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 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, 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.

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, Feminist Foreign Policy, 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.

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. 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 to make a one-time gift or become a monthly sustainer.

We Resist to Live, We March to Transform!