wellstone Action after more than 10 years with Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. She served most recently as Planned Parenthood's Communications Director, where her work on opposition messaging and tactics was replicated nationwide.
Submitted by sbmueller on June 27, 2011 - 3:35pm.
Position Title:
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Labor Training Program Director
Erik
Peterson brings 30 years of experience as a community-based educator,
trainer, and community and electoral organizer to his role as Wellstone
Action's Director of Strategic Initiatives. He also directs our Labor Training Program.
Submitted by sbmueller on August 31, 2011 - 1:58pm.
Position Title:
Deputy Director, Strategic Capacity Development, Labor Training Program
Edith is our newest staff member, joining Wellstone Action in January 2012 as the Deputy Director of Strategic Capacity Development for our Labor Training Program!
Submitted by Ccyprian on November 5, 2009 - 1:22pm.
Position Title:
Deputy Director, Political Action and Mobilization, Labor Training Program
Sarah comes to Wellstone Action after working at the Human Rights Campaign as a Regional Field Director for the Pacific NW and the South.
Submitted by elana on October 13, 2008 - 3:33pm.
Sujata has two decades of experience with progressive and Democratic campaigns and organizations. She has developed and directed electoral and issue advocacy campaigns and strategized with organizations and donors to lead them through critical junctures in development.
Submitted by elana on April 29, 2008 - 1:53pm.
Position Title:
Deputy Director, Development
A native New Yorker, DawnMarie Vihrachoff was raised in Florida, where she got an early start in politics as an intern in the office of her local congresswoman. DawnMarie earned her bachelor's degree in political science at Florida State University, and served as an organizer for Planned Parenthood during her college years.
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 2:49pm.
Position Title:
Director of Training Programs
The child of political activists, Mattie has been doing direct action, community organizing and campaign work her entire life (including as an 11 year old doorknocker on Paul Wellstone's first Senate campaign). A 2001 graduate of Swarthmore College, she studied political science and organized students and staff around issues of global economic justice, local race politics, and a campus-based living wage campaign.
Submitted by admin on April 8, 2008 - 6:44pm.
