BLACK LIVES AND OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE

Jennifer is a Technology and Civil Liberties Fellow at the ACLU of Northern California, where she defends and promotes civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age, with a focus on work at the intersection of government surveillance, immigrants’ rights, and racial justice.

nash leads EFF's grassroots, student, and community organizing efforts. As the lead coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Alliance, nash works to support the Alliance's member organizations in educating their neighbors on digital-privacy best practices, and advocating for privacy and innovation protecting policy and legislation.

Organizer and coordinator working to build community-based power to dismantle police surveillance, spying and infiltration programs. The coalition utilizes multiple campaigns to advance an innovative organizing model that is LA-based but has implications regionally, nationally and internationally.

Senior campaign director for Mijente running campaigns to connect people across a wide network that servs as a hub for culture, learning, and advocacy. Jacinta formerly ran the Congreso de Jornaleros in New Orleans and most recently working with PODER in México, organizing the Río Sonora River Basin committees against water contamination by the mining industry to the work of the #Not1More campaign and Mijente.

Co-Founder and Executive Director with 20 years developing research, policy and campaign strategies to support deep and sustained organizing among the most marginalized and critical communities in California, including families facing displacement in San Francisco, farmworkers in the state's agricultural valleys, misclassified truck drivers at the Port of Los Angeles and, for the past 10 years, workers and communities affected by the massive warehousing and logistics sector of Inland Southern California.

One of the most well-known and well-regarded performance poets in the United States. Philip Glass commissioned Jerry as Librettist for a triptych of operatic melodramas they are writing together about the modern human condition. He will be previewing an excerpt from their first project, WHISTLEBLOWER, examining our changing relationship with privacy through the lens of Edward Snowden and his exile. It is being released early next year by Apple as a Virtual Reality project.