On-the-Ground Staff

Francesca Villa  
Canvass Director
New York City, NY.

After studying women’s rights at Hamilton College, Francesca graduated with one goal, making a difference for the pro-choice movement.  Sitting in class debating maternal leave laws, gender-biased pay scale, and the third wave of feminism, Francesca knew that there was more to the women’s rights movement outside academia so she jumped at the chance to join Grassroots Campaigns as an Assistant Director in New York City. During the summer of 2010, she trained activists who campaigned for women’s reproductive rights with Planned Parenthood Federation of America while the healthcare debate unfolded on Capitol Hill.   After hundreds of conversations with pro-choice New Yorkers, she realized the only way to make tangible social change was at the grassroots level. Since working with Planned Parenthood, Francesca has expanded her horizons and campaigned for the environment, animal rights, and humanitarian causes.  Now as the Canvass Director of New York's residential outreach team she spends everyday inspiring new activists to campaign on behalf of progressive causes while changing hearts and minds, one door at a time.

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