Joy Cushman

Organizing & Campaigns Team

Title

Organizing Director

Bio

Joy Cushman works with progressive organizations and campaigns to build stronger volunteer leadership and engagement programs in order to win strategic issue and electoral campaigns. Joy grew up on a potato farm in Northern Maine and first learned to organize around values and community in the Baptist Church she grew up in during the 1980s. While a student at Bowdoin College, she organized scholarship students to successfully defend need-blind admissions and financial aid programs. Joy studied American and British labor movements during her doctoral studies at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She returned to organizing in Lowell & Lawrence Massachusetts, working with faith congregations and labor union locals on affordable housing and immigrant worker justice campaigns. Joy worked as Co-Coordinator for the Obama Organizing Fellows Program, and as a trainer and Deputy Field Director in several states during Barack Obama’s campaign for President.

Organizing/Political Hero

Alice Paul

How you stay sane outside work

Petting my plants, watering my cats, reading

Ninja or Pirate

Ninja

Plans during coming Zombie Apocalypse

Organize. Of course.