Rob Anderson
Editor, CampusProgress.org

Before joining Campus Progress in 2007, Rob wrote The Editorialist, a blog covering newspaper opinion articles, for the Washington Post’s website. Rob has also worked as a reporter-researcher for The New Republic, interned for The American Prospect, and served as the editor-in-chief of Georgetown University’s weekly newsmagazine, the Georgetown Voice. Rob graduated from Georgetown in 2005 with a degree in American and African American Studies.

Tommaso Boggia
Advocacy Associate

Prior to joining the Center, Tommaso was the Sustainability Event Coordinator for his alma mater, UC Santa Cruz, where he received a degree in Sociology with an emphasis in environmental justice. He led numerous climate change campaigns on his campus, including one to offset 100% of UC Santa Cruz’s energy use and others implementing energy efficiency programs saving UC Santa Cruz over $30,000 in utility costs. Tommaso has worked extensively with student groups, including the California Public Interest Research Group, the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Campus Program, and the California Student Sustainability Coalition. While not working to make the world a greener place, Tommaso can be found riding around town on his Bajaj Chetak scooter or his Gary Fischer bicycle that gets infinity miles per gallon.

Annika Carlson
Special Assistant to the Director

Annika graduated in 2007 from Hope College, where she received a BA with honors in English and Political Science. At Hope, she was involved in Student Congress, served as a student liaison to the Board of Trustees, protested lack of academic freedom, led the Women’s Issues Organization and wrote for the campus paper and literary magazine. She also worked as a research assistant, focusing on international food aid and anti-poverty strategies.

Thomas Coen
Campus Publications Associate

Thomas graduated in 2007 from Wesleyan University with a BA in Government and Economics and a Certificate in International Relations. While at Wesleyan, Thomas co-hosted a weekly political talk radio show, was a research assistant focusing on U.S. counterterrorism policy, and co-founded a publication, Incite Magazine, that combines news analysis and political commentary with action and activism. He has interned at People for the American Way and in the United States Senate.

Julia Cohen
Deputy Director

Julia has extensive experience with policy and youth organizing work. Most recently, she was an information and communications technology consultant working for a boutique software company, Voxiva, Inc., on projects for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the United Nations Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery. She has also been a senior adviser on citizen participation and youth civic engagement and a Country Director in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI); Executive Director of Youth Noise for Save the Children; Executive Director of the Youth Vote Coalition at the League of Women Voters; Vice President of Rock the Vote; Legislative Representative for Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Population Officer in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration in the U.S. State Department; and Office Manager of Digital Pictures. Julia is on the Board of Witness, Atlas Service Corps, and the Young Voter PAC. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and C-SPAN. Julia received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a M.P.H. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. In her spare time she likes to eat cornichon pickles and mango chutney (but not together) and can be found roller blading or watching a documentary film.

Stephanie Condello
Conference Associate

Stephanie Condello is a Conference Associate for Campus Progress. She is a recent graduate of the State University of New York at Geneseo, where she majored in Political Science. While at Geneseo, she served as Campus Relations Coordinator and as Student Director of Academic Affairs for the Student Association. Stephanie worked as a research assistant for the International Relations Department where she investigated theories on Information Intervention. This past fall she interned for Campus Progress on the Events Team.

Pedro de la Torre III
Advocacy Senior Associate

Before joining Campus Progress in 2005, Pedro was an active member of UT Watch, which is a student based watchdog group for the University of Texas. He was also involved in a bilingual voter registration drive as an employee of Proyecto Buena Vista. Pedro graduated with a BA in Sociology from University of Texas – Austin.

Arielle Fleisher
Events Associate

Arielle recently graduated from the University of California, Davis where she studied Latin America History and Spanish. As a student at Davis, she worked to promote access to condoms and STI testing, and planned numerous special events including her personal favorite, Sex Fest 07: A Safer Sex Awareness Carnival. Arielle interned at a non-profit in Los Angeles where she helped expand access to healthcare for low income communities and was a health policy intern at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in DC. She also loves licorice.

Shereen Hall
Online Communications Manager

Before joining Campus Progress, Shereen was a Strategic Brand Mangement Coordinator for Depuy Orthopaedics, a Communications Fellow with Polaris Project, a freelance communications consultant and web designer, a Graphics Instructor at Ohio University, and an Intern with Senators Barbara Mikulski and Herb Kohl. Shereen also worked as a Youth Treatment Specialist in Indiana, where she taught independent living skills to teenage boys in a group home. Shereen received a B.A. from Lee University and is completing work toward her M.S. degree in journalism from Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism where she studied publications management and online journalism, and researched perceived media bias and media uses for mood management. While a graduate student, Shereen served as Web Designer for The Post, a student-run daily newspaper, and was a key online organizer in establishing a lindy hop dance community in Athens, Ohio.

David Halperin
Director, Campus Progress, and Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress

David joined the Center for American Progress in September 2004 to build Campus Progress, which was launched in February 2005. He previously was: a consultant and attorney, advising groups including Public Citizen, Greenpeace, and Democracy for America; senior policy advisor and speechwriter for Howard Dean's presidential campaign; founding executive director of the American Constitution Society; Special Assistant for National Security Affairs and speechwriter to President Bill Clinton ; fellow of the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society; legal and policy advisor to Ralph Nader; solo legal practitioner and legal associate to Professor Laurence Tribe; co-founder of Progressive Networks (now RealNetworks); counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee; law clerk to U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell; research assistant to Robert McNamara; and research analyst at the Arms Control Association. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, National Law Journal, Foreign Policy, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, etc. He graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School.

Rosanna Herrera
Events Associate

Rosanna Herrera is a recent graduate of Vassar College, where she majored in Sociology and minored in Hispanic Studies. While at Vassar, she lobbied for sex education in New York public schools, brought various speakers and entertainment acts to campus, and worked at an afterschool program. Rosanna interned at a nonprofit in New York that provides services to low-income families and also at an NGO in Brazil that seeks to empower young women through education.

Paula-Raye O'Sullivan
Events Associate

Paula comes to Campus Progress from the Disney Event Group where she coordinated events for Disney Executives across the Walt Disney Company. Previously she has worked as a field representative on the Obama for America campaign as well as an Assistant Event Planner for Harvard Law School Events Office. During her undergraduate career at Harvard College, she contributed to campus social life through a slew of successful events aimed at promoting cultural understanding between Caribbean and African-American student populations and the greater campus community. Her passion for events extends to her personal activities, in which she serves as the Logistics Manager on the annual Taste of the Caribbean Summer Festival in Orlando, FL.

Tanya Paperny
Advocacy Associate

Tanya recently graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied Women’s Studies and History and was a leader in the Queer Student Union, Women’s Commission, and Solidarity Against War. She tends to think that mainstream media in this country is pretty screwy, so to try to change that, she’s interned at KCSB and WAMU-FM, and written, edited, and designed for UCSB’s DisOrientation Guide, HerStory Feminist Magazine, and The Bottom Line, an alternative student newspaper. She recently completed an internship at Women Work! and a cross-country road trip in an old-school car.

Zach Pentel
Online Communications Associate

Before joining Campus Progress in 2007, Zach worked in the College Marketing department at Warner Music Group and as a Marketing Coordinator at FierceMarkets Inc. While a student at George Washington University, he was a Senior Staff Writer at The Hatchet newspaper and served as Concerts Director for the GWU Program Board. He graduated with honors in 2007 with a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy, and is currently a Master's degree candidate at Georgetown University's school for Communication, Culture and Technology.

Jesse Singal
Associate Editor, CampusProgress.org

In 2006 Jesse graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a BA in Philosophy. While at Michigan he wrote an opinion column for The Michigan Daily. Jesse has interned at the Washington Monthly, Time.com, Talking Points Memo, and other publications. His humor writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Cracked.com.

Madhuri Singh
Civil Rights Organizer

Prior to joining Campus Progress in 2006, Madhuri interned with Senator Evan Bayh and Congressman Joe Crowley, worked as a consultant for the nationally-recognized Detroit non-profit Focus: HOPE, and traveled to India to study the impact of globalization on local artisans and later to raise awareness about tobacco use among youth. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she founded the South Asian Progressive Alliance and helped revive the Students of Color Coalition. She was heavily involved in organizing around issues of civil rights, social justice and students’ rights on campus. She received her BBA from Michigan’s Ross School of Business, concentrating in Corporate Strategy and International Business, with a minor in Political Science. Madhuri is currently studying law at American University.

Kay Steiger
Associate Editor, CampusProgress.org

Kay previously worked as an editorial assistant at The American Prospect. She interned for Mpls.St.Paul Magazine and The American Prospect. She has written for The American Prospect Online, TAPPED, and Bitch Magazine. She graduated with a BA in Print Journalism from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where she served as editor-in-chief of The Wake Student Magazine.

Clyde Williams
Consultant

Clyde advises Campus Progress on events, media, and outreach. He was previously Vice President of State and Local Government Relations at the Center for American Progress. He also previously served as principal adviser to former President Bill Clinton, counseling him on domestic issues, with specific emphasis on the development of programs targeting underserved communities. He served as deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and in many other capacities within the Clinton administration during its second term. He also worked at the District of Columbia City Council for the late Council Chairman John A. Wilson.

Erica Williams
Policy and Advocacy Manager

Before joining Campus Progress, Erica served as a field associate at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights where she worked with some of Washington’s most powerful players in progressive politics, implementing and coordinating strategies to galvanize grassroots support & activity in over 45 states for effective civil and human rights legislation at the federal level. Having helped to coordinate grassroots campaigns around judicial nominations, affirmative action, and the successful reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, her work most recently focused on the LCCREF Media & Telecommunications Project which seeks to help the national civil rights community play a central role in the policy debates shaping the nation’s media and communications landscape. Her work has also been divided amongst various other social justice projects including the campaign to secure voting representation for the District of Columbia and pursuing effective federal hate crimes legislation. Erica is a native Washingtonian and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in African American Studies and Public Policy.

Interns

Saxon Baird
Edit Intern

Terri Daugherty
Events Intern

Zach Epstein
Web Intern

Aditi Hardikar
Conference Intern

Aaron Ludensky
Edit Intern

Nicholle Manners
Edit Intern

Nick Pastan
Issues + Outreach Intern

Laura Perez
Publications Intern

Artair Rogers
Events Intern

Matt Szewczyk
Video Intern

Ashley Wiers
Outreach Intern

Chenwei Zhang
Issues + Outreach Intern