Realizing Our Power: Visions for Youth Organizing in the Bay Area February 16, 2006

The Action Caucus and the East Bay Young Democrats present:
Realizing Our Power: Visions for Youth Organizing in the Bay Area

http://www.actioncaucus.org/events/realizingourpower

A panel discussion on building a movement that will fight for young people and win.

Our panel:
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga founded and blogs for Daily Kos, a Democratic blog that receives about 20 million unique visits per month. His book, Crashing the Gate, co-authored with MyDD.com's Jerome Armstrong, will be out in March.
Hallie Montoya Tansey is the National Program Director of the League of Young Voters (AKA the League of Pissed Off Voters). She was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM.

Graciela Elizabeth Geyer is the Executive Director of the University of California Students Association. Liz is an alumna of UCLA and a former USCA board member 98-00. Liz also served as the Student of Color Campus Diversity Project Director for the United States Student Association 2000-2002.
Chloë Drew is Campaign Director for Congresswoman Barbara Lee's re-election campaign. She manages the Congresswoman's High School Activists Project that recruits and trains high school students from across the 9th District. Chloe is a founding board member of OaklandVOTE, a non-partisan voter education project dedicated to engaging voters in low turnout communities of Oakland.
Melanie Nutter is the Deputy District Director for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Prior to her current position, she was Executive Director of the San Francisco Democratic Party. Melanie will MC our discussion.

Daily Kos diary on the talk:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/9/15755/02314

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