Our Leadership

Lilly Adams

CALPIRG State Board Executive Committee Chair, UC Berkeley Chapter Chair
Lilly is a first year Society and the Environment major at UC Berkeley, hailing from Seattle.

Nicole Allen

Affordable Textbooks Advocate
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Nicole Allen is the Textbook Advocate and director of the Make Textbooks Affordable project.

Laura Deehan

Organizing Director
Laura Deehan is the Organizing Director for CALPIRG Student Chapters.

Donna Farvard

State Board Executive Committee Secretary, UC Davis Chapter Chair
Donna is a sophomore at UC Davis studying NPB (Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior).

Sujatha Jahagirdar

Political Director
Sujatha Jahagirdar is the Political Director and an expert on young voter participation.

David Mittelstein

State Board Executive Committee At-Large Memeber, USC Chapter Chair
David studies at USC and has been involved in CALPIRG for two years. He started on the campaign to pass national healthcare reform.

Theodore Porges-Kyriakou

UC Riverside Chapter Chair
Theodore is a sophomore at UC Riverside studying biochemistry.

Emily Rusch

State Director
State Director Emily Rusch has worked with U.S.PIRG, the federation of state PIRGs, since 2001.

Ethan Senack

Higher Education Advocate
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Ethan Senack is the Student PIRGs Higher Education Advocate in Washington D.C. He works to bring student voices to the Capitol on behalf of college affordability programs.

Spencer Pritchard

State Board Executive Committee Treasurer, UC Berkeley Chapter Board Member
Spencer is a first year at UC Berkeley who hails from Santa Barbara, California. He's been quoted in the Huffington Post, lobbied in Sacramento, and helped to pass a plastic bag ban in Alameda County.

Ed Mierzwinski

National Consumer Program Director
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Ed Mierzwinski is the national Consumer Program Director.