Luis Torres

Luis Torres

Luis Torres serves as president of Rochester’s Metro Justice. He is also the coordinator for Social Justice at First Unitarian Church and a stay at home dad for Maya, Mateo and Noah. He is driven by a commitment for worker movements in rural and urban upstate...
Isaac Silberman-Gorn

Isaac Silberman-Gorn

Isaac has been organizing against fracking for over 4 years, first as a student, and over 2 with Citizen Action of New York. He lives in Binghamton – a unique community, both on the front lines for climate change and in the bullseye of the gas industry. When not...
Karen Scharff

Karen Scharff

Karen Scharff is the Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, a statewide grassroots organization that empowers New Yorkers to fight for social, economic and racial justice, with a focus on policy change at the state level.Citizen Action of New York, the New...
Fareed Michelen

Fareed Michelen

Fareed Michelen is the Director of Constituency Groups for the NYS AFL-CIO. He has worked there for the past 5 years building and maintaining relationships between Labor unions, allied groups, and community organizations. Before joining the AFL he was an organizer...
Tracy Givens-Hunter

Tracy Givens-Hunter

As a champion of civil liberties and humans’ rights, Tracy has served on the Lower Hudson Valley American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) since 2009, on the executive staff of the Southern Dutchess NAACP and Neighbor Team Lead of Obama For American during 2008...