On-the-Ground Staff

Rallie Murray 
Canvass Director
Santa Cruz, CA

Rallie Murray attended UC Santa Cruz, where she studied Cultural Anthropology and Classical Studies. Her last quarter was spent as a volunteer translator and coordinator with a local labor organization. Upon graduation, her burning desire to continue organizing led her to a Craigslist ad to work for Grassroots Campaigns with Equality California, and was Lead Field Manager of the Door campaign. She became an Assistant Director in the Santa Cruz office in the fall of 2009, working with Amnesty International on a campaign to fight violence against women. 

In 2010 she ran the Cincinnati Repower America office, and was dropped into the jungles of Ohio with a car full of paperwork and a hunger for progressive change. Training a motley crew of activists, many of whom had not had the opportunity to go to college, showed her the real importance of the work that Grassroots Campaigns does – many of the people she worked with did not know that they could write letters to their Senators demanding action on issues that they care about. Upon her return to Santa Cruz in the summer of 2010, she stepped into the role of Canvass Director to run the ACLU, EQCA, and OxFam America campaigns. Currently she is building a community of activists in sunny Santa Cruz, working to build better futures for kids everywhere with Save the Children.

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