Bios
Jessamyn Sabbag
Future 5000 Director
Jessamyn Sabbag is a 28 year old Leo, born and raised in the Bay Area, currently based out of Oakland. Starting back in middle school organizing a gum-chewing campaign and then a Student Bill of Rights, Jessamyn has been at it for over 15 years. After graduating from ...
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Manju Rajendran
Future 5000 Research and Development Team4
Manju Rajendran loves mangoes. She is a desi 25-year old artist, organizer, capoeirista and biologist based in Durham, North Carolina, the center of the universe. She has been doing movement work for fourteen years. As the Communications Director for the South Carolina ...
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Technology Organizer, Movement Strategy Center
ibrahim… is a connector dude making sure the progressive youth movement is “mapped” aka, finding out who is doing what, where, and when … then creating spaces for them to be able to network with similar folks nationwide. Often working, he studi...
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ibrahim abdul-matin
Technology Organizer, Movement Strategy Center
ibrahim… is a connector dude making sure the progressive youth movement is “mapped” aka, finding out who is doing what, where, and when … then creating spaces for them to be able to network with similar folks nationwide. Often working, he studi...
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Future 5000 Research and Development Team
Maryam is a poet/writer, musician, teacher, a practicing Muslim, daughter of a Muslim father and Catholic mother, an eager student of life, and the 10th child born to refugees of war. She lives in a cream-colored house in Oakland, CA where she appreciates her two lemon ...
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Aleah Ranjitsingh
Future 5000 Research and Development Team
I was born and raised in the beautiful Caribbean twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The eldest child of four, I lived there with my parents, two brothers and sister until the age of 18 when I decided that I wanted to come to the United States to attend college...
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Future 5000 Research and Development Team
Before joining Young People For as a consultant in the spring of 2005, Shaunna was the Executive Director of Bike & Build, Inc, a nonprofit dedicated to raising money for and awareness of affordable housing issues through cross-country cycling events. Prior to that ...
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Ted Lechterman
Future 5000 Research and Development Team
A rising junior at Harvard at the time of his work with Future 5000, Ted comes from a history of youth activism and heads toward a future in the progressive movement. His battles against an oppressive and discriminatory dress code, an Indian mascot, and student apathy ...
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Venus Rodriguez
Future 5000 Contractor
Venus is formerly homeless, 27 years old, and of Puerto Rican descent.
Elia Gilbert
Future 5000 Contractor
If non-profits were pots of yummy food bubbling on the stove, then Elia would be a devoted chef with her mixing spoon in all of them at once. Elia came to Oakland a year ago to get involved in the creative initiatives here, and was drawn to Future5000 because of i...
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