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9:00am EST
Election Reflections and Charting A Path Forward Together
Thursday December 12, 2024 9:00am - 10:15am EST
Speakers MM
National Director, Working Families Power
Co-Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange (SiX)
Hon. Jessie Ulibarri is SiX’s Co-Executive Director. As a queer person of color, as a parent, and as someone who grew up in a trailer park, Jessie viscerally understands the demands the progressive movement makes of our elected officials for radical, transformative change. As a...
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Co-Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange
Neha Patel is SiX’s Co-Executive Director. Growing up in the Midwest (Indiana/Michigan) as the child of immigrants, she believes fiercely in the American Dream—where opportunity exists only if we fight for it on behalf of all of us. This foundational belief led Neha to a lifelong...
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Executive Director, BISC
Chris has been BISC’s Executive Director since June 2018, bringing two decades of experience in advocacy, creating collaborative spaces, and movement building. She has devoted her career to social justice and ensuring our democracy works for “We the People.” She is the first...
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State Senator, Georgia-41
Kim Jackson serves as Senator for Georgia State Senate District 41, representing portions of DeKalb County. Kim works every day to build a safer, fairer, and more prosperous Georgia, and bring the diverse voices of her district to the Capitol: immigrants, refugees, and people living...
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State Representative, Iowa-1
J.D. Scholten was born in Iowa and raised in Sioux City. He attended Morningside College, where he played baseball for his father who was the Head Coach. J.D. transferred for his Senior year to the University of Nebraska where he led the Cornhuskers in earned run average on the College...
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State Senator, Arizona-10
Stephanie Stahl Hamilton is an Arizonan having spent her early childhood years on Navajo Tribal Lands. She is married to Derek Hamilton, a middle school teacher in TUSD. Twenty-three years of marriage has blessed them with three children. After completing her Masters of Divinity at...
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4:15pm EST
Leading in an Authoritarian Moment: Global Models for Resistance in the State House
Thursday December 12, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
Speakers 
State Representative, Tennessee-52
Rep. Justin Jones is the youngest Democratic lawmaker in the state of Tennessee and proudly represents House District 52. He was expelled in April 2023 advocating for common sense gun laws and democracy, but was restored to his seat just three days later. He also serves as the Policy...
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Co-Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange (SiX)
Hon. Jessie Ulibarri is SiX’s Co-Executive Director. As a queer person of color, as a parent, and as someone who grew up in a trailer park, Jessie viscerally understands the demands the progressive movement makes of our elected officials for radical, transformative change. As a...
Read More →
Co-Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange
Neha Patel is SiX’s Co-Executive Director. Growing up in the Midwest (Indiana/Michigan) as the child of immigrants, she believes fiercely in the American Dream—where opportunity exists only if we fight for it on behalf of all of us. This foundational belief led Neha to a lifelong...
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Community Organizer
Keyanna Jones Moore is a Political and Social Justice Activist and Community Organizer from Atlanta, Georgia. She currently works as a Chapter Organizer with Sierra Club Georgia Chapter, where she emphasizes the need for Black People to understand how the environment impacts their...
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Executive Director, Women’s Equality Center (WEC)
Paula Ávila-Guillen is a Green Wave movement leader, international human rights lawyer, and Executive Director at the Women's Equality Center (WEC). She has helped lead the fight to decriminalize abortion in her home country of Colombia, and has supported the efforts that led to...
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Founder, GINIW Collective
Tara Houska is a mother, a land defender, a sundancer, an attorney and founder of Giniw Collective. She is committed to building a better world while protecting what remains of the sacred.
Former Colorado State Representative and SiX/SiX Action Board Member
Joe is an indigenous Coloradan. He was the first in his family to go to college. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. In 2003, he graduated from the University of Denver College of Law.In November 2012, Joe was elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives...
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Founder, SACRED
Pushkar Sharma is the founder of SACRED (the South Asian American Coalition to Renew Democracy), an action research and advocacy organization focused on advancing democracy and countering supremacist movements within the South Asian American community in Illinois. Prior to founding...
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6:30pm EST
SiX is Turning 10! Celebrating Our Collective Power
Thursday December 12, 2024 6:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Speakers
Former Colorado State Representative and SiX/SiX Action Board Member
Joe is an indigenous Coloradan. He was the first in his family to go to college. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. In 2003, he graduated from the University of Denver College of Law.In November 2012, Joe was elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives...
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State Senator, Minnesota-56, and SiX/SiX Action Board
Currently, Erin serves as a Minnesota State Senator and as a Special Projects Advisor at Gender Justice. When she was elected in November 2022, she became one of the first three Black women to be elected to the Minnesota Senate. She is also the first out lesbian in the Minnesota Senate...
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Co-Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange (SiX)
Hon. Jessie Ulibarri is SiX’s Co-Executive Director. As a queer person of color, as a parent, and as someone who grew up in a trailer park, Jessie viscerally understands the demands the progressive movement makes of our elected officials for radical, transformative change. As a...
Read More →
Co-Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange
Neha Patel is SiX’s Co-Executive Director. Growing up in the Midwest (Indiana/Michigan) as the child of immigrants, she believes fiercely in the American Dream—where opportunity exists only if we fight for it on behalf of all of us. This foundational belief led Neha to a lifelong...
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