CONTACT US

We’ve moved! New address:

325 West Silver Spring Drive, 2nd Floor
Milwaukee, WI 53217
608-444-4992
info@wisaop.org

 

Staff

Rachel CritesRachel Crites, Executive Director
wisaop@earthlink.net

Rachel has been organizing and active in the social justice movement for the past 15 years. She began her career with the United Farm Workers where, over the course of four years, she worked on various local organizing projects in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. She then relocated to Chicago where she worked with a domestic violence shelter, and later with AFSCME Council 31, where she organized a variety of workers throughout Illinois, eventually becoming a lead organizer. She has also done additional project work for the Steelworkers in Colorado.

 

Talia Schank, Development & Program Coordinator
tschank@wisaop.org

Talia has worked in community activism for 14 years, starting as a community educator and trainer. This led to student and political organizing, where she worked on a number of electoral campaigns, both candidate and issue-based. She has previously worked with, among others, Planned Parenthood of WI, the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, Elaine Bloom for Congress (in South Florida), Holden for Governor (Missouri), the Sierra Club, and most recently, Fair Wisconsin.