Shaira Chaer (She/They) is a multi-hyphenate creative born and raised in the Bronx. She received her B.S. in Human Services at CUNY City Tech in 2012, and went on to complete both an M.A. in Urban Studies and a certification in Public Policy and Administration from the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies in 2016. 

Miguel E. Andrade (He/Him) was born in Buga, Colombia, and is a queer immigrant communications strategist and freelancer based out of Philadelphia, PA. His work has been featured on platforms like Democracy Now!, The New York Times, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Al Punto con Jorge Ramos. Getting his start in Philadelphia's Latinx-Immigrant community through activism at 17 in 2008, Miguel swiftly emerged as a premier advocate for immigrant rights in the region.

Jess is a lesbian femme-identified white trans woman & communications strategist who lives and loves in Greensboro, North Carolina. She comes out of LGBTQ liberation, racial justice, and prison industrial complex abolitionist movements in the US South. She does this work out of a belief that communications and narrative strategy, alongside the organizing work that transforms people, as well as systems, is key to winning the battle for political imagination and experiencing freedom, real safety, and dignity for everyone in our towns, cities, and world we call home.

ReFrame Strategist Dulce Rojas is a Sagittarius cancer survivor who has dedicated the last decade to work toward justice and liberation through the lens of grassroots organizing, communications strategies, and scheming ways to build political power for Latino, immigrant, and working peoples.

Kay Cuajunco (She/Her) is passionate about amplifying stories that center resilience and self-determination. With more than a decade of experience as an organizer, filmmaker, and communications strategist, she has worked with frontline organizers and statewide alliances across movements for racial, economic, educational, and environmental justice. Kay is currently Communications Director of Strategy at Change Consulting where she specializes in narrative strategy, messaging and strategy development, coaching and training. In her free time, she loves swimming and riding her bike all over Oakland.

Chris Rylee (He/They) is the director of communications for the Pacific Crest Trail Association and my career prior came from labor and faith-based racial justice. He has done everything from specialist work to consulting and now department building. Chris' highlights are the highly successful professionals who he have mentored and coached up over the years.

Nina Smith, (She/Her) is a battle-tested communications strategist and storyteller with more than seventeen years of experience in politics and communications. Smith soft launched PoliSol in April 2020, quickly amassing a rolodex of impressive clients. The firm supported Stacey Abrams and the Fair Fight team during the 2020 and 2022 elections. She led media strategy for the introduction of the BREATHE Act for the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). The firm also worked to tell the stories of grassroots organizing during the 2020 election cycle including the Joy to the Polls roving concerts, working with Vote.org to launch youth voting programs featuring Jaden Smith, and worked with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on key battleground races during the 2020 cycle.