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MEET OUR NEW STAFF SQUAD!
Dear John,
Hey 2021: We are powering up with a growing team, and we are ready for you!
As we wrap up a MONUMENTAL YEAR [1]for movements and look ahead at the long
continued march towards liberation for all people, GGJ is thrilled to build
our team. Our shared vision for the future is one of deep belonging,
healing and justice. We are excited to expand our staff squad with four new
narrative weavers, resource mobilizers and visual poets who will bring to
life the vision, power and beauty of frontline voices and solutions. Please
join us in welcoming Rucha, Bridget, Kereknaan and Celina to the GGJ team!
BRIDGET BREHEN (SHE/HER): DIRECTOR OF RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
Bridget Brehen is GGJ’s Director of Resource Mobilization. She currently
lives in Ohlone Lisjan territories (Oakland) and comes to GGJ from the
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala/NISGUA, where she spent
15 years throwing down for grassroots internationalism, movement defense,
and organizing with Indigenous and campesino land, life, and water
defenders. Bridget spent the first decades of her life on the Mahican/Lenni
Lenape lands of the Hudson Valley, NY, and is an internationalist by choice
and by lineage, with family and ancestors rooted in Indonesia and the
Netherlands. She is tenacious about fundraising that is connected and
accountable to the grassroots, and fierce about moving resources so we can
win!
RUCHA CHITNIS (SHE/HER): DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Rucha Chitnis joins the team of GGJ as our very first director of
communications. She’s a photojournalist, an emerging AWARD-WINNING
FILMMAKER [2]and a narrative nerd committed to amplifying the wisdom and
solutions from frontline movements that are shattering the mythologies of
imperialistic baloney. Rucha is a fellow of the International Women’s
Media Foundation, a sporadic poet and an avid bird photographer. Over the
years, Rucha has consulted as a narrative and visual storytelling
strategist with progressive funders, grassroots organizations and
documentary film projects. She serves as a digital storytelling adviser for
VIKALP SANGAM [3], a movement and people-centered platform for alternatives
in India.
KEREKNAAN FIANNAAN (SHE/HER): RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZER
A migrant and third-culture kid originally from Nigeria, Kereknaan (KK)’s
global perspective was formed early in her life and has shaped her approach
to social justice to this day. Shortly after her time studying Sociology
and International Development in college, KK returned to Nigeria for a year
during which she did a service year at the National Commission for UNESCO
in Abuja. She has spent the past few years operationalizing fundraising
systems and building donor relationships at a nonprofit that supports
Rwanda’s first and only college for women. KK’s political education has
deepened over the years as she continues to see the desperate need for
decolonization and overall systemic solutions to structural violence. She
looks forward to building more relationships, moving people to action, and
growing politically with the GGJ community. When KK’s not working,
she’s often curating music, listening to an audiobook/podcast (she
particularly enjoys podcasts that debunk health and wellness myths),
designing clothes, or finding and cooking new recipes.
CELINA LEE (SHE/HER): COMMUNICATIONS ORGANIZER
Celina Lee is a communications specialist who works with grassroots groups
to build power in people of color, Indigenous, and low-income communities.
She grew her roots in the environmental justice movement as the
communications director at Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE).
Celina serves on the board of the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW),
a member-led organization that organizes for racial, social, and economic
justice. Previously, she worked for a corporate accountability group where
she helped organize a union to improve working conditions and confront
racism in the workplace. She also holds an art class for incarcerated
women, and in her spare time, likes to enjoy her spare time.
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GGJ IS HIRING A POLICY DIRECTOR!
As we celebrate movement wins, we know there is still much to be done to
build the world our people deserve, and we are ready to continue the fight.
Our communities have created platforms for policies that will lay the
groundwork for a ‘Just Transition to a Feminist Economy’, such as a
FEMINIST GREEN NEW DEAL [5], FEMINIST FOREIGN POLICY, [6] Medicare for All,
and so much more. We are inspired by the broad movements who are preparing
to govern, through policies that our movements are building, such as the
BREATHE Act and the THRIVE AGENDA. [7]
To deepen our ability to engage in key policy battles ahead, GGJ IS HIRING
FOR A NEW POLICY DIRECTOR POSITION to lead the creation, implementation and
operationalization of GGJ’s policy and civic engagement goals, to advance
our campaign work toward building an anti-racist, feminist, regenerative
economy at all levels of government (local, State, and federal). See the
full JOB DESCRIPTION HERE [4]. APPLICATIONS DUE: FRIDAY JANUARY 15, 2021.
START DATE PROJECTED FOR MARCH 2021.
Lastly, we are mobilizing resources as we build our dream team and continue
to strengthen our movement infrastructure. All donations to GGJ are tax
deductible; CLICK HERE [8] to make a one-time gift or become a monthly
sustainer.
WE RESIST TO LIVE, WE MARCH TO TRANSFORM!
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WASHINGTON, DC 20056
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