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The STORY Board (above) is a team of young organizers, strategists and trainers who serve as an advisory board to the program and provide core leadership. STORY Board 'peeps also collaborate on curriculum, retreats, and partnerships..and strategically work to build movements for human rights, justice, democracy and our planet!

Marty Aranaydo is the director of IP3 (Indigenous Peoples Power Project), a program of the Ruckus Society in Oakland CA.

Lovella Calica organizes with Iraq Veterans Against the War from a place of love and hope for a more beautiful and just world. She also works with the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC), the National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth (NNOMY), and Not Your Soldier Project. Lovella is a poet, photographer and member of the mantra arts kollective in Philly.

Rodney Camarce is a community-based artist who is working to build social justice through poetry, mural making, and comic illustration. Currently, he is working for the mural arts program based in Philly and is a founding member of the mantra arts kollective. He is also an antiracism trainer with the Peoples’ Institute for Survival and Beyond.

Doyle Canning is a strategist, trainer, and organizer with a big imagination and a deep commitment to social change. As smartMeme co-director and founder of the STORY program, she often works in the field with youth-based and intergenerational grassroots organizations as a facilitator, trainer, coach, and strategy architect. Doyle also seves on the funding panel of the Haymarket Peoples’ Fund , practices ashtanga yoga, and sings with the official band of the Vermont Workers Center . Doyle belives in the potential of visionary narrative and people powered ideas. She lives in Burlington, Vermont with her Jack Russell Terrier.

Maryrose Dolezal is the national program coordinator of the U.S. Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Nonviolent Youth Collective. Maryrose travels nationally, speaking, training and facilitating with a team of youth facilitators at Peacemaker Training Institutes and national anti-oppression trainings. Maryrose believes that change always happens through relationships, that national organizing is most powerful when it supports grassroots organizing, and that the processes of our work will dictate the outcome. To this end, she is experimenting with nonviolence as an anti-racist white person. Maryrose serves on the board of Common Fire, lives in Minnesota, and is working on her MA in Nonprofit Management. Maryrose also serves as the STORY Board rep on the smartMeme Board of Directors.

Liana Foxvog is the national organizer for SweatFree Communities, a network of local coalitions organizing for worker rights and a just global economy. She is currently a member of AFSC's National Peacebuilding Executive Committee, and is working toward an M.S. in labor studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Liana also loves to dance.

Katie Joaquin worked with smartMeme as the STORY program youth fellow before joining the STORY board in November 2006. She lives in Oakland, California and works with East Bay Filipino Organizing Project to organize youth and students around the collective interests of Filipinos in the East Bay while supporting the popular movement for national democracy in the Philippines. Katie has interned with the School of Unity and Liberation and is currently an organizer with Filipinos For Affirmative Action.

Raul Matta is a student at Holyoke Community College in Mass., and youth fellow of the American Friends Service Committee. His work at AFSC focuses on Countering Military Recruitment through the Help Increase the Peace Project (HIPP). In 2005, Raul won the Ozzy Klate Memorial Youth Award, given by the Men’s Resource Center for his community work.

Shana McDavis-Conway is the interim-director of the Washington-based DC Hunger Solutions, and advocates for food justice. She was awarded a fellowship with the Congressional Hunger Center in 2003, and worked with the Hartford Food System, the National Family Farm Coalition, the Community Food Security Coalition and the Sacramento Hunger Commission.

Brie Phillips is on the Steering Committee for the Student/Farmworker Alliance, and joined the STORY board after partnering with STORY through work around the 2005 Taco Bell Boycott victory. Brie is also the co-director of a youth-led, story based non-profit called the Living Wage Action Coalition,based out of Washington, DC.

Satya currently serves as the Actions, Network, & Systems Director of The Ruckus Societyin Oakland, CA. Prior to working at the Ruckus Society, he was the Policy/Communications Director for The Praxis Project, and also worked for Greenpeace USA on the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, and the Toxics campaign, both in the US and in India. He is a member of mutual aid dot org tech collective, and also has served on the boards of the Genetic Engineering Action Network, South Asian American Voting Youth, and Project Underground.

Matthew Smucker is the founder of Beyond the Choir, a strategy collective. He served as the director of his hometown Lancaster Coalition for Peace & Justice, and also was the communications director at School of the Americas Watch.

Sasha Wright serves on the editorial collective of Left Turn magazine, and is active in local peace and social justice efforts.

Raeanne Young is a student of history at Mills College in Oakland, CA. She works with grassroots organizations to provide communications and media support work and training. Rae is a media savvy web-tech that has the amazing ability to get a message out and a penchant for all things open source. She is active in the California-wide student network "Action in Defense of Education." Rae is an avid fan of Filipino food.