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Jillian Blake

Jillian Blake is an immigration and asylum attorney at Blake & Wilson Immigration Law, PLLC in Alexandria, Virginia. 
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Jay Saper

Jay Saper is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace and lives in Brooklyn, New York. 
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Tori Bateman

Tori Bateman is the policy advocacy coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee.
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Susan Kaplan

Susan Kaplan is an environmental lawyer, research assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, and freelance writer. She has held policy positions in …
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Linda Armitage

Linda Armitage is a board member and grassroots leader with Jane Addams Senior Caucus in Chicago. She is on the grassroots team for the campaign for a national Homes …
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Vanessa Raditz

Vanessa Raditz is co-founder of Queer Ecojustice Project, a media and education collective. She is director of QEP’s first film project, “Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era …
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Patty Berne

Patty Berne is the co-founder and co-director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based performance project.
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Elise Boyle Espinosa

Elise Boyle Espinosa is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law at the University of Aberdeen. Funded by the European Union’s Horizon …

Isabelle Seckler

Isabelle Seckler is a first-year student at Columbia University in New York.
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Jason Kelley

Jason Kelley is a Digital Strategist on EFF’s Activism Team. Before joining EFF, Jason managed marketing strategy and content for a software company that helps non-programmers learn to code, …