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Jim Becklund
Our Vision of the Climate Crisis: Past, Present and Future
Jim Becklund is a member of the Green Party of Michigan and is a co-chair of the forming Green Party Elders Caucus. At the age of 73 Jim is very active and promoting Green values.
Chris Blankenhorn
Grassroots Local Organizing
Ecosocialist Organizing for a Green Future
Chris Blankenhorn (he/him): Chris Blankenhorn is a former educator and political organizer based out of Springfield, IL. He has been involved in the Green Party for over a decade and has served as a GPUS Co-Chair, Illinois Green Party Secretary, and was the Social Media and Tech Director for the Hawkins/Walker campaign in 2020.
Chris also organizes the education working group of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which was formed following the 2020 presidential campaign to continue the ecosocialist organizing work carried out during the election.
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
From Segregated Streets to Sustainable Solutions: Environmental Justice Through Local Activism
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo received her A.B. degree from Barnard College/Columbia University and her doctorate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Maryland 30 years ago to assume a professorial position at the American University.
Dr. Coleman-Adebayo is the author of the Pulitzer-nominated book: NO FEAR: A Whistleblower’s Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA.
Photo by Courtney Apple. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22091798
Asheemo Nefertiti Daily – "Koda"
2024 Candidate Forum: State Level Candidates
My name is Asheemo Nefertiti Daily. I'm 21 years young and running for State of Hawai'i Representative, District #48.
I am Castle High School Alumni and a member of the Green Party.
The intention is to Uplift and Empower our Youth to take responsible action towards the Golden future of Hawai'i that we want to see manifest.
Aloha ʻĀina—let us return the people to the land.mahalo nui,
Koda
Asheemo Nefertiti Dail
Barbara Dahlgren
Barbara Dahlgren, M.A., currently co-chair of the Greater Milwaukee Green Party has also served the Wisconsin Green Party as Co-chair, Secretary, and Elections Committee Chair.
She has worked on ballot access in Illinois and Wisconsin since 2010. She continues to be an elected delegate of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress.
Anna Lee Dillon
Anna Lee Dillon, North Carolina Green Party cochair and delegate to the GPUS NC, has been a Green Party supporter since her father ran for Governor of Mississippi in 2003. She performs bluegrass and folk music with her family band and has toured with her father, Sherman Lee Dillon, singing blues and R&B.
She enjoys parenting her 3 children and organizing with fellow revolutionaries for peace and liberation for all people!
Andy Ellis
2024 Candidate Forum: State Level Candidates
I have supported the Green Party in many elections, but I became actively involved in 2015. Since then I have been a candidate for state delegate, a Co-chair of the Maryland Green Party and the Baltimore City Green Party.
I have worked on several Green Party campaigns, served on national committees, and traveled around the state and region to help support local independent political organizing.
Eddie Espinoza
2024 Candidate Forum: State Level Candidates
Eddie Espinoza is not a politician, he’s a problem solver. At age 19 he enlisted in the US Army and was given the responsibility of driving a Bradley fighting vehicle into battle. He earned a combat infantry badge for his service during Desert Storm.
After graduating from college, he taught in Texas Public Schools for 26 years, helping thousands of students develop basic reading and math skills.
His experiences as a teacher inspired him to become an advocate for young people, working class families, and the environment. As a climate activist, Eddie strives to work both outside and inside the system.
He is the only candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner calling for fossil fuel corporations and oil and gas workers to transition away from extraction, transport, and burning of fossil fuels.
Eddie wants the fossil fuel industry to begin plugging, cleaning, and decommissioning ALL contaminating oil and gas wells throughout the state, and also help the state transition to 100% renewable energy and utility-scale batteries, or as close to 100% as we possibly can.
He is the only candidate in this important environmental race calling for a ban on fracking, a ban on exporting LNG from the Texas Gulf Coast, and an immediate end to new fossil fuel projects and infrastructure.
Philena Farley
From Segregated Streets to Sustainable Solutions: Environmental Justice Through Local Activism
As a dedicated member of the Green Party for over a decade, I have had the privilege of working on numerous campaigns and supporting candidates at the local, state, and national levels. My expertise in web account maintenance, problem-solving, and trouble-shooting has been instrumental in helping candidates and campaigns establish a strong online presence and navigate technical issues.
In addition to my technical skills, I have a passion for graphic arts and logo creation, and have designed visual materials for various Green Party campaigns and initiatives. I am also an experienced trainer, able to explain complex computer workflows in plain English and empower others to take on technical tasks with confidence.
My experience in organizing complex projects, defining project priorities, and delegating tasks has been essential in building strong campaigns and supporting party growth. I am committed to the Green Party's values of grassroots democracy, social justice, and environmental sustainability, and am excited to share my skills and experience with others to help build a more just and equitable society.
Mike Feinstein
Electoral Reforms for an Inclusive Multi-Party Democracy
Mike Feinstein is a co-founder of the Green Party of California, a former co-chair of the Green Party US (GPUS) and a former Green Mayor and City Councilmember in Santa Monica, California.
Since 1994 Feinstein has tracked and maintained the list of Greens running for public office across the United States. Today he does that work as Manager of the GPUS Elections Data Base and an advisor to the GPUS Coordinated Campaign Committee.
Kalia J Fitzgerald
she/her/hers
Kalia Fitzgerald is the 4th of 5 children of a politician and an evangelist. Being a community minded person is a gift she inherited naturally. Most of her days were spent either in church or campaigning. Growing up, she worked on many campaigns and registered many people to vote before she was even old enough to vote herself.
She has been affiliated with the Green Party since 2016, finally becoming an official of the NC Green Party in 2022. Since then, she has become the Membership Chair and continues to do the good work of educating people about the political system and the importance of voting.
Asa Gordon
Proposals for Strategic Protest Tactics of illegal Israeli Settlements
Asa Gordon is Chair DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force; Executive Director, Douglass Institute of Government; Secretary General, Sons & Daughters United States Colored Troops; Research Historian & Consulting Curator, AACWMM.
He is a retired NASA Astrodynamist.
Margery Kay (M.K.) Hanson
Nevada Green Party Co-chair,
Organizer, Delegate and Elector.
Also known on Twitter as @TurboKitty.
Howie Hawkins
Electoral Reforms for an Inclusive Multi-Party Democracy
Ecosocialist Organizing for a Green Future
Howie Hawkins has been active in movements for civil rights, peace, labor, and the environment since the 1960s. He was the Green Party's 2020 presidential candidate.
Haig Hovaness
Conflict with China: Marching to Disaster
Haig Hovaness is a peace activist with a professional background in information technology. He is the Co-Chair of the Peace Action Committee of the Green Party of the United States.
He has written and presented on a variety of defense-related technology issues. He holds an MBA from New York University.
Rita Jacobs
Cracking the Class Ceiling and Escaping the Debt Trap
Rita Jacobs is a retired probate lawyer from Lansing, Michigan. She has devoted her retirement years to learning about current events and issues, as well as the history behind them. She is a life-long anti-war activist, and served two years as Co-chair of the Peace Action Committee.
She is a founding member and Co-chair of the Banking and Monetary Reform Committee, and has spent several years learning about the importance of a monetary system and its role in shaping public policy and controlling the government, as well as the importance of having a different and better system.
She joined the Green Party in 2015, has served in several officer positions of the Green Party of Michigan and the local Capitol Area Greens. She has been a Michigan delegate on the National Committee for the last six years.
Emily Kawano
Solidarity Economy: A Practical Way to Advance Green Party Values
Emily Kawano is co-director of the Wellspring Cooperative, a network of worker-owned, inner-city cooperative businesses in Springfield, Massachusetts that provides job training and entry-level jobs to unemployed and underemployed residents. She is also co-coordinator of the US Solidarity Economy Network.
An economist by training, Kawano served as the director of the Center for Popular Economics from 2004 to 2013. Before that, she taught at Smith College, worked as the National Economic Justice Representative for the American Friends Service Committee and, in Northern Ireland, founded a popular economics program with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
Terry Lodge
Keeping Free Speech Free, Know Your Rights
Terry Lodge is the legal director for CELDF, (the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund).
Terry has 42 years of experience as an antiwar activist and civil and environmental rights litigator, bringing challenges in support of direct democracy, Community Rights, and the Rights of Nature in Ohio. He also supports efforts to resist the spread of nuclear power, weapons and waste nationwide and provides criminal and civil law representation to environmental and civil rights protesters. He supports the return to democratic roots in order to resist climate chaos and to create a truly equitable society. Terry lives on Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) traditional lands, from whence he counsels activists to walk with the power of a thousand generations.
Daniel Lugassy
Danny is an emergency medicine physician currently practicing in NYC and has been a long time single-payer advocate starting in 2001 while in medical school at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, where he founded the first student chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). He has worked for 20 years in some of the busiest emergency departments in Baltimore & NYC and constantly bears witness to the harsh realities and cruelty of our corporate for-profit healthcare system.
He can be found in the streets, the halls of Congress, NY state capitol building, community centers, hospital lecture halls and many other places advocating for universal healthcare justice and reform. He helped lead the “Healthcare for the 99%” a working group within the NYC Occupy Wall Street movement and has served on the Board of Directors of the NY-Metro Chapter of PNHP for the last decade. He joined the Green Party in 2012 and considers establishing a Single-payer/Medicare for All system in the US not only a personal goal, but a professional obligation to every patient he cares for in the emergency department.
Rita Maniotis
Rita Maniotis has worked in the Green Party since 2006. She ran for state representative in Illinois in 2008 and ran for school board twice in the notorious Berwyn-Cicero School District.
Rita also served the Illinois Green Party as Secretary, Assistant Treasurer, and was Chair of the Cook County Green Party as well as Berwyn Township Committeeman. She joined the Wisconsin Green Party in spring of 2023.
Gloria Mattera
Gloria Mattera has been a member of the Green Party since 2001. Coming to the Green Party through the Nader campaign, Gloria has been involved in building a left, political independent movement since the mid 90's as a leader in the Labor Party New York Metro Chapter. She has served as a coordinating member of System Change Not Climate Change and is a founding member of Left Elect.
Working in the New York City public hospital system over the years, Gloria experienced firsthand how unjust and inhumane this country's healthcare system is and got involved in the single-payer healthcare movement. She has been a board member of the Physicians for a National Health Program NY Metro Chapter for many years. Gloria soon realized that the two corporate parties in power would never bring a national health program to the U.S. and turned toward independent political party building, initially as a founding member of the Labor Party under Tony Mazzocchi, then NYC coordinator of Labor for Nader in 2000, and finally the Green Party.
Gloria is currently a co-chair of the Green Party of New York and a delegate to the National Committee.
Caledon Myers
Laboratories of Democracy: Enabling Multiparty Representation in State Legislatures
Caledon Myers is the founder and Executive Director of ProRep Coalition. He cares deeply about improving our democracy.
Tony Ndege
Tony Ndege is the Co-chair of the Ballot Access Committee. He is a veteran activist and organizer at the state and national levels. He has served as Steering Committee Co-chair for three terms and also served as Co-chair of North Carolina Green Party.
Tony has organized from the local to international level for social justice, Palestine liberation, labor justice, the rights of immigrants and the undocumented, against war and military intervention, against the US embargo on Cuba, and against water contamination from coal ash and pollution. He has worked as a lead organizer for a wide range of major movements and events locally and nationally: from organizing #BlackLivesMatter events to Occupy Wall Street, from co-organizing the largest protests against Duke Energy (one of the largest polluters in the nation), to uplifting the demand to make energy publicly owned, and from organizing protests and events standing up to Bank of America and Wells Fargo's criminal malfeasance to the largest statewide and national actions against the second Iraq War.
Sue Peters
Cracking the Class Ceiling and Escaping the Debt Trap
Sue Peters has degrees in History and Education and was an information technologist in finance systems for 35 years. The last 15 years of her career was at a multinational Wall Street bank, where she discovered how commercial banks create the deposits of their borrowers.
Peters has an insider’s knowledge of the relationship between Wall Street and money. She gave a public in-depth class on the book, The Lost Science of Money, by Stephen Zarlenga; the extensive class materials can be viewed from the HISTORY tab on the BMRC website, GreensForMonetaryReform.org.
She is a member of The American Monetary Institute (AMI), Green Party of New York, National Organization for Raw Materials (NORM), and is an activist in her local community of the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
AJ Reed
What's the Matter with the United States?: A Review on the emerging fascism in the united states
AJ Reed has been an organizer for over 25 years, where their antifascist work began in rural Illinois fighting back against white supremacists and neo-Nazis. As an organizer they have brought their work into the classroom through their courses in political science, cultural studies, and geography.
Anita Rios
Keeping Free Speech Free, Know Your Rights
Anita Rios is a longtime Green Party activist and former co-chair of the National Committee of the Green Party of the US, of the Ohio Green Party, and of the Latinx Caucus.
She is one of the co-founders of the Latinx Caucus and of the Diversity Committee.
Rob Richie
Electoral Reforms for an Inclusive Multi-Party Democracy
Rob Richie has been the nation's leading advocate and organizer for ranked choice voting, proportional representation, and other pro-democracy reforms since he co-founded FairVote in 1992.
Lynne Serpe
Electoral Reforms for an Inclusive Multi-Party Democracy
Lynne Serpe (she/her) is a political educator, organizer and campaign consultant. A Green Party member since 1994, she has worked on winning electoral and electoral reform campaigns throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She has been a Senior Analyst with FairVote and Deputy Director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation.
She coordinated the successful Oakland RCV campaign in 2006, was the Ohio Recount Manager on behalf of the Green presidential candidate in 2004, and worked for the New Zealand Parliament from 2001-2003 as their Single Transferable Voting (STV) Coordinator.
Ryan Swan
Conflict with China: Marching to Disaster
Ryan Swan is a Fellow at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies and a Gerda Henkel Doctoral Scholar in Political Science at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen. His research focuses on the effects of arms competition on deterrence dynamics.
He holds a M.Phil. in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall), a J.D. from the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law and a B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley.
Howard Switzer
Cracking the Class Ceiling and Escaping the Debt Trap
Howard Switzer is a Tennessee architect and ecological design consultant on energy efficient, healthy homes of natural materials and on pre-industrial building methods, a founding member of The Nashville Peace and Justice Center, ran for Governor of Tennessee twice and for Congress once.
He co-founded the “Moving the Money to Main Street Campaign” adopted by the Green Party US in 2007. He is driven by his belief that monetary reform is critical to democracy and for funding a transition to a Green Economy. He has presented at many Annual National Meetings, meetings of the American Monetary Institute and Alliance for Just Money. He is a founding member of the Green Party of Tennessee, the Green Party of the United States, and the Banking and Monetary Reform Committee of GPUS.
Robin Lee Vargas
2024 Candidate Forum: State Level Candidates
Robin Lee Vargas is the Green Party candidate for Texas State Senate District 27! Having won the Green Party nomination, Robin will appear on the general election ballot on November 5, 2024.
An RGV native, Robin is a lifelong resident of Alamo, Texas. Robin’s small business handles landscaping and caretaking at the Unitarian Universal fellowship of Hidalgo County Texas in San Juan, where she also serves on the leadership team as parliamentarian. A community activist, Robin has spent years working to address issues like climate change, mass incarceration, unjust immigration policies, and more. A skilled artist, Robin makes beautiful signs for the community to use at protests.
Robin hosts a monthly community potluck which is free and open to all.
After seeing local politics fail to address the needs of the community due to a government run by and for the rich, Robin is running for office with the Green Party to give voters the choice of an activist working-class candidate who only takes contributions from individual donors, and who will work to provide clear policy solutions to the climate crisis, immigration, incarceration, and drug policies that Democrat and Republican parties refuse to address as corporate parties.
Robin’s dedication to ecology and the environment includes work with the Environmental Awareness Club at UTRGV. In her spare time she learns about medicinal plants for healing the body and mind. With this strong connection to nature, Robin is inspired by the Green Party’s commitment to protecting the environment and providing real policy solutions for climate change.
Robin advocates for Green policies that will tackle these issues such as:
o Ending the fossil fuel industry/Banning LNG export terminals
o Investing in renewable energy
o Human-centered city planning with walkable downtowns and green spaces
o A just immigration policy and demilitarization of the border
o Ending mass incarceration
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