USAction Team

Senior Staff

Jeff Blum, Executive Director

Alan Charney, Program Director

Jennifer Coken, Development Director

Steve Mele, Finance Director

Patty Snee, National Field Director

National Staff

Brenda Barron Regional Field Director

Stephanie Briggs, Administrative Assistant

Beatrice Dermer, Senior Development Manager

Emma Einhorn, Field Associate

Barbara Helmick, Deputy Program Director

Brittany Larson, Associate

National Staff

Carin Schiewe, Regional Field Director

Shelley Sherman, Finance Operations Manager

Ross Wallen, Program Manager for Digital Organizing and Outreach

Cynthia Ward Wikstrom, Campaign Director

Sarah Chaisson Warner, Regional Field Director

USAction Board 

Khalid Pitts, President
Director of Strategic Campaigns, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Jesse Graham, Vice President
Executive Director, Maine People’s Alliance

Marvin Randolph, Treasurer
Senior Vice President for Campaigns, NAACP

Board Members

Heather Booth
Midwest Academy Board Chair

Lynda Delaforgue 
Citizen Action/Illinois Co-Director

Linda Honold
Grassroots Leader

Elbridge James
Progressive Maryland Board Chair

Richard Kirsch
Roosevelt Institute Fellow

Deana Knutsen
Washington Community Action Network Board Chair

Mike Lux
Progressive Strategies CEO

Duane Peterson
SunCommon President

Will Pittz
Washington Community Action Network Executive Director

Brian Rothenberg
Progress Ohio Executive Director

Phyllis Salowe-Kaye
New Jersey Citizen Action Executive Director

Karen Scharff
Citizen Action of New York Executive Director

Lonnie Thompson
Florida Consumer Action Network Board Chair

Ron Williams
Oregon Action Executive Director