Jennifer S. Coken
Executive Director, Main Street Colorado (an Education Fund in Colorado); prior to that she served as the Political Director for Congresswoman Diana DeGette leading her re-election campaign with an historic win of 73%. Before moving to the state of Colorado in 2004, Coken was a field associate with FieldWorks, coordinating 28 state house and senate canvass operations for the democratic caucuses in the state of Virginia. Jennifer also served as the National Campaign Director for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), leading a coalition of nearly 400 organizations to influence Congress to recommend the largest budget increase in National Park Service history. Jennifer founded Coken Consulting Company in 1997, a Washington, DC firm providing campaign management services and strategic guidance for national and community-based organizations. Jennifer grew up in Cleveland and received her MA in Political Campaign Management from Kent State University.

Michael Cook
Michael Cook is a veteran of more than 25 political campaigns at the local, state and federal level. During his tenure as Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Arkansas he helped revitalize and re-organize the state party. His work there earned him recognition by the National Journal's "Hotline" as one of Arkansas' Rising Stars in 2003, and the Arkansas Times proclaimed him the "Wizard of Voter Turnout" during the hotly contested 2004 campaign season. He is the only Arkansas Executive Director who has simultaneously served as Coordinated Campaign Director, overseeing the Democrats' most intensive field operation ever in a presidential election year. He was a member of then-Governor Clinton's campaign staff during the 1992 presidential race, serving both in New Hampshire and at the fabled Little Rock headquarters. Michael previously served as consultant with Southern Strategy Group, a political and governmental consulting firm in Little Rock. In 2006, he managed the first winning Democratic campaign for Arkansas Lt. Governor in sixteen years. Michael is a veteran of the United States Army Reserves and holds a bachelor's degree in History from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He currently serves as the Chief of Staff for Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter.

Dorie Clark
Principal, Clark Strategic Communications. Dorie is a media consultant with extensive campaign and non-profit experience at the national, state, and local levels. Clark served as the New Hampshire Communications Director for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, developing and executing his media strategy in the state and managing relations with local and national press. Previously, she was the Press Secretary for former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s campaign for Massachusetts governor. Clark also ran the successful re-election campaign for Massachusetts State Representative Jarrett Barrios (now a State Senator), and has served as a media consultant on a wide variety of races. Prior to her work as a campaign communications specialist, Clark was a staff writer for the Boston Phoenix, covering local politics and policy and winning two New England Press Association awards. She was also a regular contributor to the Boston Globe and Commonwealth magazine. She also co-founded a political action committee, OutSomerville, and won an award for GLBT advocacy from the Young Democrats of Massachusetts. Clark has taught campaign management at Emerson College and media studies at Tufts University. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College and Harvard Divinity School. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Kendra-Sue Derby
Over her career, Kendra-Sue Derby has fought for progressive causes and candidates. She focuses her work on administrative and field activities. Most recently she was Senior Consultant to the Jon Tester for Senate and Montana Democratic Party. She also worked at Alliance for Justice from 2001 through 2006 as the Director of Field Operations. She trained thousands of activists and campaign employees when she worked for The Ron Brown - Paul Tully Institute for Political Action and as an independent contractor. Kendra has worked on campaigns of all sizes, ranging from City Council to Presidential, including the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Democratic presidential campaigns. In 2004 she ran the Democratic Party of Oregon’s coordinated campaign. Kendra currently resides in Denver.

Maya Enista
Chief Operating Officer for Mobilizing America's Youth. Maya has been active in public service, focusing mainly on voter empowerment and youth civic engagement, throughout her years in college. She began her career at 17 years old as the East Coast Coordinator for Rock The Vote. She continued her work as the National Field Director for the Hip Hop Civic Engagement Project. In addition to her Voter Empowerment work, Maya has worked with The Center for Civic Responsibility as an Empowerment Civics Coordinator, facilitating trainings for local New Jersey residents. Maya grew up in Maplewood New Jersey and attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

Carrie Giddins
Carrie Giddins served as the communications director for the Iowa Democratic Party for the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, helping run the most successful and most widely attended caucuses in history. A native of New York City, Giddins has worked in politics for over a decade. Before her year in Iowa, Giddins was the deputy communications director for EMILY’s List, a political action committee helping to elect democratic women. In 2004, she was the deputy communications director for John Kerry’s presidential campaign in Iowa. In 2002, Giddins worked at political direct mail in San Francisco, also doing general consulting for local and statewide California candidates. Giddins was the program manager for the League of Conservation Voters, running the GOTV effort in 42 states in the 2000 election. Just this year, Giddins launched Giddy Up! Communications a political communications consulting firm. In February 2008, she was named the political operative to watch by Politico.

Scott Goodstein
Scott Goodstein spent the last twelve years managing political campaigns and building progressive coalitions. After working for several members of Congress, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, Goodstein founded Catalyst Campaigns (www.catalystcampaigns.com). A master at mixing online and offline organizing tools with culture, music, politics and messaging- Goodstein knows how to build sustainable niche based organizations from the ground up including: Punkvoter.com, Rock Against Bush, MilitaryFreeZone.org, Save CBGB, and Operation Ceasefire. Goodstein received both a BA and an MPA from The American University School of Public Affairs.

Ellery Gould
A campaign veteran before he finished college, Ellery has experience at virtually every level of politics and in every region of the country; from mayroal aide to congressional communications director, Georgia to Arizona. A Tennessee native, Ellery most recently brought his talents for winning "red states" to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee where he oversaw media campaigns for some of the toughest races in the nation and helped bring a Democratic majority to Congress for the first time since 1994.

Lewis Granofsky
Lew kicked off his political career recruiting for the DNC Training Academy in 1995. In 1996, he worked alongside future FieldWorks partner Laurie Moskowitz and successfully coordinated a statewide initiative drive in Michigan, generating over 40,000 signatures from all 83 counties to place Senator Carl Levin on the ballot. In 1997, he began working with the Fund for Public Interest Research, one of the country's largest canvass networks. As a canvass director, Lewis continuously broke recruitment and fundraising records, including running the most successful canvass in the organization's 20 year history. While overseeing his fundraising canvasses, Lewis also managed many of the Fund for Public Interest Research's non-fundraising outreach projects. Lewis reunited with Laurie, his mentor, and came to work with FieldWorks as a vice-president in May 2005.

Arshad Hasan
Executive Director, Democracy for America; Arshad joined Democracy for America in early 2005 to develop and direct the DFA Training Academy. Before joining DFA, Arshad worked with MoveOn PAC during the 2004 Elections. Previous to his electoral experience, Arshad based his professional political career in environmental issue advocacy and organizing. His non-electoral experience includes work on legislative issue campaigns, corporate accountability campaigns, and grassroots fundraising. Arshad traces his Dean roots to February of 2003 when he founded one of the nation's first organized Dean groups, Philly For Dean. Whenever possible, Arshad likes to take off from DFA and work on campaigns with staffers he’s trained. In the 2006 general election, Arshad worked as the GOTV Director for Jerry McNerney for Congress. Arshad was born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota and went to college at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lauree Hayden
Lauree Hayden works with the political shop of SEIU International. For the last year and a half, she served as the Political Director of SEIU Local 21 LA, the union for public service workers in Louisiana. She worked to set up a political program and help navigate the new local through the post-Katrina political waters. She began organizing around environmental justice issues before becoming active in Democratic electoral politics in Massachusetts. She served as an Associate at the public relations and political consulting firm of Hattaway Communications. She served as Howard Dean's Congressional District Director in New Hampshire and later on staff at America Coming Together (ACT). She came to labor with a focus on the South/Southwest region because she believes that building a strong labor movement in the region is critical to changing relations of power on the ground and building real and lasting change for working people in America.