Jan Perry
Jan Perry is currently a candidate for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors having previously served as LA City Councilwoman for the residents Downtown, Little Tokyo and South LA. During her 12-year tenure, she brought in $15 billion in investment, $52 million in net new tax revenue for the City of Los Angeles, and approximately 90,000 full-time jobs. Perry’s years in office also saw the development of more than 5,670 units of supportive housing to shelter the homeless and people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse.
Ms. Perry currently serves as the executive director of the Infrastructure Funding Alliance, a national initiative to meet future infrastructure, economic development, and environmental challenges.
Diversity & Today’s Women Campaigns
Racial and Ethnic Diversity : Women of Color Campaigning in the Era of Social Justice/ Effects of Systemic Racism
Jan Perry is currently a candidate for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors having previously served as LA City Councilwoman for the residents Downtown, Little Tokyo and South LA. During her 12-year tenure, she brought in $15 billion in investment, $52 million in net new tax revenue for the City of Los Angeles, and approximately 90,000 full-time jobs. Perry’s years in office also saw the development of more than 5,670 units of supportive housing to shelter the homeless and people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse.
Ms. Perry currently serves as the executive director of the Infrastructure Funding Alliance, a national initiative to meet future infrastructure, economic development, and environmental challenges.
Diversity & Today’s Women Campaigns
Racial and Ethnic Diversity : Women of Color Campaigning in the Era of Social Justice/ Effects of Systemic Racism
Angelica Ramos-Allen
Angelica Ramos-Allen is one of NWPC’s bright stars, an NWPC certified from the tech capital of the world: Silicon Valley, CA. As a political consultant with a 95% winning average, she has a reputation for taking on campaigns that became the upset of the year. (Silicon Valley has been a tough place for women’s equality efforts). Her career includes helping women wherever they need assistance: being a CA-certified mediator and rape crisis counselor, a court appointed special advocate (CASA) with Child Advocates of Silicon Valley, Law Facilitator for at risk youth with Fresh Lifelines for Youth, and a Fellow with the Children's Defense Fund.
She is also the current re-founding President of the National Women's Political Caucus of Silicon Valley and is dedicated to gender parity at all levels of leadership. She now serves as Santa Clara Supervisor Susan Ellenberg's Policy Director (a candidate she helped overcome a 5 to 1 spending difference from her opponent).
Social Media/Technology: The Winning Edge
Best Practices/ Campaign Staff Training/Survival
Open Microphone: Questions and Answers to our Trainers
Angelica Ramos-Allen is one of NWPC’s bright stars, an NWPC certified from the tech capital of the world: Silicon Valley, CA. As a political consultant with a 95% winning average, she has a reputation for taking on campaigns that became the upset of the year. (Silicon Valley has been a tough place for women’s equality efforts). Her career includes helping women wherever they need assistance: being a CA-certified mediator and rape crisis counselor, a court appointed special advocate (CASA) with Child Advocates of Silicon Valley, Law Facilitator for at risk youth with Fresh Lifelines for Youth, and a Fellow with the Children's Defense Fund.
She is also the current re-founding President of the National Women's Political Caucus of Silicon Valley and is dedicated to gender parity at all levels of leadership. She now serves as Santa Clara Supervisor Susan Ellenberg's Policy Director (a candidate she helped overcome a 5 to 1 spending difference from her opponent).
Social Media/Technology: The Winning Edge
Best Practices/ Campaign Staff Training/Survival
Open Microphone: Questions and Answers to our Trainers
Melissa Vincett
Currently the Campaign Manager for North Dakota Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate Shelley Lenz, Melissa has managed over a dozen campaigns and field efforts in California, Washington, North Dakota, and Canada. One of the youngest of our NWPC trainers, Melissa is sought after by candidates as she naturally attracts the best volunteers, gets vendors energetic and supportive, and picks up her phone and makes fundraising part of her job. She’s run races for state legislative candidates, statewide, labor, environmental and issue campaigns.
She was named one of the “40 Under 40” leaders in the Puget Sound Business Journal, been a graduate of both the AFL-CIO’s Organizer School, the University of Ottawa’s “Management on a Daily Basis”, Wellstone Institute’s campaign program, and a grant writer for Seattle’s Center for Women & Democracy, in addition to having her bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
Best Practices/ Campaign Staff Training/Survival
Open Microphone: Questions and Answers to our Trainers
Currently the Campaign Manager for North Dakota Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate Shelley Lenz, Melissa has managed over a dozen campaigns and field efforts in California, Washington, North Dakota, and Canada. One of the youngest of our NWPC trainers, Melissa is sought after by candidates as she naturally attracts the best volunteers, gets vendors energetic and supportive, and picks up her phone and makes fundraising part of her job. She’s run races for state legislative candidates, statewide, labor, environmental and issue campaigns.
She was named one of the “40 Under 40” leaders in the Puget Sound Business Journal, been a graduate of both the AFL-CIO’s Organizer School, the University of Ottawa’s “Management on a Daily Basis”, Wellstone Institute’s campaign program, and a grant writer for Seattle’s Center for Women & Democracy, in addition to having her bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
Best Practices/ Campaign Staff Training/Survival
Open Microphone: Questions and Answers to our Trainers
Kim Wyman
Kim Wyman is Washington State’s 15th Secretary of State. First elected in 2012, she is serving her second term and is only the second female Secretary of State in Washington’s history. Prior to being elected to this office, Kim served as Thurston County Elections Director for nearly a decade and was elected Thurston County Auditor from 2001-2013.
Secretary Wyman’s responsibilities include overseeing elections, the Washington State Library, the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, the Washington State Archives, and many special programs.
Secretary Wyman has taken a much-needed lead in the response to those who seek to oppose or stop voting by mail. She is seen as a “trusted source” by all parties and the press, and has stood up to President Trump about the safety, accuracy and non-corrupted history of voter fraud. A leader in the nation’s elections administrators, she helped lead the way for Washington State’s in implementing such voter requests for same day registration on Election Day, early voting by mail, no require stamps on ballot return envelopes, many accessible ballot drop boxes to place your ballot, and easing the process for military ballot return and voting.
Campaign Voter Contact/The Targeting Advantages
Kim Wyman is Washington State’s 15th Secretary of State. First elected in 2012, she is serving her second term and is only the second female Secretary of State in Washington’s history. Prior to being elected to this office, Kim served as Thurston County Elections Director for nearly a decade and was elected Thurston County Auditor from 2001-2013.
Secretary Wyman’s responsibilities include overseeing elections, the Washington State Library, the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, the Washington State Archives, and many special programs.
Secretary Wyman has taken a much-needed lead in the response to those who seek to oppose or stop voting by mail. She is seen as a “trusted source” by all parties and the press, and has stood up to President Trump about the safety, accuracy and non-corrupted history of voter fraud. A leader in the nation’s elections administrators, she helped lead the way for Washington State’s in implementing such voter requests for same day registration on Election Day, early voting by mail, no require stamps on ballot return envelopes, many accessible ballot drop boxes to place your ballot, and easing the process for military ballot return and voting.
Campaign Voter Contact/The Targeting Advantages