Board & Staff

Jennifer Bonardi is the Executive Director of the Ford Hall Forum, the nation's oldest continuously operating free public lecture series. Prior to her tenure at the Forum, she worked in development at the Somerville Homeless Coalition, AIDS Action Committee and Hearth. Outside of Boston, she organized various communities around campaign finance reform through her work at The Greenlining Institute for minority economic rights and Democracy Matters, where she served as the Associate Director.

After 30 years in the field, organizational development consultant Judy Hatcher is still passionate about community organizing and grassroots activism for social justice. Previous employers include the Environmental Support Center, the Center for Community Change, Amnesty International USA and the Funding Exchange.

Marc S. Miller has known about and supported RESIST since its founding. He joined the Board because he felt that the type of funding RESIST offered was crucial to grassroots activism. Part of his political efforts over the years have been through his work as a writer and editor, particularly the eight years he was at Southern Exposure magazine and its publisher, the Institute for Southern Studies, which grew out of the Civil Rights Movement.

Greg Pehrson was part of the founding team and the first Executive Director of Fuerza Laboral, a Rhode-Island based immigrant worker organizing organization that is a longterm RESIST grantee. He retired from directorship in 2010 and currently consults with community organizations on direct action, leadership development and white privilege and performs songs and stories for the movement.

Ragini Shah is a Clinical Professor at Suffolk University Law School where she directs the Immigration Law Clinic representing detained immigrants with criminal convictions facing deportation. She is also active in the Boston based South Asians for Progressive Action (SAPA) and South Asian American Theater (SAATh).