Adriana Barboza has been a trainer with Wellstone Action for almost 6 years, and is also our partnership manager. She was born in Jalisco, Mexico and grew up in the South Side of Chicago. Adriana began organizing while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Brian Cihacek can be described as a professional journeyman. Graduating from Saint John's University in 2008 with a degree in psychology, Brian figured his professional life would have been as a researcher in neuroscience, until he was deployed to Iraq with his National Guard unit for two years as a unit supply specialist.

Peggy Flanagan is a dynamic teacher, trainer, and community and political organizer who is enrolled in the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and is a member of the Maiingan Dodem (Wolf Clan). Peggy is our Director of External Affairs, and she also directs the Native American Leadership Program at Wellstone Action.

Sujata has two decades of experience with progressive and Democratic campaigns and organizations.  She has developed and directed electoral and issue advocacy campaigns and strategized with organizations and donors to lead them through critical junctures in development.

The child of political activists, Mattie has been doing direct action, community organizing and campaign work her entire life (including as an 11 year old doorknocker on Paul Wellstone's first Senate campaign). A 2001 graduate of Swarthmore College, she studied political science and organized students and staff around issues of global economic justice, local race politics, and a campus-based living wage campaign.