The People's Summit

The People's Summit Speakers

June 9-11 2017 • Chicago, IL

June 9-11 2017 • Chicago, IL

Naomi Klein

Author/Social Activist

RoseAnn DeMoro

Executive Director of NNU

Bernie Sanders

Senator from Vermont

Shaun King

Journalist / Social entrepreneur

Nina Turner

Former State Senator and Sanders Campaign Surrogate

Linda Sarsour

Executive Director of MPOWER Change/Racial Justice and Civil Rights Activist

Wallace Shawn

Actor

Frances Fox Piven

CUNY Graduate Center, Political Science Department Faculty

Van Jones

Human Rights Activist; Commentator, CNN

Shani Smith

Democracy Spring

Josh Fox

Emmy-winning writer/director of GASLAND Parts I and II

Jane Sanders

Educator

Rosario Dawson

Actress

Jesse Eisenberg

Actor

Eve Ensler

Playwright/Activist

Frances Fisher

Performer

Danny Glover

Actor, Producer and Humanitarian

Amy Goodman

Host, Democracy Now

Nomiki Konst

Journalist

Bill McKibben

Activist

Susan Pourfar

Actress

David Sirota

Journalist

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Editor, The Nation

Laura Gomez

Actress

Winnie Wong

Co-Founder, People for Bernie

Ro Khanna

Congressman

Lina Khan

New America

Gigi Sohn

Special Counsel FCC

David Segal

Director, Demand Progress

Belen Sisa

Activist Dreamer, Young Progressive Democrats of America

Melanie Garunay

Digital Organizing Director, ACLU

Marisa Franco

Director and Co-Founder of Mijente

Zack Malitz

Knock on Every Door

Otis Taylor

Zephyr Teachout

Author and Academic

Dominique Scott

Activist, Student, United Students Against Sweatshops

Jorge Aguilar

Southern Region Director, Food & Water Watch/Food & Water Action Fund

Bree Carlson

Deputy Director, People's Action

Mary Le Nguyen

Executive Director of Washington Community Action Network

Elisheva Johnson

Kalamazoo Membership Organizer, Michigan United/Michigan People's Campaign, People's Action

Michele Merkel

Climate & Energy Program Co-Director, Food & Water Watch/Food & Water Action Fund

Hong Chau

Actress

George Goehl

Co-Director, Peoples Action

Claire Sandberg

Co-Founder #AllOfUs, Digital Organizing Director, Bernie2016

Patty Lovera

Assistant Director of Food & Water Watch

Mark Schlosberg

Organizing Co-Director, Food & Water Watch / Food & Water Action Fund

David Hunt

Chief Strategist, Food & Water Watch / Food & Water Action Fund

Harmony Goldberg

Bertha Foundation & People's Action

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

President and CEO, Hip Hop Caucus

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Author

Judith Le Blanc

Director, Native Organizers Alliance

Heather Pearson

CCI Action

Rhonda Perry

Program Director, Missouri Rural Crisis Center

Alexandra Gallo

Development Director, West Virginia Citizen Action Group

Nick Tilsen

Executive Director, Thunder Valley CDC

Pam Campos-Palma

Executive Director, Common Defense (Beyond The Choir Action Fund)

Khalid

Councilman, City of South Fulton

Juan Martinez

Outreach Director, Greenpower

Charles Goodman

Polical Education Director, NAACP Atlantic City

Brenda Chorsei Carter

Director, Reflective Democracy Campaign

Laurel Wales

Deputy Director of Movement Politics, People's Action

Catherine Flowers

Director and founder of Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise

Nancy Altman

President of Social Security Works

Azzi Momenghalibaf

Program Officer, Open Society, Public Health Program

Maria Svart

National Director, Democratic Socialists of America

Thomas Frank

Historian, Author of Listen Liberal

Bianca Cunningham

Verizon Wireless Striker, CWA, DSA NYC

Mary Clinton

Organizer, CWA

Tomas Robles Jr.

Co-Executive Director, LUCHA

Shamaka Schumake

Climate Justice Organizer, Gulf Coast

Rev. Tony Pierce

Co-Senior Pastor, Heaven's View Christian Fellowship Church

Lashaya Darisaw

Organizer, Michigan United

Kelly Grimes

Reclaim Chicago

Larry Cohen

Board Chairman, Our Revolution

Diana Truong

Student Action

Joe DeManuelle-Hall

DSA Brooklyn

Ja’Mal Green

Activist

Melissa Tomlinson

Edcucator, Badass Teachers Association

Katherine Brezler

Educator, National Digital Director, People For Bernie

Aixa Rodriguez

Educator, Founder, Bronx Educators United for Justice

Maria Elena Letona

Executive Director, Neighbor to Neighbor Action & Vice President, People's Action

LeeAnn Hall

Co-Executive Director, Peoples Action

David Duhalde

National Deputy Director, Democratic Socialists of America

Rep. Joe Salazar

Colorado State Representative (House District 31)

Amanda Weaver

Executive Director, Reclaim Chicago

Carmen Perez

Executive Director, Justice League, National Co-Chair, Womens March

Sean Sweeney

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy

Larry Stafford

Executive Director, Progressive Maryland

Becky Bond

Knock on Every Door

Kendrick Sampson

Actor

Brian Jones

Actor

Kai Newkirk

Mission Director, Democracy Spring

Dante Barry

Director, Million Hoodies for Justice

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Host and Managing Editor, The Zero Hour

Tobita Chow

Board Chair, The People's Lobby

Dave Zirin

The Nation

Jovanka Beckles

Richmond City Councilmember

Sarah Leonard

Editor, The Nation

Roger Hickey

Co-founder of the Campaign for America's Future

Joe Dinkin

National Director of Communications, Working Families Party

Shannon Jackson

Excecutive Director, Our Revolution

Ben Jealous

Civil Rights Activist, Former President, NAACP

Hon. Mark Pocan

Congressman, 2nd District of Wisconsin

Lucy Flores

Former Nevada Assembly Woman

Jim Zogby

President, Arab-American Institute

Catalina Vasquez

Our Revolution Co-Vice Chair/President and founder of Consult Catalina

Commissioner Chuy Garcia

Cook County Board of Commissioners

Christine Pellegrino

NY State Assembly Woman

Jim Keady

Candidate, US House of Representatives, NJ04

Craig Hodges

Author, Retired Professional Basketball Player

Pramila Jayapal

Congresswoman

Larry Krasner

Democratic Nominee for Philadelphia District Attorney

Phillip Kim

Activist

Rob Quist

Politician / Folk Singer

Rukia Lumumba

Activist

Chokwe Lumumba

Mayor Elect of Jackson, Mississippi

Dallas Goldtooth

Indigenous Environmental Network