"Yolanda is an organizer and strategist with 10 years' experience supporting progressive media and arts projects, developing high-impact campaigns, building coalitions, and producing large-scale events. As a founding staffer and Outreach Director of the national media policy organization Free Press, she produced four installations of the high-profile National Conference for Media Reform, built the organization's field program, developed multimedia outreach materials, and ran successful policy campaigns including the Stop Big Media campaign. In the 2008 election cycle, she helped start and run Vote Today Ohio, a get-out-the-vote campaign for new and unlikely voters. Yolanda's prior work includes positions at the Independent Media Institute and the DC public affairs firm Bass & Howes. She now lives in Oakland, CA and maintains a freelance consulting practice. "
