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	Carolyn Cushing Progressive Communicatiors Network, Director
	Managing Director of the Progressive Communicators Network, Carolyn has worked for over fifteen years in social justice and educational organizations, focusing on organization and resource development as well as participatory learning, research and organizational processes. Carolyn was Spirit in Action’s first staff person in 2000, and has served as the Network’s primary organizer since its beginning. She also coordinated the participatory evaluation of Spirit in Action’s Circles of Change program, Circles of Change: Transforming the Way We Do Change. Before joining Spirit in Action, Carolyn served worked at a community-based educational organization serving Western Massachusetts' immigrant, refugee, and migrant communities. As Fundraising Coordinator, she successfully diversified the organization's funding base (formerly all funding came from one source). In her final year, she coordinated the effort to raise a budget approaching a half million dollars from a mix of state funders, private foundations, local businesses, and individual donors. Carolyn also served as the facilitator of a two-year participatory action research project exploring how Welfare Reform, Immigration Reform, and the demands of the changing workplace impact adult learners and their ability to achieve their dreams and goals.