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Meg L. DeRonghe, Director, M+R International, has two decades of advocacy experience in the U.S., Europe and sub-Saharan Africa on global health and human rights issues. Most recently, Meg served as the director of advocacy and communication for the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa, an initiative of PATH. Before joining PATH, Meg spent seven years at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, working in state houses and global arenas promoting reproductive rights. A lawyer, Meg has drafted Cambodian election reform legislation and researched constitutional equality clauses and their long-term impact on gender balance. She currently lectures on the intersection between gender equity, health and human rights and provides pro bono representation for women in gender-based asylum applications. Meg earned her B.A. in Anthropology and International Studies at Kenyon College and her J.D. at the University of Michigan. She has taught "Women and the Law" for five years at Georgetown University.
Kevin G. Feltz, Director of Finance, comes to M+R after working as a Grants and Compliance manager for Katrina Aid Today, a federally funded two-year program to provide case management services for the survivors of one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Kevin has a wide range of experience in finance and administrative roles for both social service organizations and manufacturing companies. He is a Certified Management Accountant and holds degrees from Wright State University and Duke University. Kevin is originally from Ohio and lived in North Carolina before moving to D.C. in 2004.
Lori Fresina, New England Office Director, joined M+R in September following four years as the Northeast Regional Advocacy Director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK). Prior to CTFK, Lori worked with the American Cancer Society in a variety of advocacy positions since 1994, including Coordinator of Grassroots Advocacy for Massachusetts, Director of Advocacy for Massachusetts, and the Director of Smoke-Free New England. Lori has developed expertise in community mobilization strategies, regional collaborations, grassroots development and public health communication for a political audience. In 2002, she received an award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Jaycees as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Leaders" of the year.
Marjory Garrison, Senior Vice President, Business Development, leads teams of M+R staff from around the country in designing creative campaign and program plans for current and prospective M+R clients. An award-winning journalist by trade, Marjory brings extensive editorial expertise to the M+R team, most recently serving as the first City Editor of www.brooklynrail.org. Through in-depth research, integrated messaging and creative direction, Marjory has helped staff and board members of AARP, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Four Freedoms Fund, and others assess their issues, evaluate and refine their programs, and brand and market their campaigns. She has also worked with M+R clients to secure new funding from major foundation partners. Marjory received her Master’s degree in journalism from N.Y.U.
Leslie Kerns, Vice President, leads communications assessment, planning and implementation efforts for M+R clients including the T4America Campaign, GlobalGiving, Seva Foundation, Save Darfur Coalition, and the Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition. Leslie is an expert on strategic messaging and communications and has a reputation for helping nonprofits, funders and other mission-focused organizations connect with key audiences through targeted thought-leadership programs and high-level media coverage. A former attorney, Leslie leverages her public policy, analytical, and litigation skills to position, message and gain attention for mission-focused organizations. Leslie joined M+R after managing the Public Affairs Group at Solomon McCown & Company in Boston. Her experience also includes work with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Root Cause, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, CEOs for Cities, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and other community development, education, after school, and healthcare organizations.
Andrea Koppel, Director of Communications, joined M+R after spending 14 years as a foreign correspondent, State Department correspondent and most recently, Capitol Hill correspondent for CNN. Andrea is an award-winning, internationally renowned journalist with more than two decades of experience covering many of the biggest stories and most important newsmakers in the U.S. and around the world. Andrea, who speaks Mandarin Chinese, was CNN’s Beijing bureau chief from 1995-1998 and was also posted as a correspondent for CNN in Tokyo. During her tenure at the State Department, Andrea covered three secretaries of state and two presidents and traveled to places like Darfur, the Middle East, Russia, and others. Andrea’s experience in the field and her journalistic prowess are tremendous assets to M+R clients looking to create buzz in the media and ultimately, to influence public policy.
Michael O'Loughlin, NYC Office Director, specializes in developing and executing integrated strategies for issue-advocacy campaigns. Michael is currently serving as lead campaign strategist and manager for the Campaign for New York’s Future, a broad coalition of city groups united around Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bold and visionary PlaNYC goals to make a cleaner, healthier and more livable New York. His work with other M+R clients includes managing NY-based grassroots strategy for the Save Darfur Coalition, mobilizing citizens to propose and pass New York’s Smoke-Free Workplace Act, and coordinating grassroots turnout for “Listening to the City,” the historic meeting that rewrote plans for rebuilding Lower Manhattan after 9/11. Michael has also organized campaign operations for New York City mayoral and New York State legislative campaigns. Prior to joining M+R, he managed a variety of organizing and advocacy projects with the New York Public Interest Research Group. He received his degree from Princeton University.
Darcy Scott Martin, Director of Government Affairs, has more than a decade of experience working with a wide range of issue-advocacy organizations and coalitions as a lobbyist, fundraiser, organizer, and board member. Today she evaluates and runs field campaigns and manages Lobby Day events and trainings for M+R clients including the American Diabetes Association, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and others. Darcy was introduced to the advocacy community through her work at the Stern Family Fund. She then went on to serve as the Washington, D.C. director of Women’s Action for New Directions, as well as director of the WAND PAC and the TrueMajorityAction.org PAC. Her evaluation experience includes analyzing the effectiveness and capacity of organizations to conduct online and offline field campaigns in all 50 states on issues ranging from corporate accountability to environmental activism. Darcy sits on the boards of PeacePAC and the Scoville Fellowship.
C.B. Pearson, Missoula Office Director, has been a public interest advocate for more than 25 years, specializing in grassroots organizing, media and issue advocacy, coalition building, civic skills training and nonprofit management. Pearson began his public interest career with the Colorado Public Interest Research Group. For two years, he worked as an organizer for Ralph Nader. Pearson was the first director of the Montana PIRG in 1982. In addition, he was the executive director and lobbyist for Montana Common Cause and the Clark Fork-Pend Orielle Coalition. He has managed six Montana initiative/referenda campaigns. Prior to joining M+R, he ran his own consulting firm, working with nonprofits.
Lindsay Roitman, Seattle Office Director, came to M+R after serving as campaign manager of the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families. At M+R, Lindsay will be heading up the West Coast’s Susan G. Komen for the Cure Community Challenges this summer and fall. Lindsay has spent the past two decades in politics, including fundraising for Sen. Paul Wellstone and U.S. Senate candidate Ann Wynia (Minn.), and Bill Bradley’s bid for the White House. After stints consulting for EMILY’s List, International Earth Day 2000, the Millennium Project for the City of Seattle, and working in the corporate sector on diversity issues at Microsoft, Lindsay made her successful return to politics with the campaign to defeat the South Dakota abortion ban in November 2006. Lindsay is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota.
Allen Rosenfeld, Senior Vice President, brings nearly two-decades of issue-campaign experience to M+R on food, agriculture, telecommunications-economics, trade, and environmental policy. He has more than 15 years of experience conducting independent strategic assessments of nonprofit organizations, coalitions, and campaigns, and specializes in conducting economic analyses of consumer and taxpayer issues including agricultural policy, cell phone, and Internet issues. Allen received his Ph.D. from Cornell in agricultural economics and resides and works in Northern California.
Jeff Rusnak, Cleveland Office Director, has consulted on more than 100 successful campaigns over the course of his career and has provided strategic guidance for nonprofits, corporations, foundations and candidates (including U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and Ted Strickland) on communications, ballot initiatives, organizational development, public affairs and marketing needs. Most recently, Jeff served as the lead consultant in the successful effort to secure a stable source of public funding for arts and cultural organizations in Cuyahoga County, OH. He also helped launch several independent expenditure organizations that have played a critical role in turning Ohio around. Recognized early on by Campaigns & Elections Magazine as a rising star in American politics, Jeff started out in various campaign posts for candidates at all levels of government. He is a board member of the National Jewish Democratic Council, The Free Clinic of Greater Cleveland, and the Ingenuity Festival.
Michael Ward, Senior Vice President, develops and implements innovative Internet strategies on behalf of major nonprofits. Prior to joining M+R, Michael worked as the Senior Consultant for TechRocks. During his time at TechRocks he provided strategic advice on public affairs campaigns for leading pro-choice and environmental organizations. In addition, he oversaw the development of a cutting-edge technology-planning tool available to nonprofit organizations via the web. In 1992 Michael helped pioneer the use of the Internet as an effective organizing tool at the Center for Study of Responsive Law by using online tools to successfully advocate for public access to government databases. Michael graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of International and Public Affairs.
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