Danielle Atkinson

Danielle Atkinson has extensive experience as a church-based, electoral, and community organizer. She has worked with organizations such as America Votes, State Voices, Population Connection and ACORN. In 2012, Atkinson founded Mothering Justice, a leadership development and advocacy organization. Atkinson has led organizing efforts to raise the minimum wage in both Florida and Michigan. Mothering Justice also led the fight to get earned paid sick time in Michigan. Her work organizing mothers won her the 2013 Michigan Organizer of the Year Award. Atkinson received bachelor’s degrees in political science and sociology from Pfeiffer University and lives in Royal Oak, Michigan, with her husband Frank and their six children.

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Lindsey Willow Smith​

Lindsey Willow Smith is an enrolled citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and recent graduate of the University of Michigan, class of '22. She is now employed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian as a researcher for an upcoming exhibition on Jingle Dress dancing, a radical feminist tradition beginning in Ojibwe communities in the late 1910s that first permitted women to enter the center of the powwow circle.