Dr. Betsy Leondar-Wright (she/her), lead writer, is a veteran of 30+ years of burnout jobs at economic justice nonprofits, including one coordinating a statewide pay equity coalition, three community organizing jobs, and two as Executive Director of severely underfunded nonprofits. She was the Communications Director at United for a Fair Economy (UFE) for 9 years. She coordinates the Staffing the Mission project on improving nonprofit jobs as a board member at the national anti-classism organization Class Action. For UFE, Class Action and other organizations, she has facilitated more than 250 popular education workshops around the US and the UK. As an Associate Professor of Sociology at Lasell University, she teaches about race and class inequality and social movement strategy. She is the author of Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures, and a co-author of The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide.
Kevin Simowitz (he/him), co-director of All Due Respect, has worked for nearly two decades as an organizer, campaign manager and political strategist. As a consultant, Kevin works with leading political and advocacy organizations to develop creative and successful campaign strategies for some of the most pressing legislative issues at the state and federal levels, and works with foundations to sharpen the ways that philanthropy can be of service to movement organizations. As the Political Director at Caring Across Generations, Kevin led the coalition to pass the Kupuna Caregivers Act, a first-of-its-kind initiative to support family caregivers of older adults, and also co-led the 2018 Homecare for All ballot initiative campaign, demonstrating the robust grassroots support for an innovative new model of care. At Maine People’s Alliance, Kevin worked as the Organizing Director and directed the Maine Small Business Coalition, coordinating the membership development and political program for more than 3,000 Coalition members. Kevin is a board member of Renew New England.
Kinzie Mabon (she/they), Deputy Director of All Due Respect and Toolkit project coordinator, has worked as an organizer, field director, mentor and trainer for the last 8 years focusing on voting rights, voter registration and mobilization, community and coalition building, and developing a leadership pipeline for organizers. In her role as Field Director at the Nebraska Civic Engagement Table, she focused on building organizational capacity for member organizations working on a multitude of issues, including voting rights, women’s rights, TLGBQIA2S+ rights, anti-racism and a wide range of economic issues. Their proudest accomplishments in this role were their development of Organizer School, a comprehensive training and placement program for organizers in the Nebraska nonprofit community, and their service as a member of the inaugural National Coordinating Committee for the State Voices network. Kinzie also serves as the board president of OutNebraska.
Flavian Philip (she/her), Staffing the Mission intern, is a recent graduate of The City College of New York (CUNY). Within the past 5 years, she’s interned for a plethora of nonprofit organizations focused on issues such as voting rights, anti-Semitism and the statistical misrepresentation of communities of color. Her passion for deconstructing isms like classism, racism and sexism motivate her aspiration of becoming a public interest lawyer in the near future.