Judith Freeman, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Judith is currently on leave to the Obama campaign. Judith Freeman is the co-founder and Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute, a training, research and development organization for technology-enabled organizers, activists, staff, and leaders. Previously, she was the senior political strategist at the AFL-CIO, where she also co-founded the Analyst Institute. During the 2004 presidential election, she worked on the Kerry campaign's internet operations. She advises political campaigns, unions and non-profit organizations on organizing, targeting, strategy and technology infrastructure. She worked for 5 years in technology at the University of Chicago where she also organized with social justice organizations.

Zack Exley, Co-Founder and President
Zack Exley is a strategic consultant with ThoughtWorks, Inc., where he advises organizations on communications, organizing and technology. He is also a co-founder of the New Organizing Institute. In 2005, he directed the online campaign for the British Labor Party's re-election, and was Director of Online Organizing and Communications for John Kerry's presidential campaign. Before that, he served as Organizing Director at MoveOn.org, and was an adviser to the early Dean campaign. Zack spent the 90's working as a union organizer. He entered Internet politics via his political parody website GWBush.com, which earned him the nickname "Garbage Man" from President Bush, as well as other early experiments in online organizing. He blogs at the Huffington Post about politics. And he writes the blog RevolutionInJesusland.com about the rise of progressive evangelical Christians in America.

Laura Packard, Interim Executive Director
Laura Packard currently serves as the Interim Executive Director while Judith Freeman is on sabbatical. Before joining NOI, she served as Internet Director for the Coalition for Progress in Michigan, as well as consulting for several campaigns and organizations including Schauer for Congress, BlogPac and Weirauch for Congress. Laura has taught sessions around the country on online organizing for groups such as the Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Clean Air Task Force, Center for Progressive Leadership, Democracy for America, Human Rights Campaign and America Votes/Michigan Voice. During the 2006 election cycle, Laura served as the Internet Communications Director for Senator Debbie Stabenow's successful reelection campaign. She's also an alum of the inaugural NOI training class in 2006. Previously she worked for a decade in the technology industry, at a couple small tech startups and the University of Michigan.

Heather Cronk, Training Director
Heather is Training Director at the New Organizing Institute. Immediately prior to her work at NOI, Heather worked with PledgeBank.com, a project of mySociety. In this position, Heather was responsible for reaching out to organizations and individuals across the country to encourage use of PledgeBank as a tool for local community organizing and citizen-centered collective action. Heather's background is in campus organizing, and worked with Idealist.org's campus program, first as an organizer and then as director. In the role of director, Heather coordinated Idealist's work with college students primarily in the United States, involving a unique combination of traveling nationally to train at campuses and conferences, running day-to-day operations for the program, working with a powerful team to organize a 1,500-person national conference on student engagement and activism, building a strong network of incredible university programs and nonprofit organizations, and creating a website tying all these things together seamlessly. The majority of her professional experience has been in higher education, helping students find pathways into college activism, socially responsible careers, and meaningful movement-building work. Simultaneous to her work with NOI, Heather is coordinating the IMPACT Conference, formerly known as the COOL Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference.

Kevin Walling, Development and Finance Associate
Kevin Walling currently serves as the Development and Finance Associate. Before joining NOI, Kevin served as the Director of Special Projects at the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, where he worked on development programs, planning special events along with crafting diocesan communications. He also has held various advancement positions with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center. As an undergraduate at Catholic University, Kevin also worked in the office of U.S. Senator Thomas Carper (DE) and on the 2004 reelection campaign of Delaware's Governor, Ruth Ann Minner.

Mia Cambronero, NOI Fellow
Mia Cambronero is currently a People for the American Way Fellow at the New Organizing Institute. She is a recent graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Mia served as the International Coordinator for STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, where she founded the organization's international division. She also worked on organizing professional athletes around the issue of the Darfur genocide at the Olympic Dream for Darfur Campaign and at Team Darfur. Before joining NOI, she also worked for the Office of the President at Georgetown, where she helped support the university's global engagements.