Pacific Northwest Regional Caucus
Starts: Thursday, Aug. 2 1:00 PM (Eastern)
Ends: Thursday, Aug. 2 2:00 PM (Eastern)
Join us to discuss how the Left Coast is resisting Trump and working for progressive change at the state and local level. We’ll talk about last year’s special election victory that flipped the Washington State Senate and preview the most important contests in the upcoming 2018 midterms, including the Oregon and Idaho gubernatorial races, Idaho Medicaid expansion, plus the WA-05, WA-03, WA-08, and OR-05 U.S. House races.
Moderators
Robert Cruickshank
Robert Cruickshank is the Senior Campaign Manager at Democracy for America, the member-driven PAC founded by Gov. Howard Dean that has successfully elected more than 800 progressive candidates to public office since 2004. Prior to joining DFA, he served as a Senior Advisor to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, and worked as Public Policy Director for California’s Courage Campaign. Originally from California, he now lives with his wife and young son in Seattle.
Andrew Villeneuve
Andrew Villeneuve is the founder of the Northwest Progressive Institute and its sibling, the Northwest Progressive Foundation. He serves in leadership roles in both organizations. NPI, founded in 2003, has an advocacy focus, powered by research, whereas NPF, formed in 2018, has an educational focus. NPI is organized as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization; NPF is organized as a 501(c)(3) charity.
Andrew has worked to advance progressive causes for over two decades as a strategist, speaker, author, and organizer. He is also a cybersecurity expert, veteran facilitator, a delegate to the Washington State Democratic Central Committee, and a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.
In recent years, besides leading NPI, Andrew has served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2012 for Barack Obama, an organizing fellow for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2013, and a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention for Bernie Sanders.
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