Jennifer Epps-Addison
Bio:
Jennifer Epps-Addison is President and Co-Executive Director at the Center for Popular Democracy, a national social and economic justice movement-building organization with 43 affiliates in 30 states. Previously, she served as Chief Program Officer for the Liberty Hill Foundation, a social justice foundation in Los Angeles that funds grassroots community organizing campaigns for social change. She also helped to coordinate the Fight for $15 in Wisconsin.
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