Clio Schurtz | Albemarle/Charlottesville Organizer
Clio is the Albemarle/Charlottesville Organizer as of June 2024. She joined Virginia Organizing in June of 2023 as the New River Valley Organizer, and after a year of working in t ...
Read More »Elisabeth Chaves | Director of Research and Policy
Before beginning her current role as Research and Policy Director, Elisabeth previously served as Virginia Organizing’s Climate Equity Policy Fellow after becoming a member of the ...
Read More »Terran Young | Wise County Organizer
Terran became the Wise County Organizer in 2022. She spent her early childhood in Wise County, moved to Middletown, Ohio, and then returned home as a young adult after college. Sh ...
Read More »Glenda Crockett-Eans | Wythe County Organizer
Glenda grew up in Wytheville, where she and her family returned 17 years ago, and has worked as an elementary school teacher for 16 years. She went to college at North Carolina A ...
Read More »Eric Olson-Getty | Director of Programs
Eric Olson-Getty grew up in Vermont and came to Virginia via North Carolina in 2014. He moved to Harrisonburg when his wife got a new job, but arrived looking for opportunities to ...
Read More »Jorge Mendez | Organizing Co-Director
Jorge Mendez joined Virginia Organizing as the Fredericksburg Organizer in June of 2019, and became the Co-Director of Organizing in 2024. He grew up in El Salvador, where he bega ...
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Tony Jones | Suffolk Organizer
Tony Jones joined Virginia Organizing when the Portsmouth Chapter was just getting started. He became the Suffolk Organizer in April of 2018. A native of Portsmouth, Tony knows fi ...
Read More »Meghan McNamara | Organizing Co-Director
Meghan McNamara (they/them) is a community and labor organizer who joined Virginia Organizing in January 2016 and became the Co-Director of Organizing in 2024. Prior to joining th ...
Read More »Brian Johns | Executive Director
Brian Johns currently serves as the executive director of Virginia Organizing. He first came to Virginia Organizing as an intern in 2000 and then worked as a community organizer f ...
Read More »Sally Bastian | Grassroots Fundraising Coordinator
Sally Bastian began working with Virginia Organizing in 2006, as the Grassroots Fundraising Coordinator. In the past she has worked in education, housing, and in community develop ...
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