Meet the Team

  • Maxim Thorne

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (He/Him)

    Bio

  • Erin Barnhart

    CHIEF OF ORGANIZING, ADVOCACY & LEARNING (She/Her)

    Bio

  • Anna Cubbage

    ORGANIZER AT-LARGE (She/Her)

    Bio

  • Cornell Duckworth

    ORGANIZER AT-LARGE (He/Him)

    Bio

  • Audrey Ferguson

    Co-CHIEF, ORGANIZING (She/Her)

    Bio

  • Elise Orlick

    STAKEHOLDER ADVISOR (She/Her)

    Bio

  • Alberto Vazquez

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (He/HIm)

    Bio

Meet the Board Of Directors

  • Elizabeth Ricci

    CHAIR

  • Vivian Polak

    VICE CHAIR

  • Rabbi Jan R. Uhrbach

    SECRETARY

  • Sheryl Carter

  • Monica Graham

  • Jason Lightning

  • Bruce Spiva

  • Ari Weinstein

  • Charles Whitaker

Meet the Blue Ribbon Committee


The Civic Influencers Blue Ribbon Committee convenes biannually to engage youth influencers and staff in reflecting on the strategy, implementation, challenges, and successes of the Tipping Point Index (TPI) scorecard and Student Voting Heat Maps. Comprising diverse professionals from various backgrounds and industries — and including every sitting member of the Board — the Committee fosters cross-pollinated thinking to enhance our intersectional pro-democracy movement among young people. Committed to safeguarding and advancing democracy for youth, its members include creatives, scientists, technologists, business and NGO leaders, as well as media and political experts.

  • Richard Albert

    Professor of World Constitutions & Director of Constitutional Studies — University of Texas, Austin

  • Rachel Bitecofer, Ph.D.

    Political Strategist

  • Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin

    Professor of Journalism, Columbia College Chicago

  • Ralph C. Dawson

    Lawyer, Labor & Employment

  • Antoinette Ellis-Williams

    Chair & Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies — New Jersey City University

  • Michelle Francis

    Intellectual Property Lawyer

  • Marybeth Gasman

    Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education — Associate Dean for Research, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University

  • Tyler Hallmark

    Program Associate, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

  • Theresa Hernandez

    Assistant Director, First Generation Office & Live-In Fellow, Dartmouth College

  • Dennis R. Holmes, M.D.

    Surgeon & Medical Director, Breast Program, Adventist Health, California

  • Chantilly Jaggernauth

    Vice President of Data Visualization and Training, Lovelytics

  • Cameron Koffman

    Community Activist

  • Peter Levine

    Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs — Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University

  • Jim Margard

    Investment Manager (Retired)

  • Bill McClain

    Co-founder, Clean & Prosperous America

  • Michael Peshkin

    Allen K. & Johnnie Cordell Breed Senior Professor of Design, School of Engineering, Northwestern University

  • Nadya Ramsaroop

    Licensed Psychologist

  • Nicholas Roman Lewis

    Entertainment Attorney

  • Mateo Romero

    Contemporary Cochiti Pueblo Artist

  • Reggie Van Lee

    Partner & Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

  • Phill Wilson

    Founder, Black AIDS Institute