Grassroots International’s diverse Board of Directors brings deep experience working for human rights, global justice and international philanthropy. Meet the Board…
At the end of 2021, we lost our dear board member and comrade Janet Axelrod. Janet’s legacy will endure through the work of Grassroots International that she helped to nurture, and through the many other efforts she supported and lives she touched. Janet Axelrod, presente!
Maria Aguiar was, until spring of 2016, technical support staff for La Via Campesina at the international level on several internal organizational work teams and supported La Via Campesina North America Region. She is a Brazilian by birth, and has...
Kalila has over a decade of experience in community organizing around affordable housing, land development, and environmental justice. She served as the Executive Director at Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) for eight years. Before joining ACE in 2009, she...
Hendrix Berry is an Organizing Committee member of the Massachusetts Solidarity Economy Network and financial advisor/impact portfolio manager with Balanced Rock Investment Advisors.
Tiyospe Ota Yuha Win or Grace Goldtooth is from the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota also known as Cansayapi “Where They Paint the Trees Red”. She has led language revitalization as a Dakota language apprentice and teacher in Minnesota, engaged youth and families as a program specialist, and served as the Lower Sioux Tribal Historic Preservation Officer.
Shaun (Sha) Grogan-Brown, Deputy Director for Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ), considers himself a “plumber for the movement,” ensuring the collaborative fundraising models and logistical & administrative infrastructure necessary for grassroots organizing to happen. He has worked to strengthen movements...
Sam Jacobs is a movement donor and works in resource development at the Right to the City Alliance. Sam focuses his funding efforts on grassroots social movements that challenge white supremacy, colonialism, and corporations that threaten democracy and public health....
Jerrod MacFarlane is an editor, community activist, and donor organizer. He has spearheaded many popular education programs as well as coordinated major resource mobilizations for grassroots organizations and movements working to dismantle and replace structures and relationships of inequity.
Kathy Mulvey has a quarter century of experience in strategic corporate research, policy analysis, and campaigning and advocacy.
Denise Perry is a longtime community and labor activist and the Director and co-founder of Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity (BOLD).
Ninaj Raoul is a co-founder and community organizer at Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) in New York, an organization founded in 1992 to respond to the human needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants in the U.S., fleeing persecution. Through education,...
Jesenia A. Santana has over 15 years of experience dedicated to intersectional liberatory movements centering racial and gender justice. She is currently the Senior Resource Strategist with Solidaire Network where she works to mobilize resources for and build trusted relationships...
Sam Vinal lives in Los Angeles, California/occupied Tongva land. Sam is a filmmaker whose work consists of documentary and narrative projects grounded in the sociopolitical landscape. He found the medium as a means to combine his passion for the beautiful...
