Sara El-Amine

Head of Public Engagement, Lyft
Former Executive Director, Obama’s Organizing For Action

Sara El-Amine PhD (hc) is a progressive senior strategist who was one of the architects of the Obama grassroots movement, playing key roles outside the US White House to pass and implement healthcare reform, minimum wage, marriage equality, gun violence prevention, climate protections, and more during President Obama’s two terms in office. Post-Obama administration, she founded the Change.org Global Foundation and went on to build the advocacy arm of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s new social impact effort, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

She is currently Head of Public Engagement at Lyft. She is proudly Lebanese-American and Muslim-American, and was raised in the US, Spain, and Lebanon. Sara is the mom of a 3 year old, and lives in Oakland, CA with her Community Organizer husband, where they throw frequent theme parties of historic proportions in their spare time.

Ari Trujillo-John

Co-founder, OpenField
Former Field & Data Director, Bernie Campaign

Ari Trujillo-Wesler (she / they) is the Co-Founder and CEO of OpenField. With nearly 20 years of experience to her credit, she is a nationally recognized field director and engineer. She has been the National Director of Grassroots Power Building at the Sierra Club, Deputy National Data Director for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, and Director of Data + Engineering for Wellstone Action, among others before co-founding OpenField. An alumni of the University of Texas at Austin, Ari is a non-binary, Afro-Xicana who hails from the East Side of San Jose.

Clayton Thomas-Müller

Senior Campaigner, 350.org
Best-selling author on Indigenous rights & environmental justice

Clayton Thomas-Müller is a member of the Treaty #6 based Mathias Colomb Cree Nation (also known as Pukatawagan located in Northern Manitoba, Canada). Based in Winnipeg, Clayton is a senior campaign specialist with 350.org.

Clayton is a campaigner, award winning film director, media producer, organizer, facilitator, public speaker, and best selling author on Indigenous rights and environmental & economic justice.

He has been recognized by Yes Magazine as a Climate Hero and is featured as one of ten international human rights defenders in the National Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He has campaigned across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states organizing in hundreds of First Nations, Alaska Native and Native American communities to support Indigenous Peoples to defend their territories against the encroachment of the fossil fuel industry with a special focus on stopping the expansion of the Canadian tar sands and its associated pipelines.

Clayton is involved in many initiatives to support the building of an inclusive global movement for energy and climate justice. He serves on the board of the Bioneers and the Wildfire Project.

Clarke Humphrey

Former Digital Director, White House COVID-19 Response Team
Former Online Fundraising Director, Democratic National Committee

Clarke Humphrey most recently worked as Digital Director for the COVID-19 Response Team at the Biden White House, where she drove the online effort that resulted in more than 186 million Americans getting fully vaccinated against the virus.

Prior to that, she served as Deputy Digital Director on the Biden-Harris Campaign overseeing the grassroots fundraising operation and raising more money online than any campaign in American history.

Clarke was previously the Democratic National Committee’s Online Fundraising Director, where she oversaw the email, SMS, and digital ads programs and modernized much of the committee’s grassroots fundraising infrastructure. She also spent some time focused on list acquisition and growth at a digital ads firm and worked as the North Carolina Digital Director on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016.

Originally from Boston, Clarke graduated from Northwestern University, where she studied journalism and developed a love for Chicago deep dish pizza. She lives in Washington, DC where she spends her free time eating Ethiopian food, taking long walks on the mall, and catching the occasional show at the Anthem or Capital One Arena.

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman

Outgoing President, New Media Ventures
Founder, SumOfUs

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman is the former President of New Media Ventures (NMV), the nonprofit VC firm whose early investments were pivotal for progressive political startups including Blavity, ActBlue Civics, Vote.org, and PushBlack. She is also the founder and former Executive Director of global consumer watchdog SumOfUs.

She currently serves as Senior Advisor at NMV and runs a consulting practice focused on digital and political innovation. Taren’s career has spanned Democratic politics, social impact tech, the climate and labor movements, working for groups like MoveOn.org, the Alliance for Climate Protection, Change.org, and the AFL-CIO. Taren lives in San Francisco with her two preschoolers, where she plays a lot of pickleball and is working on a science fiction novel.

LaToia Jones

LaToia Jones is SVP of Government Affairs & Political Partners at Hustle.

LaToia A. Jones is an organizer, community activist, and national strategist. LaToia currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs & Political Partners at Hustle a progressive digital peer-to-peer communications company. In her role, she’s responsible for developing and implementing strategies that enhance Hustles’ image, influence, and engagement in the Labor, Political, and Legislative space.

With over 20 years of extensive experience in labor and community organizing and political experience in presidential campaigns, gubernatorial races, and countless congressional and local races — LaToia’s purpose and drive have always been to be the most effective public servant possible. Affectionately known as the “Queen Maker”, LaToia thrives on supporting and building the next generation of leaders particularly women and women of color.

LaToia began her career in servant leadership as a member of the College & Young Democrats of Georgia. She would later become the first African American female executive director of the College Democrats of America. LaToia has served as the Associate Director of Human Rights and Community Relations, at the country’s largest professional union, the American Federation of Teachers. In addition, LaToia has built community programs that have positively impacted the lives of millions of people.

LaToia continued to be an active participant in ensuring America’s promise — serving in key roles in 2008, 2012, and 2016 Democratic National Conventions. Presently, she is a Truman National Security Partner and currently serves on the boards of Power Rising, Higher Heights for America, EMERGE America.

Jack Milroy

Managing Director, Defiance

Jack has spent a decade and a half building and scaling campaigns using technology. He has worked on elections and advocacy campaigns in Canada and Australia, developing a people first approach to campaigns, organizing and fundraising.

Jack has worked as a strategist at leading progressive organizations in Australia and Canada: Leadnow.ca, the Australian Labor Party, Vision Vancouver, the NDP, CUPE, and the International Association of Fire Fighters.

In 2017 Jack founded Defiance to help unions & progressives to raise money and build power online. Jack is also the Founding Producer of Activate: Digital Leadership Conference at Hollyhock.

He lives in Tasmania, Australia.