CALPIRG Staff

Laura Deehan is the Organizing Director for CALPIRG Student Chapters. In that role she oversees CALPIRG's campus organizers, who are responsible for recruiting, training and developing student leaders to run successful campaigns. Laura got started with CALPIRG as a student intern at UC Davis in 1998, coordinating the student campaign against hunger and homelessness.

She joined staff as a WashPIRG campus organizer in 2002, helping run successful efforts to reduce mercury pollution from the state's waterways, fight poverty in Seattle, and ban the dumping of nuclear waste in Hanford, Washington. She returned to CALPIRG as staff in 2005 and has helped to register 40,000 new voters since 2006. Laura works out of our San Francisco office.