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clarissa unger
co-founder and executive director
Clarissa Unger has a background in advocacy, communications, fundraising, and political campaigns and has worked on strategic campaigns both nationally and internationally. Prior to founding the SLSV Coalition, she served as the Development Coordinator for the Robert. J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas where she helped to promote civic and democratic engagement on campus. Clarissa has a Masters in Public Administration and a BA in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Kansas and a Masters in Comparative European Politics from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
Eddy Zerbe
Deputy Director
Prior to joining the SLSV Coalition, Eddy Zerbe was active in non-partisan civic engagement organizations from the local to the national level. Most recently, Eddy was the Director of RISE to Vote, a program that partners with college and professional sports teams, leagues, and athletes to improve civic engagement in our country. Eddy has also worked for the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. In Texas, he was a co-founder of MOVE Texas and worked in the office of State Representative Ruth Jones McClendon. He graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Danny Fersh
communications director
Before joining the SLSV Coalition, Daniel worked for more than three years at Laurel Strategies, where he crafted and executed communications strategies for leaders in technology, finance and philanthropy. Prior to Laurel Strategies, Daniel spent three years teaching English as a second language to both children and adults while living in the cities of Madrid and Seville, Spain. A graduate of Syracuse University, Daniel has a BS in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Spanish.
Bianca Rosales
Associate Director of Partnerships
Bianca is an activist and community organizer with experience at the local and national level. Prior to joining the team, Bianca was the Director of Community Engagement for a city council office in San Antonio, Texas. She also served as an elementary school educator where she organized her students and their families around immigration rights and helped lead efforts to bridge educational inequities in and out of the classroom. Before that, Bianca spent time in Washington, D.C. working for NARAL Pro-Choice America and fighting for reproductive freedom for all. Bianca Rosales was born and raised on the southside of San Antonio and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where she earned a B.S. in Communication Studies, Human Relations.
ZOë Williamson
Communications Manager
Prior to joining SLSV, Zoë served as the Deputy Press Secretary for a Louisiana gubernatorial campaign. Zoë graduated from Louisiana State University, where she majored in Political Communication. During her time at LSU, she served as the President of Geaux Vote LSU, as an Andrew Goodman Foundation Vote Everywhere Ambassador, as LSU Student Government’s Director of Communications, and as a Governor’s Fellow in Louisiana Government.
Jada McNeill
Program & Development Coordinator
Through her role as Program and Development Coordinator, Jada McNeill coordinates grant distribution, supports fundraising and development operations, and assists with the execution of SLSV programs. Before joining SLSV, Jad worked at New College of Florida and spent the last several years working as the inaugural Assistant Director of Civic Engagement at New College of Florida where she established and oversaw democratic engagement programs and initiatives under the NCF V.O.T.E.S framework. Jada also participated as an AmeriCorps VISTA at New College where she focused on addressing food insecurity on college campuses. Jada graduated with her MPH from Tennessee State University and her B.S. in Psychology from The University of Tennessee
Sithara Menon
Campus Engagement & Support Coordinator
Before joining the SLSV Coalition, Sithara was the Michigan Deputy State Coordinator for Campus Vote Project, and a Campus Organizer with the Student PIRGs prior to that. In those positions, Sithara worked with college students in California, Florida, and Michigan to run campaigns to increase student voter turnout and to protect the environment. She graduated from UCLA, and during her time as a student there she organized her peers to mobilize voters on their campus, fight food insecurity, and tackle climate change - including getting the university system to phase out single-use plastics. Sithara's childhood in a predominantly immigrant community inspires her passions for voting rights, and she's excited to continue working on that here at SLSV!
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Steven Adelson
Program Director - CivicTN
Alyssa Antonian
Deputy Director - Penn Leads the Vote at the University of Pennsylvania
Tiffany Bohm
Political Science Faculty & LMC Votes! Program Director - Lake Michigan College
Audrey Coleman
Director, Dole Institute of Politics - University of Kansas
Andres Cubillos
Director of External Affairs - Florida PIRG Students at Florida State University
Wendy Galván
Students Vote Project Coordinator - California Secretary of State
Joe Kennedy
Executive Director - The team
Arielle Mizrahi
UNIFY AMERICA
Katie Montgomery
Director, Government Relations - Cuyahoga Community College
Bry Moore
Communications Manager - ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge
Sarah Reinhardt
Director of Special Projects - Michigan Department of State
McKenzie Roller
Campus Coordinator of the New Voters Project, University of North Carolina NCPIRG
Rachel VanArsdale
Coordinator, Center for Civic Engagement and Learning - Case Western Reserve University
Shannon Williams
Community-Based Learning Coordinator - Inver Hills Community College
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MIKE BURNS
National Director, Fair Elections Center's Campus Vote Project
MIKE DEAN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LEADMN
JOY FULKERSON
DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tamer Mokhtar
Founder and Executive Director, All Americans Vote
Dr. Teri Platt
Associate Professor & Director of Honors Program, Clark Atlanta University
Pam Coleman
Leadership Coach & Strategic Consultant
Sam Novey
Chief Strategist, University of Maryland Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement
clarissa unger
Director
Clarissa Unger has a background in advocacy, communications, fundraising, and political campaigns and has worked on strategic campaigns both nationally and internationally. Prior to founding the SLSV Coalition, she served as the Development Coordinator for the Robert. J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas where she helped to promote civic and democratic engagement on campus. Clarissa has a Masters in Public Administration and a BA in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Kansas and a Masters in Comparative European Politics from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
Marissa Corrente
Deputy Director
Prior to working with the SLSV Coalition, Marissa Corrente was an Elections Coordinator for the Orange County FL Supervisor of Elections office where she managed Early Voting during the 2018 Midterm Election cycle. Before that, Marissa served as the Associate Director at the Rollins College Center for Leadership & Community Engagement where she supported community engaged learning & research as well as campus-wide democratic engagement. She received her BA in English from Bates College and her MA in Educational Leadership from the University of Central Florida.
Eddy Zerbe
Special Projects Director
Prior to joining the SLSV Coalition, Eddy Zerbe was active in non-partisan civic engagement organizations from the local to the national level. Most recently, Eddy was the Director of RISE to Vote, a program that partners with college and professional sports teams, leagues, and athletes to improve civic engagement in our country. Eddy has also worked for the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. In Texas, he was a co-founder of MOVE Texas and worked in the office of State Representative Ruth Jones McClendon. He graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Danny Fersh
Director of Communications
Before joining the SLSV Coalition, Daniel worked for more than three years at Laurel Strategies, where he crafted and executed communications strategies for leaders in technology, finance and philanthropy. Prior to Laurel Strategies, Daniel spent three years teaching English as a second language to both children and adults while living in the cities of Madrid and Seville, Spain. A graduate of Syracuse University, Daniel has a BS in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Spanish.
Bianca Rosales
Associate Director of Partnerships
Bianca is an activist and community organizer with experience at the local and national level. Prior to joining the team, Bianca was the Director of Community Engagement for a city council office in San Antonio, Texas. She also served as an elementary school educator where she organized her students and their families around immigration rights and helped lead efforts to bridge educational inequities in and out of the classroom. Before that, Bianca spent time in Washington, D.C. working for NARAL Pro-Choice America and fighting for reproductive freedom for all. Bianca Rosales was born and raised on the southside of San Antonio and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where she earned a B.S. in Communication Studies, Human Relations.
CARMEN LINERO-LOPEZ
Ask Every Student Program Manager
Prior to joining AES, Carmen was a National Campus Organizer with the Feminist Majority Foundation, where she worked to advance reproductive freedom and gender equity through collaboration with students across the western United States. Before that, she conducted academic research in Iowa; was a Legislative Assistant in the New York State legislature; and worked with various NGOs, political campaigns, and corporations in Pennsylvania, Afghanistan, Liberia, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Illinois, and South Africa. She is a graduate of Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Maddie wolf
Social Designer
In this role, she applies a human-centered design approach to creating tools, systems, and processes for increasing student voter participation. Her work focuses on several of the SLSV Coalition’s national partnerships with a main focus on Ask Every Student. Maddie’s past work includes developing Democracy Works’ Votes & Ballots and building a region-wide coalition of college student activists and organizers in Baltimore, Maryland. She was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
ZOë Williamson
Communications Coordinator
Prior to joining SLSV, Zoë served as the Deputy Press Secretary for a Louisiana gubernatorial campaign. Zoë graduated from Louisiana State University, where she majored in Political Communication. During her time at LSU, she served as the President of Geaux Vote LSU, as an Andrew Goodman Foundation Vote Everywhere Ambassador, as LSU Student Government’s Director of Communications, and as a Governor’s Fellow in Louisiana Government.
margaret trombly
Grants and development coordinator
Prior to this role, she worked on the Operations Teams for several campaigns throughout the 2020 cycle. Margaret previously worked with the SLSV Coalition during the 2018 Midterm Election cycle, and is excited to rejoin the team. She grew up in Arlington, Virginia and studied Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Dr. beatrice wayne
ACLS Leading Edge Fellow
Before joining the SLSV Coalition, Beatrice served as a faculty member at Harvard University’s History and Literature Concentration for three years. Prior to that, Beatrice held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Sydney’s Laureate Research Program in International History. Beatrice earned a PhD in History from New York University, and holds a Master’s degree in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as an educational researcher for Scholastic Books, and has received grants to conduct research on student political and social engagement across the United States, Canada and Ethiopia. She received her B.A from McGill College in Montreal, Canada.
