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GPP Staff Members
Our staff of four brings together over 100 years of organizing, network-building, designing workshops and strategy development and more. Our combined experiences give us multiple ties to social movements, including labor, community organizing, environmental and economic justice, identity-based movements and more.

  • Sandra Hinson is Co-Director. Sandra has been active in labor solidarity, reproductive rights, peace and justice work, economic and environmental justice networks and campaigns for universal health care. She received a Masters in Sociology from SUNY at Stony Brook. With GPP since 1994, Sandra has developed strategic planning and training materials as well as strategic analysis of healthcare, taxes and budget policies and other policy issues.
  • Richard Healey is Co-Director, as well as GPP's founder. In the 1970s, Richard was National Director of the New American Movement. Subsequently Richard has served as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies, the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy and Nuclear Times and was a founder of the Study Circle Resource Center. Richard received his Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard.
  • Alexa Bradley is an Associate Director. Alexa has worked as an organizer and activist for over 23 years on a wide range of social and economic justice issues. In the 1990s, Alexa co-directed the Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action, a multi-issue, labor-community coalition. In 1999, Alexa recieved a Bush Leadership Fellowship to research popular and political education as a tool in organizing and leadership development. Alexa brings her wide-ranging knowledge and experience with popular education into GPP's work to support movement-building in the United States.
  • Dave Mann is an Associate Director. Dave has been working with GPP for over four years on strategy development and planning programs. Dave has 30 years experience with issue and electoral campaigns, organization-building and strategy development. Dave helped found and eventually served as a Co-Director of the Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action, overlapping with Alexa Bradley. He subsequently co-facilitated the creation of TakeAction Minnesota. Dave has established relationships with numerous local and statewide networks, coalitions and faith-based groups as a consultant on strategy development and long-term planning.

GPP Board of Directors

  • Anne Bartley, Chair of the Board. Democracy Alliance and Rockefeller Family Fund
  • Charlotte Brody, Secretary. Commonweal Institute and Health Care Without Harm
  • Howard Croft. SEIU Home Healthcare Organizing
  • Kimberly Freeman. American Rights at Work
  • Richard Healey. Grassroots Policy Project
  • Charlotte Ryan. Movement Media Research and Action Project, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell.