MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS

 

To help ensure that we are ready to meet this extraordinary moment, organizations from across the progressive movement gathered together to develop a policy agenda on key progressive priorities, including both legislative and administrative proposals.

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WORKING GROUPS

 
 

Climate

The climate memorandum was informed by members of the Progressive Governance Project Climate Working Group. These organizations are in solidarity and agree on creating millions of high-quality jobs by transitioning to a clean energy economy, putting justice at the forefront, and responding to the climate urgency and averting climate related disasters. Not all of the opinions expressed in the memo are fully shared by all the organizations that contributed to its development.

Democracy

Color of Change

Common Cause

Demos

End Citizens United/Let American Vote

Public Citizen

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Economic Justice

Co-leads

Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies
Rion Dennis, Americans for Financial Reform
Haeyoung Yoon, National Domestic Workers Alliance

Additional contributing organizations*

Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE)
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
National Consumer Law Center, on behalf of its low-income clients
National Fair Housing Alliance

*Contributing organizations were not asked to endorse every proposal in the memorandum.

Foreign Policy

Salih Booker, Center for International Policy
Tobita Chow, Justice is Global
Diana Duarte, MADRE
Hassan El-Tayyab, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
Erica Fein, Win Without War
Mary Kaszynski, Ploughshares
Akhila Kolisetty, MADRE
Lindsay Koshgarian, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
Alex Main, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Erik Sperling, Just Foreign Policy
Yasmine Taeb, Center for International Policy

Healthcare

The following individuals and organizations helped prepare the healthcare memorandum.

Stan Dorn, Families USA
Jennifer Flynn Walker, Center for Popular Democracy
Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, National Partnership for Women & Families
Eagan Kemp, Public Citizen
Sanjeev Sriram, All Means All

These organizations are in solidarity and agree on the absolute urgency of advancing health equity, achieving universal health care, and limiting profiteering and inefficiency in health care. Not all of the opinions expressed in the memo are fully shared by all the organizations that contributed to its development.

Immigration

The immigration memorandum was informed by members of the Progressive Governance Project Immigration Working Group. These organizations are in solidarity and agree on an immigration agenda that centers racial justice, fairness, family unity, economic opportunity and American prosperity. Not all of the opinions expressed in the memo are fully shared by all the organizations that contributed to its development.

Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

The reproductive health, rights, and justice memorandum was heavily informed by the Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice–a proactive policy agenda to advance sexual and reproductive health in the United States and around the world signed by more than 90 organizations.

Worker Power

The following organizations contributed policy recommendations and priorities to the memorandum on worker power:

American Economic Liberties Project
Center for Disability Rights
Center for Law and Social Policy
Economic Policy Institute
Groundwork Collaborative
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
National Employment Law Project
National Partnership for Women and Families
National Women's Law Center
PolicyLink
Public Citizen
Washington Center for Equitable Growth