Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. Distinguished
Alumni
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Sylvia Vellino
Sylvia
started her career in politics during the Clinton Administration,
working as National Economic Advisor, Gene Sperling’s, Special
Assistant. After suffering through Bush’s first term, Sylvia
joined Grassroots Campaigns’ “Beat Bush” team
in January 2004. As part of the central staff, Sylvia worked on
the recruitment team and ultimately as part of the roving central
staff team, riding across the country trying to get out the Democratic
vote.
Sylvia is currently attending
Tulane Law School, and was recently awarded the Cowen Presidential
fellowship for Public Service. She continues her work for Grassroots
Campaigns helping with central staff operations – including
recruitment, alumni outreach, and helping new staff adjust to campaign
life. And of course, she’s doing her part in New Orleans,
hoping to make the impossible possible – by turning Louisiana
blue!.
Joey Wender
Joey
worked for GCI as a Canvass Director first in Boston and then in
New York leading his team to raise over $1 million for the Democratic
Party. He also was a Lead Organizer in the Dearborn, Michigan office
in the final month before the election helping to get Michigan voters
to the polls.
Since GCI, Joey spent three years
at law school and will be graduated from Harvard this June. Last
summer, he worked in Senator Kennedy's Judiciary Committee office.
During law school Joey has also worked for the ACLU of Massachusetts,
the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, the US Attorney's office,
Relman & Dane (a small civil rights impact litigation firm in
DC), and the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard.
Recently, Joey won the Heyman
Fellowship at Harvard and he is currently studying for the Illinois
bar this summer and will work on Capitol Hill this fall.
Max Schorr
Co-Founder
Good Magazine
In
2004, Max attended the Campaign Institute and was offered a position
at GCI. Initially, he worked out of the Boston office as a fundraiser
and field manager, and then as part of the logistics team to set
up office space, phone lines, and internet in the national field
offices. After the Milwaukee summit bringing together 600 GCI organizers
from across the country, Max served as an organizer in the "Ring
Of Fire" suburbs of Philadelphia, the Bryn Mawr office.
The
on-the-ground positive experience coupled with the taste of national
defeat stunned Max, and in retrospect, made him more realistic and
hungrier.
After
the election, Max thawed out a bit and took the LSAT, and a couple
weeks later started working on the beginning of GOOD Magazine. GOOD,
which launched in the fall of 2006, was named one of the top launches
of 2007, and recently was nominated for two national magazine awards
and two webby's. Starting something that you love from scratch was
an incredible experience for Max, though it often felt, to him,
like those endless campaign days.
One
notable innovation at GOOD: In an effort to find an alternative
to direct mail, we created the Choose GOOD Campaign, which allows
people to donate 100% of the subscription fee to a non profit organization
of their choice. This effort has saved GOOD significant money, while
raising over $800,000 for great initiatives including Ashoka, Kiva,
Slow Food and Teach For America. That's really what Max and the
terrific team at GOOD are up to, creating a collaboration of people,
businesses and non profits to push things forward.
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