Katie Andriulli
Communications and Outreach Manager

Katie comes to Campus Progress from the DC public relations firm Venture Communications, where she did media work for progressive nonprofits and for the 2008 Oscar winner for best documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side.” From 2005 to 2007, Katie was a Communications Associate at the Justice Project, a DC-based nonprofit that promotes fairness and accuracy in the criminal justice system. Katie is a 2005 graduate of Georgetown University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Independent newspaper. She has also worked as an editorial intern in arts and entertainment at the Washington Post Express and as a promotions intern with Island Def Jam Records in New York. In her spare time, Katie can often be found dancing (badly) to 80s music.

Tommaso Boggia
Advocacy Associate

Prior to joining the Center, Tommaso was the Sustainability Event Coordinator for his alma mater, UC Santa Cruz, where he received a degree in Sociology with an emphasis in environmental justice. He led numerous climate change campaigns on his campus, including one to offset 100% of UC Santa Cruz’s energy use and others implementing energy efficiency programs saving UC Santa Cruz over $30,000 in utility costs. Tommaso has worked extensively with student groups, including the California Public Interest Research Group, the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Campus Program, and the California Student Sustainability Coalition. When he's not working to make the world a greener place, Tommaso can be found riding around town on his Bajaj Chetak scooter or his Gary Fischer bicycle that gets infinity miles per gallon.

Natasha Bowens
Advocacy Associate

Natasha is a 2005 graduate of the University of Florida, where she graduated with honors from the College of Journalism and Communications. Prior to joining Campus Progress, Natasha worked on the Obama campaign in South Florida, where she ran voter registration drives and implemented a shuttle service to the voting polls for students at Florida Atlantic University. Natasha's passion is the environment and she fought to make polluters pay and invest in clean energy while working as a canvass field manager for Environment California in San Diego. Before that, she spent two years developing and running an eco-friendly lodge in Costa Rica. In her free time, Natasha can be found designing organic cotton shirts to raise awareness about sustainability, writing a blog on eco-awareness or practicing yoga.

Annika Carlson
Manager of Operations and Development

Annika graduated in 2007 from Hope College, where she received a B.A. with honors in English and Political Science. At Hope, she was involved in Student Congress, served as a student liaison to the Board of Trustees, protested lack of academic freedom, led the Women’s Issues Organization and wrote for the campus paper and literary magazine. She also worked as a research assistant, focusing on international food aid and anti-poverty strategies.

Pedro de la Torre III
Advocacy Senior Associate

Pedro de la Torre III has worked on improving college affordability and protecting the free exchange of ideas on campus at both the state and national level, and coordinates Campus Progress efforts on those issues. He has advocated on behalf of increased investment in higher education, restoring integrity to the financial aid system, improving protections for borrowers, increasing grant aid, and related issues. Before joining Campus Progress in 2005, Pedro was an active member of UT Watch, a student based watchdog group for the University of Texas. He was also involved in a bilingual voter registration drive as an employee of Proyecto Buena Vista. Pedro graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from University of Texas – Austin.

Arielle Fleisher
Events Associate

Arielle is a 2007 graduate of the University of California, Davis, where she studied Latin America History and Spanish. As a student at Davis, she worked to promote access to condoms and STI testing, and planned numerous special events including her personal favorite, Sex Fest 07: A Safer Sex Awareness Carnival. Arielle interned at a non-profit in Los Angeles where she helped expand access to healthcare for low income communities and was a health policy intern at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in DC. She also loves licorice.

Isabelle Gerard
Special Assistant to the Director of Campus Progress

Isabelle comes to Campus Progress from the D.C. opinion research firm of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, where she worked for the Interest Group team. Previously, Isabelle worked on Senator Chris Dodd's (D-CT) 2008 presidential campaign in Iowa. She is a graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington where she studied political science, gender studies, and Spanish. While at Indiana, she volunteered at a center for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and as a peer educator for Planned Parenthood. In her spare time, she can be found folding paper cranes for world peace and promoting comprehensive sexuality education programs in schools.

Sara Haile-Mariam
Communications and Outreach Associate

While earning her B.A. in Communications at New York University, Sara volunteered as a grassroots organizer, surrogate and out-of-state coordinator for the New York Obama campaign. Sara spoke on behalf of the campaign at rallies and town halls in New York City and on television, emphasizing the importance of young people’s participation in politics. Since the campaign, Sara has continued to write about youth activism, contributing to Global Grind and the Huffington Post. She also served as campaign coordinator for David Yassky’s campaign for New York City Comptroller.

Shereen Hall
Online Communications Manager

Before joining Campus Progress, Shereen was a Strategic Brand Management Coordinator for Depuy Orthopaedics, a Communications Fellow with Polaris Project, a freelance communications consultant and web designer, a Graphics Instructor at Ohio University, and an Intern with Senators Barbara Mikulski and Herb Kohl. Shereen also worked as a Youth Treatment Specialist in Indiana, where she taught independent living skills to teenage boys in a group home. Shereen received a B.A. from Lee University and an M.S. in journalism from Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism where she studied publications management and online journalism, and researched perceived media bias and media uses for mood management. While a graduate student, Shereen served as Web Designer for The Post, a student-run daily newspaper, and was a key online organizer in establishing a lindy hop dance community in Athens, Ohio.

David Halperin
Director, Campus Progress, and Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress

David joined the Center for American Progress in September 2004 to build Campus Progress, which was launched in February 2005. He previously was: a consultant and attorney, advising groups including Public Citizen, Greenpeace, and Democracy for America; senior policy advisor and speechwriter for Howard Dean's presidential campaign; founding executive director of the American Constitution Society; Special Assistant for National Security Affairs and speechwriter to President Bill Clinton ; fellow of the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society; legal and policy advisor to Ralph Nader; solo legal practitioner and legal associate to Professor Laurence Tribe; co-founder of Progressive Networks (now RealNetworks); counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee; law clerk to U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell; research assistant to Robert McNamara; and research analyst at the Arms Control Association. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, National Law Journal, Foreign Policy, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, etc. He graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School.

Rosanna Herrera
Events Manager

Rosanna Herrera is a 2007 graduate of Vassar College, where she majored in Sociology and minored in Hispanic Studies. While at Vassar, she lobbied for sex education in New York public schools, brought various speakers and entertainment acts to campus, and worked at an afterschool program. Rosanna interned at a nonprofit in New York that provides services to low-income families and also at an NGO in Brazil that seeks to empower young women through education.

Cord Jefferson
Associate Editor, CampusProgress.org

Cord Jefferson has been a pro soccer player in Tijuana, a kidney donor in Saudi Arabia and left for dead in Italy. Throughout it all he's also done writing and editing for National Geographic, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, The Root, Filter, GIANT and various other publications. His comedy writing has appeared on MTV, but he'll never tell you to what show he contributed. And though he received his degree in sociology from the College of William and Mary in 2004, he's only just recently gotten his father off his back about law school.

Paula-Raye O'Sullivan
Events Associate

Paula comes to Campus Progress from the Disney Event Group where she coordinated events for Disney Executives across the Walt Disney Company. She previously worked as a field representative on the Obama for America campaign as well as an Assistant Event Planner for Harvard Law School Events Office. During her undergraduate career at Harvard College, she contributed to campus social life through a slew of successful events aimed at promoting cultural understanding between Caribbean and African-American student populations and the greater campus community. Her passion for events extends to her personal activities, in which she serves as the Logistics Manager on the annual Taste of the Caribbean Summer Festival in Orlando, FL.

Erin Rosa
Associate Editor, CampusProgress.org

Erin was born in Spain and grew up in the United States. Before working with Campus Progress she was a scribe for The Colorado Independent, where her reports on federal prisons were honored by the national Newspaper Guild-CWA. While attending Metropolitan State College of Denver to study linguistics Erin's journalism spurred a variety of government investigations and reforms, not to mention a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado. Her work has been featured in the Columbia Journalism Review, The Huffington Post and on American Forces Radio. Erin loves investigative reporting and finding documents nobody knows about.

Drew Seman
Online Communications Associate

Before joining Campus Progress, Drew was a media buyer at Mundy Katowitz Media. Previously, he worked on Tammy Duckworth’s Congressional Campaign in 2006 and ran a start up PAC called Immigrants’ List. Drew received a B.A. in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago and a Master's in Political Management from The George Washington University. His friends will claim that he tries harder than he should at fantasy hockey.

Madhuri Singh
Civil Rights Organizer

Prior to joining Campus Progress in 2006, Madhuri interned with Senator Evan Bayh and Congressman Joe Crowley, worked as a consultant for the nationally-recognized Detroit non-profit Focus: HOPE, and traveled to India to study the impact of globalization on local artisans and later to raise awareness about tobacco use among youth. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she founded the South Asian Progressive Alliance and helped revive the Students of Color Coalition. She was heavily involved in organizing around issues of civil rights, social justice and students’ rights on campus. She received her B.B.A. from Michigan’s Ross School of Business, concentrating in Corporate Strategy and International Business, with a minor in Political Science. Madhuri is currently studying law at American University.

David Spett
Campus Publications Associate

David is a 2008 graduate of Northwestern University who's a bit embarrassed to admit he grew up in New Jersey. He comes to Campus Progress from Harrisburg, Pa., where he worked as a political reporter for a variety of newspapers and a web site. He enjoys journalism, politics, technology and going outdoors. Besides the members of Campus Progress' network, which are tied for his favorite publication, he enjoys the New York Times, the New Yorker and Gawker.

Kay Steiger
Editor, CampusProgress.org

Kay has written for The American Prospect, In These Times, The Guardian, Jezebel, and Bitch as well as guest blogged for TAPPED and The Atlantic. She was formerly an editorial assistant at The American Prospect. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in journalism.

Tobin Van Ostern
Network Associate

Tobin Van Ostern is the Network Associate for Campus Progress. Tobin is a recent graduate of The George Washington University where he received a B.A. in International Affairs. While in college, Tobin was the National Director of the student wing of the Obama for America campaign –Students for Barack Obama– as well as a National Co-Chair of the campaign. In this capacity, he helped lead Students for Barack Obama from its initial launch with twenty chapters to over 1,000 chapters nationally by Election Day in 2008. Tobin enjoys combining his interests in politics and technology in order to better engage young adults in the political process.

Vincent Villano
Events Associate

Vincent is a 2008 graduate of American University, where he studied Political Science and Education. As an undergraduate, Vincent focused on LGBT advocacy and education through his work with the American University GLBTA Resource Center recruiting and training students for the Rainbow Speakers Bureau. Most recently, Vincent interned with Renna Communications, a public interest communications firm that works exclusively with LGBT non-profits. As a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, Vincent has focused his research on social justice education, diversity, and intergroup relations. In his other life, Vincent is an avid Heroes fan despite its downward spiral in season 2. On the weekends, he can be found dancing in fine local institutions like the Black Cat and DC9.

Erica Williams
Senior Adviser

Erica is deputy director of Progress 2050 at the Center for American Progress and senior adviser to Campus Progress. She previously served as Campus Progress's deputy director and policy & advocacy manager. While full-time at Campus Progress, Erica played a central role in building an effective national and local advocacy program, strengthened coalition relations, made numerous media appearances, and helped guide Campus Progress's central operations. Before joining Campus Progress / CAP, Erica served as a field associate at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights where she worked with some of Washington’s most powerful players in progressive politics, implementing and coordinating strategies to galvanize grassroots support & activity in over 45 states for effective civil and human rights legislation at the federal level. She coordinated grassroots campaigns around judicial nominations, affirmative action, and the successful reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. She also focused on the LCCREF Media & Telecommunications Project, helping the national civil rights community play a central role in the policy debates shaping the nation’s media and communications landscape. Her work at LCCR was divided amongst various other social justice projects including the campaign to secure voting representation for the District of Columbia and pursuing effective federal hate crimes legislation. Erica is a native Washingtonian and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in African American Studies and Public Policy.