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CPL relies on some of the most talented and experiences experts in the progressive movement to be guest trainers at our programs. Leaders from the environmental movement to community organizing to media work dedicate their time and energy to helping design and run sessions on a wide variety of topics.
Click on the links below to read about a few of our faculty members and guest trainers:
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John Loredo - 2006 Arizona Faculty Member
A fourth generation Phoenician, today John Loredo serves as a project consultant for such prestigious clients as Chicanos Por La Causa, McCormick Baron & Salazar and other important community organizations and businesses. In 1996 he was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives, being re-elected in 1998, 2000 and 2002. He served in House Leadership as the Democratic Whip and Democratic Leader respectively. Read more... |
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Orli Cotel - Guest Trainer
As Publicist for the national Sierra Club, Orli works with over 100 organizers around the country to help them effectively tell their local environmental stories. She provides consulting and training in skills such as framing, strategic media planning, and television interviews, and helps elevate those local stories to national and international audiences. Read more... |
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Sultan Shakir - Guest Trainer
Sultan Shakir is a native of Philadelphia and began his organizing experience in low-income neighborhoods working to organize neighbors to address community concerns, from public dumping to school improvement.
Shakir now works for the Human Rights Campaign as a regional field director working to organize HRC members and community allies to help elect fair-minded individuals to state and national government. Read more... |
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Jamal Simmons - Guest Trainer
Jamal Simmons has more than a decade of government, non-profit, corporate and political communications experience. He is a veteran of four presidential campaigns, most recently serving as Traveling Press Secretary for Senator Bob Graham and then General Wesley K. Clark. Read more... |
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Theresa Fraley - 2006 Michigan Faculty Member
Theresa Fraley has extensive experience in Democratic politics at both the state and national level. While in Washington DC, she worked for such grassroots political organizations as the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL). Read more... |
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Blair Talmadge - 2006 Pennsylvania Faculty Member
Blair has 14 years of diversified administrative experience and achievement as a political consultant. He has worked on campaigns in 21 states in various capacities – from Campaign manager to Church Lady. Committed to social change, Blair aspires to elect progressive leaders who will redirect scarce public resources to its best use. Read more... |
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Dilia Loe - 2006 Arizona Faculty Member
Dilia Loe is an activist and seasoned non-profit professional with extensive experience in progressive environments. Skilled in resource development, she has a proven track record in organizational development, program evaluation, strategic planning, fund development and public relations. Read more... |
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Kristen Grimm - Guest Trainer
Kristen Grimm is the president of Spitfire Strategies, which provides communications solutions to support positive social change. She has conducted many capacity building communications trainings for nonprofits, foundations, and corporations including the Open Society Institute, Pew Charitable Trusts, Arsalyn Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, and National Association of Children’s Hospitals. Read more... |
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Representative Krysten Sinema - 2006 Arizona Faculty Member
Representative Krysten Sinema not only represents District 15 in the Arizona House of Representatives, but also teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Social Work and practices criminal defense law, having recently earned her Juris Doctorate from ASU School of Law. Read more... |
Some of our other trainers, curriculum writers, and guests include the following:
Marie-Therese Dominguez
Sultan Shakir
Rachel Magnuson
Mark Fisk
Amy Chapman
Daren Berringer
Joe Hoeffel
Jennie Blackton
Denise Rawls
Daniel McElhatton
Dennis Denno
Garland Doyle
Cassanda Ulbrich
Theresa Fraley
Dwight Evans
Daylin Leach
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Mike Lux
Sharon Lettman
Orli Cotel
Sarah Ingersoll
Dan Fee
Brian Selander
Bill Peduto
Larry Ceisler
Rachel Magnuson
Barry Kauffman
Pan Godchaux
Lynn Jondahl
John Freeman
Cyndi Roper
Dave Waymire
Mike Veon |
Sharon Lettman
Gloria Forouzan
Susan Gobreski
Amy Green
Kelly Young
Heather Arnet
Rachel Canning
Katherine Fink
Pat Clark
Governor Jennifer Granholm
Daren Berringer
Ryan Friedrichs
Gilda Jacobs
Josh Shapiro
Mike Gerber
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