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Podcast speakers:
Martha Valadez
Martha Valadez (she / they) has managed campaigns to connect urban and rural communities with better transportation infrastructure, END Deportation campaigns, and built coalitions to secure policy wins at the city and county level. Martha has organized with families living in SRO Hotels in San Francisco as well as unhoused Oakland, CA residents and managed a campaign for progressive Mechanical Trade Unions in the South Bay area of San Francisco.
Gillian Gainsley
Gillian Gainsley is Director of Strategic Planning at Detroit Public Television and a member of the Ypsilanti Community School board. She is dedicated to community services, formerly serving on the AAATA board and working at the Ypsilanti District Library. She lives in Ypsilanti with her family.
Kathy Meagher
Tad Wysor
Tad Wysor is a long-time resident of Washtenaw County and a daily bus rider during his years of commuting to work at the EPA National Lab in Ann Arbor. He is Lead Organizer with Washtenaw Regional Organizing Coalition, WeROC, which is the local affiliate of the national Gamaliel Network of community organizing projects and brings new local leaders into active participation in decisions that affect them, through grassroots action campaigns on issues like improved transit. He is also on the Executive Board of the local Huron Valley Area Labor Federation/AFL-CIO.
Promotional materials created during the 2014 transit campaign.