Canvassing Works

Philip D. Radford, Greenpeace, Executive Director

Philip D. Radford is the Executive Director for Greenpeace.  Mr. Radford got an early start in the public interest movement, working as a Fund canvasser for Illinois PIRG while in high school.  He directed canvass offices during college over the course of three different summers and canvassed part-time during the school year.  Mr. Radford started a Free the Planet! chapter on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied political science and business.  Upon graduation, he joined Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing, as a lead organizer between 1998 and 1999.  Mr. Radford then took a position as Field Director for Ozone Action, planning and running a number of campaigns, including the Global Warming 2000 campaign responsible for flipping Senator McCain into a hero on global warming.  In 2001, he founded Power Shift, which convinced 12 cities to invest in clean energy and energy efficiency and persuaded Citigroup to create new ways of financing clean energy to make solar and wind affordable to more Americans.  Mr. Radford then served briefly as a Partner with Clean Edge Inc., the clean technology authority, before joining Greenpeace as the Grassroots Director.  Mr. Radford graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998 and has received an Executive Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Georgetown University.

Carrie Doyle, Western Energy Project, Campaign Director (former Colorado Conservation Voters, Executive Director)

"Ninety percent of the skills I’ve needed to be an effective lobbyist and executive director I learned as a canvasser."  Carrie Doyle

Carrie Doyle is the Executive Director of Colorado Conservation Voters, which was founded in 1998 with the sole purpose of electing environmental candidates to state and local offices.  Between 2004 and 2006, Ms. Doyle served as the environmental community lobbyist for the Colorado Environmental Coalition.  Prior to joining CEC, Carrie worked with the League of Conservation Voters where she ran programs to increase voter turnout, train environmental leaders, and foster strategic environmental campaigns throughout the Southwest.  Ms. Doyle began working on public interest issues as a summer canvasser for the Fund in 1988 and 1989, while she attended college.  After graduating from Stanford University in 1990, Ms. Doyle joined the Fund’s full time staff as a canvass director in Santa Barbara.  She continued to direct offices in Miami and then Atlanta until 1992, when she became the National Canvass Administrative Assistant.  In 1995, Ms. Doyle moved back to Santa Barbara to become the Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of the Fund, a position she held for five years.  Her final position with the Fund and the PIRGs was as the Alumni Organizer.  After leaving the PIRGs, Ms. Doyle worked on campaigns around a WA statewide transit ballot campaign and to protect roadless areas in Colorado.  In 2003 Carrie was named Sierra Club ' s Professional Activist of the Year and in 2006 was nominated by Governor Owens to the Wildlife Habitat Stamp Committee.

Susannah Lindberg-Randolph, Deputy District Director, Congressman Alan Grayson (former Clean Water Action, Florida Program Coordinator)

Susannah Lindberg-Randolph is the Florida Program Coordinator for Clean Water Action, where she supervises environmental and democracy issues for the organization as well as working with Clean Water Action’s Political Action Committee to get pro-environment candidates elected to local, state, and federal offices She recently founded a next-generation Florida environmental leadership coalition called "Green Behind the Ears," which she hopes will strengthen the effectiveness and clout of the Florida environmental community. Ms. Lindberg-Randolph has been a community organizer and public interest advocate since 1992. During her four years at Florida State University, Ms. Lindberg-Randolph chaired the statewide board of directors for Florida PIRG. After graduation, Susannah worked as a State PIRG campaign organizer and Fund canvass director, where she taught young people how to be involved in their democracy. While with the PIRGs, Susannah worked on campaign finance reform and clean air campaigns, as well as the National Forests Roadless Rule, and preservation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She ran door-to-door, voter outreach campaigns in Tallahassee, Miami, St. Louis, MO, and Hyannis, MA. During the summer of 2000, Susannah directed the largest petition office in the country for the Roadless Forest Campaign where she and her staff gathered over 65,000 signatures in Miami and South Florida. Early that next year, President Clinton enacted the Roadless Rule to protect our national forests. In 2001, she became the Executive Director of the Wildlife Advocacy Project, which focused on achieving protections for the West Indian Manatee in coastal areas throughout Florida.

Ben Prochazka, Colorado Environmental Coalition, Lobbyist (former Save Darfur Coalition, Campaign Manager)

Ben Prochazka is the Campaign Manager of the Save Darfur Coalition, an alliance of over 100 faith-based, humanitarian and human rights organizations whose mission is to raise public awareness and to mobilize an effective unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of two million people in the Darfur region.  Mr. Prochazka began his public interest career in 1997 as a canvasser and then a canvass director for the Fund.  He directed canvass offices in Virginia Beach, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Berkeley, Eugene, Pasadena, and Washington D.C. until becoming an Econference organizer in 2000 in Philadelphia.  Mr. Prochazka then became Ecopledge’s organizer for the western region, and, from 2001 to 2003, served as the Western States Field Organizer for U.S. PIRG.  In 2004, he became the Colorado State Director for the State PIRGs’ New Voters Project, through which nationally we registered 524,000 young voters and made 500,000 Get Out The Vote contacts with students in 22 states, including 48,000 contacts on Election Day alone.  Mr. Prochazka attended the University of Illinois.

Jon Goldin-Dubois, Common Cause, Executive Vice President

“Through the canvass I learned important political skills that I use every day. Canvassing teaches activists or anyone who cares about an issue how to communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds, how to make smart, quick decisions and how to build support and raise resources for campaigns. Canvassing is hard work, but I guarantee you’ll be glad you did it.”  Jon Goldin-Dubois

Jon Goldin-Dubois is the Executive Vice President of Common Cause and is responsible for managing the operations of Common Cause, including creating the structures and systems that will allow Common Cause to become a catalyst to fundamentally change the face of our democracy, build winning campaigns by increasing financial resources and other means, improving communications throughout the organization and effectively managing organizational resources. Mr. Goldin-Dubois joined the staff at Common Cause in 1997, serving as the executive director of Colorado Common Cause, specializing in the areas of ethics in government, open meetings and campaign finance reform.  Jon has also served in a variety of other capacities during his tenure at Common Cause, including Vice President of States and redistricting team leader.  Prior to joining the Common Cause staff, Jon was an environmental organizer and advocate with Colorado PIRG working on campaigns to strengthen air quality standards, pass laws to increase recycling, prevent rollbacks of environmental regulations and protect open spaces.  Jon began his career with PIRG in 1989 as a Fund canvasser in Denver, Colorado and was a CoPIRG campus organizer at Metro State College in Denver.  During his PIRG career, Jon directed summer canvasses in Ft. Collins and in Denver, was regional director of the Colorado summer canvasses and organizing director, working with staff and students on five Colorado campuses.  Jon also served as environmental program director before leaving PIRG in 1997.  Jon graduated from the University of Denver in 1988 and holds a master's degree in public administration from the University of Colorado at Denver.

Cassandra McKee, USAction, Deputy Campaigns Director (now Field Director)

“The Fund is an organization born from a long history of grassroots organizing. Working as a canvasser with the Fund gave me the skills and experience for a career building grassroots outreach to win critical public interest campaigns.”  Cassandra McKee

Cassandra McKee is the Deputy Campaigns Director for USAction, a national progressive political organization, and USAction Education Fund (USAEF).  Cassandra directs the USAction/USAEF national field operation for campaigns such as social and health security, fair taxes and civil justice.  She supervises a staff of 10, including seven senior field managers who provide support and technical assistance to USAction’s affiliates and partners in 26 states.  Last year Cassandra’s work contributed to the successful defeat of the President’s plan to privatize Social Security.  Before joining the USAction staff in 2002, Cassandra was the Director of Grassroots Advocacy for the National Network for Youth where she managed legislative advocacy and implemented grassroots campaigns for a national network of youth advocates.  She began her organizing career as a Fund canvasser while in college, and upon graduation in 1997, as a New Jersey PIRG campus organizer, roles that provided her with practical experience in voter education, community outreach and leadership development.  Cassandra has a degree in Women’s Studies from Drew University and serves on the board of Calvary Women’s Services, a non-profit organization that provides housing and supportive services to homeless women in Washington, D.C.