Linda S. Campbell
Helen S. Kim
Kim Klein
Robby Rodriguez
Emery Wright
Linda S. Campbell is an Independent Consultant providing consulting and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations in strategic planning; program planning and development; nonprofit start-up; board training and leadership development. Prior to her consulting work, Linda served in a variety of senior and executive positions in the nonprofit and government sector. She has provided technical assistance in capacity building to a variety of community and faith based nonprofit organizations. Linda served as Executive Director for one of NYC oldest AIDS service organizations, Minority Task Force on AIDS; and as Senior Director at the Michigan Public Health Institute and the National Center for Health Education. She has also served as a founding board member for several community based nonprofits beginning in 1985, and during the past two years, has provided planning assistance and to local African American health institute initiatives in Michigan. Linda holds a Masters Degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan.
Helen is an independent consultant, providing consulting and training assistance to community-based organizations in strategic planning, constituency development, community organizing, and fundraising. Prior to her consulting work, Helen worked with Asian Immigrant Women Advocates and Applied Research Center, Oakland, CA. She is an affiliated consultant with the National Community Development Institute and the French American Charitable Trust, and is also an adjunct faculty member at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Helen received her B.A. in History from Carleton College and J.D. from University of Minnesota Law School. She was awarded the Working Woman Award by Women Organizing to Reach Koreans and Sundiata Acoli Freedom Award by Youth United for Community Action.
Kim Klein is an internationally known fundraising trainer and consultant. She is the Chardon Press Series Editor at Jossey-Bass Publishers, which publishes and distributes materials that help to build a stronger nonprofit sector, and the founder and publisher of the bimonthly Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She is also a contributor to a number of books and periodicals on fundraising. Kim has worked in all aspects of fundraising: as staff, as volunteer, as board member, and as consultant. She is best known for adapting traditional fundraising techniques, particularly major donor campaigns, to the needs of organizations with small budgets working for social justice. Widely in demand as a speaker, Kim has provided training and consulting in 14 countries and 46 states. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Haas School of Business.
Robby is originally from Southern California by way of Tucson, Arizona. As a Cornell undergraduate student, he interned with SWOP during the summer of 1996. After becoming a full-time organizer with SWOP in 1997, he has helped to organize New Mexico communities around issues of youth criminalization, environmental, economic and social justice. He is currently a member of the Corrales Air Quality Task Force and past chair of the Youth Leadership Development Campaign of the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ). Robby has also participated in the movement for social justice at the regional, national and international level by representing SWOP and the SNEEJ at various conferences and meetings and by participating in and conducting trainings throughout the United States and internationally.
An Atlanta native, Emery has a background in youth development, community organizing and popular political education. As a founder and director for the Nia Project, a black youth development and community building organization, he spent five years working with young people from Boston, coastal South Carolina and Atlanta. Emery also helped to form and facilitate a Black Studies course in Boston’s South Bay Prison and has volunteered with other initiatives nationally and internationally for social and economic justice. Currently Emery is based in Atlanta and Program Director at Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide, which does popular political and economic education for movement building with groups and organizations locally and nationally.