Rebecca Smith, President
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Dana Johnson, Secretary
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Glencora BorradaileGlencora, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, believes that communication should be private and secure by default and worries about corporate and state threats to First Amendment-protected activities. At OSU, they have initiated a National Science Foundation-funded research program whose mission is to support the digital needs of activists, and ensure that everyone can communicate freely and safely, regardless of their identity. They also created and teach an interdisciplinary course on communications security and social movements that is offered through OSU. |
Cindy Cordova
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Kerul Dyer
Michael Hames-García
Anna HeldAnna Held is a Washington state-based attorney and activist, who specializes in working with immigrants, queer people, and forest activists. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon Law School and served as a CLDC law clerk for a semester while in law school. She is an active legal observer and CLDC know your rights trainer. |
Mookie MossMookie is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Bonfire Collective, an organization that uses the universality of agriculture to address international issues of social and environmental injustice and colonial inequality. As an organic farmer for the last twenty years, Mookie specialized in training the next generation of farmers and co-authored the Agricultural Reclamation Act which fought for family scale farms against the incursion of industrial agriculture. He was the President of Big Wildlife and led a campaign for cougar conservation in the State of Oregon. Mookie has organized behind the scenes and worked on the front lines throughout the Americas in the struggle against police brutality, economic imperialism, and the privatization of our natural resources. He can be found anywhere between his farm in the Little Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon and South Central Bolivia. |
Kiran OommenKiran Oommen is a Malayali-American community organizer, gardener, and musician based in Seattle, WA. They first connected with the CLDC at the first Next Generation Climate Justice Action Camp as a teenager, going on from there to get involved in the radical environmental movement in the Pacific Northwest. The last couple years They have helped organize the camp, and interned at the CLDC in the summer of 2017. Kiran is a plaintiff on the Juliana vs. USA federal climate change lawsuit, and associates with a variety of other direct action groups in the Pacific Northwest. They do vocals for the ecofeminist powerviolence band Pickax, and was the primary songwriter/vocalist/mandolinist for the anarcho-folk punk group Geophagia. Kiran is a part of a collectively run DIY space in Seattle where they book punk shows and radical events. |
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