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GARTH HARRIES

President and CEO
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MIRELLISE VAZQUEZ

Vice President of Investment
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ADRIANA ARREOLA JOSEPH

Chief Administrative Officer
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MELVIN MEDINA

Vice President of Advocacy and External Affairs
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MATHIAS BURNER

Manager of Mobilization and Field Strategy
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JONATHAN CABRAL

Director
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HILLARY DESIDERAGGIO

Field Organizer
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BRALEY DODSON

Content Strategist
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ELLEN FUGATE

Data Manager
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MEGHAN HOLDEN

Director of Marketing and Communications
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CONNOR LAWSON

Field Organizer
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MERCEDES MACALPINE

Invest Program Officer
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TYLER MACK

TYLER MACK

Policy and Advocacy Strategist
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KARISSA MUÑIZ

Digital Media and Branding Strategist
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CHELUM OKORO

Analyst
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COURTNEY MCNALLY PARKERSON

Director
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AMY PLOCINIK

Senior Operations Coordinator
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KATE REEVES

Director
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BRIGITH RIVERA

Field Organizer
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FELIX RODRIGUEZ

Field Organizer
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CORALYS SANTANA

Campaign Manager
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NYNOSHKA SEGARRA

Administrative Assistant
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SANA SHAH

Director of Policy and Advocacy
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Our Mission

The Connecticut Project brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity. 

Our Vision

We believe in a Connecticut where it’s possible for everyone to thrive. We envision a fair, thriving Connecticut where working class people from every race, gender, income, and geography can afford and access opportunity.

What We Do

We get things done. We identify, fight for, and build bold, lasting solutions that enable people to create secure futures instead of being stuck in broken systems. We bring people and partners together to fight for policies that hold our state accountable to working class people and improve their lives. We deliver real results that people feel.

Who We Are

The Connecticut Project consists of two independent, distinct, and separately funded and governed organizations: The Connecticut Project, a 501c3 public charity, and The Connecticut Project Action Fund, a 501c4 advocacy organization. This allows us the greatest flexibility in our work and enables us the best leverage to build opportunity with and for working class people in our state.

 

Our Values

 

Freedom
Every person, from every background and circumstance, should have the freedom to build a good life and be themselves. 

Fairness
Everyone, from every background and circumstance, should have a fair chance to thrive, with fair access to child care, housing, democracy, financial freedom, and other essentials.

Hard Work
Our state should recognize the hard work of working class people by making Connecticut a place everyone can afford to call home.

Respect
Everyone in our diverse state should be treated with dignity, including by our government. Connecticut should respect the contributions of working class people – to our economy, our culture, and our state as a whole.

Community
By coming together as neighbors across our state, we can build a Connecticut where opportunity is real for everyone – in each of our 169 diverse communities, and in our whole state.

 

Learn more about our early days (and what's next) in our 2024 Inaugural Report:

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Our Boards

The Connecticut Project Action Fund

  • Kica Matos, President, National Immigration Law Center
  • Larry Fox, Former Labor Leader; Organizational Change Consultant
  • Jesse MacLachlan, Director of State Policy and Advocacy, Reason for Hope
  • Susan Mandel, Zoom Foundation

The Connecticut Project

  • Stephen Mandel, Zoom Foundation; Founder, Lone Pine Capital
  • Kerwin Charles, Indra K. Nooyi Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management, Yale School of Management
  • Britt-Marie Cole-Johnson, Partner, Robinson & Cole
  • Tiffany Donelson, CEO, The Connecticut Health Foundation
  • David Lehman, Managing Partner, HPS Investment Partners
  • Susan Mandel, Zoom Foundation
  • Kica Matos, President, National Immigration Law Center

Careers

For career opportunities with The Connecticut Project, click here