 Pete Tepley, Co-Chair
A native of Louisiana, Pete is a private attorney in Birmingham. He was formerly a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, where he specialized in lawsuits against the Ku Klux Klan. |
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 Nicole Porter, Co-Chair
State Advocacy Coordinator for the Sentencing Project in Washington, DC, Nicole is the former director of the ACLU's Prison & Jail Accountability Project (PJAP). PJAP's mission was to monitor the conditions of confinement in Texas jails and prisons. |
 Jacob Flowers
Finance Committee Chair
Jacob is a native of Shelby County, Tennessee, and the Executive Director of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center in Memphis. Jacob worked with Grassroots Leadership in the campaign against privatization and expansion of the Shelby County Jail and Penal Farm. |
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 Sara Evans
Program Committee Chair
Sara was born in 1943 in a South Carolina Methodist parsonage. Sara was active in the civil rights and anti-war movements while a student at Duke University in 1962-66. She has built her career as a feminist historian at the University of Minnesota since 1976. Her books include Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left and Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End. |
 Leslie Hill
Personnel Committee Chair
Leslie is Associate Professor on the Politics Department faculty at Bates College where she offers courses in African Politics, Women, Gender, and Politics, and African American Studies. She currently works as Special Assistant to the President to advance inclusion of people of color and underrepresented groups in Bates' academic program, and on its student, staff, and facultly bodies. She brought experience working in Southern communities for The Youth Project, in electoral campaigns, and anti-apartheid solidarity organizing to her work on Grassroots Leadership's Board of Directors. |
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 Cay’me Jones
Cay’me Jones is a young entrepeneur who runs her own business, TJG Business Group, in North Carolina, which contracts for training and seminar services. Fluent in Spanish and American Sign Language, Cay’me has worked with urban youth, Division of Services for the Blind, academic, for-profit and non-profit organizations.
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 Millard “Mitty” Owens
Mitty has served on a number of boards linking social and economic justice and has worked in community economic development for the Ford Foundation, New York City government, the Center for Community Self-Help in North Carolina, the Overseas Development Network in Zimbabwe, and New York University. He was a W.K. Kellogg National Fellow, with a focus on culture and social change. |
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 Megan Quattlebaum
Megan is a graduate of the Yale Law School, now working with Attorney and Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellow at the Neighborhood Legal Services Association in Pittsburgh, PA. Starting in September 2011, Megan will be working as a law clerk to Judge Julio Fuentes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Megan interned at Grassroots Leadershipas a student at Sarah Lawrence College; at the age of 19, she not only researched and wrote our first “Education Versus Incarceration” report, but organized its release of and media strategy. |
 June Rostan
June serves on the national staff of the AFL-CIO. She served for 17 years as the director of the Southern Empowerment Project and has worked on the staff of the Highlander Center. June was a founder of GIFT Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. She has also worked for the Coal Employment Project, a national organization of women coal miners. |
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 Kathleen Saadat
Kathleen has a rich history of progressive political work in the Pacific Northwest and, as an organizer for civil rights groups that work towards educating and enlightening the public about issues pertaining to the African-American community, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community, (LGBT), HIV/AIDS, people with lower incomes and women’s rights. She was featured in the Sundance Award winning film, Ballot Measure 9, for her work against the radical religious right. Kathleen Saadat brings a lifetime of experience, an extraordinary vision of inclusion and the expertise and passion to make things happen. |
 Silky Shah
Silky grew up in Houston and became active as a journalism student at the University of Texas at Austin. After college she worked with Grassroots Leadership as a student/youth organizer, educating students nationally about university connections to the private prison industry. She later spent six months in Gujarat, India volunteering with organizations focused on women's rights, communalism and displacement. Silky recently worked as an Outreach Organizer at the independent news hour, Democracy Now!, and has just joined the Detention Watch Network as their Organizing and Outreach Coordinator. She also currently co-produces Asia Pacific Forum, a progressive pan-Asian radio show on Pacifica's WBAI in New York. |
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 John Vaugh
John is The Executive Vice President of Auburn Theological Seminary and is nationally respected both for his strategic planning work and over twenty years of bold and resilient religious leadership. He was recently at the Twenty-First Century Foundation where he led a grant-making program that has directly impacted more than 850,000 people. He led the Foundation’s response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita from relief to rebuilding. He created the Black Men and Boys program that is forming a national policy agenda shaped both by and for local communities. He also served as one of four senior pastors at the historic Riverside Church as Minister for Education and Social Justice.
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