Convergence Fellows

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Recruitment: Dominic Chacón

Dominic@powershift.org

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Logistics: Sam James

Sam@powershift.org

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Programming: Mayana Nell Torres

Mayana@powershift.org

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Convergence Coordinator: Sasha Irby

Sasha @powershift.org

The fellows, Convergence Coordinator, and Steering Commitee are a core team of the convergence, but we also have the wider PSN staff involved in the planning of Power Shift 2023. Learn more about us at powershift.org/staff.

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Steering Committee

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Ida Aronson

Ida is a Houma person on current Houma lands. Ida is heavily involved in local Indigenous revitalization and a variety of activism efforts around the Gulf South and beyond.

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Iesha Baldwin

Iesha is excited to actively contribute her leadership, time, and talents to the 2023 Power Shift Convergence . Since 2016, she has worked with various nonprofits brainstorming and implementing effective governance models to solve environmental, social, and climate related problems.

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Dan Bingler

Dan was born in Plaquemines Parish and is the founder of the Greater New Orleans Caring Collective. They organize community care and support & disaster response to benefit marginalized leadership in and around Bvlbancha.

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Kiana Kerr

Kiana is the outreach director for International Student Environmental Coalition and Black collective intern at Corporate Accountability .

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Kellyn LaCour-Conant

Kellyn is a Houston-raised two-spirit daughter of the Cane River Creole community. Ecologist, youth mentor, justice advocate. Current Restoration Programs Director with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.

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Alexandra Murcia

Alex is an organizer of needs and delusionally hopeful coalition builder. Their work history has been a mix of hospitality industry and administrative coordinating with the past few years being almost exclusively mutual aid work in and around Bvlbancha.

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Cynthia Russell

Cynthia is an enrolled member of the Clifton Chahta tribe of Louisiana as well as a current Psychology and Philosophy Pre-law Double Major at Loyola University in Bvlbancha.

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Sonali Shah

Sonali began their environmental justice work in 8th grade and started working with Power Shift Network as a freshman in college through the Network Support Team. Now they’re excited to transition out of NST and begin scheming for the convergence!