Student and Parent Organizers

Restorative Justice Movement, Education Justice Movement, Racial Justice Movement

Bayliss Fiddiman (she/her) is the Director of Educational Equity and Senior Counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. She advocates for policies to support girls of color, for pregnant and parenting students, and for equal access to education for women and girls. She previously worked as Associate Director of K-12 Education at the Center for American Progress where she advocated for polices to ensure that all students have access to a quality education.

She also worked at the Education Law Center in Newark, NJ and the Educational Testing Service where she addressed opportunity gaps, advocated for adequate school funding, and worked on litigation in Flint, MI related to the water crisis. She has published a variety of op-eds and reports about education policy. Her commentary has been featured in many publications including Politico, The Hill, Washington Post, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and PBS NewsHour.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in legal studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with Commonwealth Honors College distinction, and her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law. She started her career with the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) which investigates cold cases of anti-civil rights violence and seeks restorative justice on behalf of families and communities.

She is a Past President of the Greater Washington Area Chapter, Women Lawyers Division, National Bar Association (GWAC), and serves on the Women’s Bar Association of DC Foundation Board. She also serves on the Advisory Board for CRRJ.

Women and Children Rights Movement, Racial Justice Movement, Community Crisis Care Movement

Sedella Jefferson (sh/her) is a passionate advocate for women and children’s rights and has worked at the state and national level to ensure child welfare policies are equitable and centered on positive outcomes for foster youth. She is committed to providing education and policy resources to communities so that they can harness their own power and strength to influence public opinion and government action. She previously worked for a corporate foundation where she coordinated grantmaking and foundation relations. Sedella holds a BA in literature and world languages from the University of Arkansas.

Climate/Green Movement, Racial Justice Movement, Secular Humanist Movement

Nadya Dutchin (she/her) is the Executive Director of ShareBaby; a nonprofit that seeks to address the unmet basic needs of Baltimore’s most vulnerable young children through the distribution of diapers and other essential items. She previously served as the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association in Washington, DC. During her tenure, she spearheaded public education initiatives, fostered strategic partnerships, and enhanced member engagement, resulting in significant growth for the organization, which boasts a membership of more than 37,000 individuals across 240+ chapters. She has held various executive management positions within the nonprofit sector and currently serves on the Board of Directors for multiple organizations, including her current role as Board President for Our Climate.

Dutchin received her bachelor's degree from Florida A&M University and completed a certificate in Financial Success for Nonprofits from Cornell University in 2023.

Gender Justice Movement, Animal Rights and Welfare Movement, Tech Accountability Movement

Elisa Camahort Page is the Co-Founder of Optionality, a community focused on rewriting the rules of work, because the "future" of work is now. Prior to Optionality, Elisa was the Founding COO of BlogHer, Inc. She and her co-founders took BlogHer from grassroots movement to national women’s media brand. Through BlogHer’s community and business practices, and her own, Elisa has built community, scaled businesses, and championed inclusivity in words and action at the intersection of content, community, and commerce.

Since moving on from the company that acquired BlogHer, in 2017, Elisa co-authored Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All, a guidebook on how to become a more effective everyday activist, with Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson and has taken on multiple C-level roles at very early stage start-ups, consulted with renowned non-profit and media organizations, and coached countless entrepreneurs. 

Climate Movement, Environmental Movement, Democracy Movement

Dr. Andrew  Rosenberg (he/him) is a marine scientist, environmental and science policy expert.  He recently  retired after serving as the inaugural director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists where he and his team focused on the role of science and scientists in public policy. He has more than 35 years of experience in government service and academic and non-profit leadership. He is the author of scores of peer-reviewed studies and reports on fisheries and ocean management and the intersection between science and policy making.

For ten years he was a professor of natural resources and the environment at the University of New Hampshire where he previously served as dean of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture.  While on leave of absence he served as the chief scientist for Conservation International.

Previously, he served as the northeast regional administrator of the National Marine Fisheries Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where he negotiated recovery plans for New England and mid-Atlantic fishery resources, endangered species protections and habitat conservation programs. He later became deputy director of the fisheries service.

Dr. Rosenberg is also the convening lead author of the oceans chapter of the Third US National Climate Assessment and served on the secretariat for the full assessment. He was a convening lead author of the first UN World Ocean Assessment. He served on the National Academy of Sciences’ Ocean Studies Board and the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy.

Dr. Rosenberg received his Ph.D. in biology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada and previously studied oceanography at Oregon State University and fisheries biology at the University of Massachusetts.

Gender Justice Movement, Abolition Movement, LGBTQ Movement

Nance Mariano (they/them) is a proud Chamoru person descending from the indigenous people form the Mariana Islands. They are an artist, engineer, and abolitionist technologist. They live in Seattle, Washington where they are deeply involved in the intersections of the local art scene and social justice. Nance is a seasoned leader who has served on community non-profit boards for the last several years. Their impact includes addressing Seattle’s housing crisis, defending the rights of transgender people, and addressing police violence through strategies utilizing care-based technology to respond to the crisis. They are a proud older sibling and superfan of their sister and brother and will own anyone at karaoke.

Reproductive Justice Movement, UnKoch/Anti-Corporation Movement, Legalize Cannabis Movement

Avital Norman Nathman (she/her) is a freelance writer and editor who has spent over 15 years spinning and weaving words into everything from website copy to public health documents, weekly columns for Snoop Dogg, press releases, and a variety of print and online articles for outlets like The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, VICE, and many more. A lot of her work revolves around reproductive justice and maternal health. Her first book, The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality, provides a platform for diverse voices that often get left out of the conversations surrounding parenting. She is currently working on her second book, The Perfect Birth Myth.

As a first generation Jewish American, Avital strongly believes in the power of not only finding your voice, but sharing it with the world, particularly when it comes to underrepresented and marginalized communities.