Board of Directors
Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon got his first taste of political activism in the short-lived Wes Clark presidential primary campaign of 2004, organizing volunteer cell phone banks in New York and holding up a 10-foot Clark sign at a highway off-ramp in frigid New Hampshire. Read More
Chris Asta
Chris Asta got into politics by becoming an obsessive political blog-reader. Like many fellow “bloggers”, this led him to Ned Lamont’s senate campaign, on which he worked as a volunteer coordinator during both the insurgent primary and subsequent general election efforts in 2006. Read More
Heather Roberson
The Chair of the ACT NOW Board, Heather Roberson has been with the organization since its inception as an auxiliary to the national America Coming Together (ACT) in 2004. During that time, she moved to the battleground state of Ohio to volunteer for the ACT operations in Cincinnati, where she soon found herself in charge of a large and very energetic phone bank. Read More
Keith Powers
Born and raised in New York City, Keith Powers first got interested in social and political issues while in high school. Formerly the Vice President of the Manhattan Young Democrats, Keith worked with ACT NOW on numerous federal and state level campaigns before joining the Board in 2009. Read More
Lenny Braman
Lenny Braman has enjoyed talking politics with family, friends, and perfect strangers for as long as he can remember, and is glad to be talking politics as a member of ACT NOW’s Board of Directors. Read More
Communications
Kenan Rubenstein
Kenan’s first failure in his lifelong ambition of political apathy occurred in the fall of 2004 when he became entangled with America Coming Together in Pennsylvania. Read More
Board Emeriti
Over our six years together, we’ve had the fortune of working with some pretty exceptional people. They’ve made invaluable contributions to the development of ACT NOW. And they’ve been good friends. Just as New York brings incredible people from all over the world together, it has sent these folks off on new missions, both personal and professional. Many of them are working for a progressive future in other parts of the country. We’re grateful for their dedication to ACT NOW and proud of what they continue to do.
Andrew Weinstein
Andrew joined the nascent ACT New York in spring ‘04 as a volunteer focused on voter registration. He quickly became deeply involved as a Co-Director and was proud to be a founding Co-Director of ACT NOW in early ‘06. Read More
Margot Albert
Margot Albert first became politically active in the 2004 campaign, during which she traveled on weekends to Las Vegas to canvass with America Coming Together and was inspired upon discovering a groundswell of activism by people from all walks of life. Read More
Rachel Burd
Rachel Burd can only put her wildly diverse background under the heading of “freelance troublemaker.” She has been an organizer, a publicist, an advocate, and a grantwriter for unions, community groups, and labor-community coalitions, and the campaigns she has worked on have included health care, social services, workplace organizing drives, and the arts. Read More
Rebecca Schrag
Rebecca Schrag is a native Manhattanite who is fiercely loyal to the bluest part of this great blue state. She spent much of the summer and fall of 2004 attempting to spread blue-ness by phone banking to swing states and leading bus trips to Pennsylvania. Read More
