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by Crystal McMillan on Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Francisca Porchas, Lead Coordinator
	Francisca Porchas is a graduate of the National School for Strategic Organizing, class of 2003. She was born in Sonora, Mexico, immigrated to the US with her family, and grew up in Phoenix. She graduated from Arizona State University where she helped organize student support for the Pictsweet Mushrooms Campaign. She coordinates 19 groups across the country on a program of demands that attempts to bring civil rights and environmental justice priorities to the $500 billion dollar federal surface transportation act. She has been a community organizer for over ten years and also helps co-lead the Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign that fights for a first class bus system in Los Angeles, the auto capital of the world. She is bilingual in Spanish.
Chantal Coudoux, D.C. Policy Advocate
	Chantal Coudoux is the D.C.-based policy advocate for the National campaign, Transit Riders for Public Transportation. She also organizes with the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles. She grew up in Washington D.C. before moving to California where she received her B.A. in social justice politics from Scripps College. During college, Chantal was active in the Asian American organizations on campus and worked on the Strategy Center’s No on the Six Campaign and Transit Riders for Public Transportation. She will be participating in the National School for Strategic Organizing class of 2011.
Crystal McMillan, Organizer
	Crystal McMillan is an Organizer with the Transit Riders for Public Transportation. In addition to her work with TRPT, she works as an organizer with the Bus Riders Union. Crystal grew up as a military brat in a family of 5 sisters. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Transit dependent, Crystal was recruited off the bus into the BRU. She participated as a panelist at the Re-Envision Urban Transit Conference. She works as a liaison with the Transportation Equity Network. She attended the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, and continues to advocate locally and in Washington D.C. for better transit.
Daniel Won-gu Kim, Communications Coordinator
	Senior Communications Organizer. Communications Coordinator for Transit Riders for Public Transportation. Also leads e-organizing work & development and provides creative direction for design/agitprops across the Strategy Center's projects and campaigns. Graduated from the National School for Strategic Organizing in 2001, having recruited "Grandma Kim" (Hee Pok Kim) and, with her, led a breakthrough of Bus Riders Union organizing into Koreatown. Instructor and assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder from 2002 until 2008, when he returned to work at the Strategy Center. Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell University. Also supports Koreatown organizing work and helps coordinate Strategy Center Publications and Frontlines Press. Father of two. Speaks Korean and French.