National Yearlong Fellows Announced

July 21st, 2010

After an intensive nomination and application process, we are happy to announce the participants in our eighth annual National Yearlong Fellowship, Leading From the Inside Out.

Each year, Rockwood's Yearlong takes 24 nationally recognized leaders through an intensive, transformative learning program. Since 2003, this executive leadership program has emerged as one of the nation's leading learning laboratories for experienced social change leaders.

The National Yearlong Fellowship selection process takes into account a great number of factors, including Rockwood's commitment to build connections between leaders who are diverse in personal/social history and identity, geography, methodology and issue focus.

The 2010-11 Leading from the Inside Out National Yearlong Fellows will include:

Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director – National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

Ai-jen Poo, Director – National Domestic Workers Alliance

Al Davidoff, Chief of Staff – American Federation of Teachers

Amado Uno, Executive Director – Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO

Ana Yanez Correa, Executive Director – Texas Criminal Justice Coalition

Anita Earls, Executive Director – Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Arturo Vargas, Executive Director – National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials

Becky Tarbotton, Acting Executive Director – Rainforest Action Network

Benjamin Jealous, Executive Director – NAACP

Dan Lashoff, Climate Center Director – Natural Resources Defense Council

Dan McGrath, Executive Director – TakeAction Minnesota

Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director – National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Erich Pica, Executive Director – Friends of the Earth

Gustavo Torres, Executive Director – CASA de Maryland, Inc.

Ilyse Hogue, Director of Political Advocacy and Communications – MoveOn.org

Jonathan Liss, Executive Director – Tenants and Workers United, and Virginia New Majority

Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director – Advancement Project

Kirk Noden, Executive Director – Mahoning Valley Organizing Project

Patti Devlin, Federation Liaison to the General President – Laborers' International Union of North America

Pramila Jayapal, Founder & Executive Director – One America

Raquiba LaBrie, Program Director – Open Society Institute

Rinku Sen, Executive Director – The Applied Research Center

Tracy Sturdivant, Incoming Executive Director – State Voices

Vanita Gupta, Deputy Legal Director, Director of Center for Justice – American Civil Liberties Union

Please join us in congratulating our new National Yearlong Fellows!

For more information about Leading From the Inside Out:
>> www.rockwoodleadership.org/yearlong

For more information about this year's Fellows:
>> http://www.rockwoodleadership.org/article.php?id=214

For a complete list of past Fellows:
>> http://www.rockwoodleadership.org/article.php?id=216