ONE Massachusetts Staff
Outreach,Communications and Community Capacity Training - Yawu Miller
Yawu Miller is an experienced journalist and community organizer. He also serves as a senior editor at the Boston Banner, which for 40 years has been Boston’s African American newspaper. Yawu’s writing has chronicled the political and social justice movements in the Greater Boston area for the last 16 years, forging relationships with activists from communities in Boston and across the state. Additionally, he is an advisory board member of the Ethnic Media Project, an initiative of UMass Boston’s Center for Media and Society aimed at building greater cooperation between news outlets serving the state’s communities of color. A life-long Boston resident, Yawu graduated from Dartmouth College in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature.
Contact Yawu: yawu[at]realclout.org |
Capacity Building for Advocacy Training - Judy Meredith
Judy Meredith is the founder and Executive Director of the Public Policy Institute. A veteran lobbyist, Judy has worked for more than thirty years creating change through legislative advocacy. Judy’s lobbying experience in Massachusetts began in 1969 when she became a volunteer lobbyist for her adoptive and foster parent group. After ten years of working as an advocate inside and outside of state government, she founded Meredith and Associates a political consulting firm known for its work with nonprofits. Over the years, Judy’s lobbying work evolved into a coaching model in which she guides clients through the process of developing their own internal capacity for advocacy by mentoring staff, building leadership skills of volunteers, and helping to broker constructive and positive working partnerships with policy makers.
Contact Judy: judy[at]realclout.org | 617-275-2923
Capacity Building for Education Reform Advocacy - Sondra Peskoe
Sondra Peskoe is a professional educator and advocate who has devoted much of her adult life to the welfare of children, women, and 
families. Sondra works with nonprofit organizations analyzing national and state legislation and organizing outreach to legislators, advocating for progressive, pragmatic public policy. She is an active community leader and activist working on issues of social, economic and racial justice. As a volunteer, she works in area public schools and serves on the board of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts and Puppet Showplace Theatre. She also volunteers with Junior Achievement and has been recognized twice during her ten years of service as an outstanding volunteer.
As an active member of the leadership planning and advisory group, Sondra is helping to build the Coalition to Dismantle the Cradle to Prison Pipeline in MA by advising the organization's efforts to pass legislation to reform zero tolerance school discipline policies in Massachusetts, formulating goals and action plans, and mobilizing key stakeholders to join the coalition. Additionally, Sondra is the Education advocacy member of Education Law Task Force - School Exclusion & Dropout Prevention Coalition, functioning as the key organizer of the legislative campaign for two education bills.
Prior to moving to the Boston metropolitan area, Sondra lived in the Metro D.C. area and worked for nonprofit and for-profit real estate development and management companies as their chief financial officer, deputy programs director, and asset manager. She has a B.S. in Business Administration and Accounting and is a CPA. She received her M.Ed. from Loyola University in Maryland and has taught Montessori education.
Contact Sondra at speskoe@realclout.org