Staff

Linda Stout
Executive Director

Linda Stout is an activist and a visionary. In her lifetime, she has identified injustice within her world, her country, her community, and her home. And like so many women - a handful recognized, most invisible - she has spoken up – committed to creating social change, determined to find a new way for a new democracy, and refusing to be silenced.
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Carolyn Cushing
Progressive Communicators 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.
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Connie Fitzgerald
Director of Operations and Finance

Connie Fitzgerald has worked with non-profits in finance and personnel since the early 1980's both as a staff member and as a volunteer. She worked with Peace Development Fund for 25 years, 15 years as the Director of Administration and Finance. She is the Treasurer of the Solidago Foundation. She served on Spirit in Action’s Board of Directors before joining our staff in 2007.

Leadership Program, Co-Facilitators

Pamela Freeman

Pamela Freeman is a long time social activist. She is the founder of the Philadelphia Black Women's health project, a cofounder of Playback for Change (an improv theater company that has a focus on looking at race, class, rank, privilege and gender). She is also a former board member of Spirit In Action, and Training for Change.

Phyllis Labanowski

Phyllis is a white woman of European descent. As a result of being raised in a working class, Polish patriarchy, rife with bigotry and prejudice, she has dedicated her life to creating justice in education and in the community where she lives. She has 20 years of teaching experience in elementary and secondary classrooms, in public and private schools in rural, suburban and urban communities. She is an artist, a facilitator, and a ritual-maker. Phyllis was the project coordinator helping us to create, Facilitating Circles of Change Curriculum Guide.

Board of Directors

Neal Adams

Neal Adams has worked professionally in the public, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. From 1972 until 2001 he served in variety of managerial and specialist positions with the Region X Office of the U. S. Public Health Service, including Grants Specialist, Director of Grants, and Public Health Advisor for Health Professions and Director of Minority Health. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as Director of Grants and Program for Social Justice Fund Northwest (formerly ATR), a progressive foundation in Seattle. Concurrent with positions he held with the Public Health Service and the foundation, he served and continues to serve in voluntary leadership positions on nonprofit boards, public advisory councils. He also volunteers in other positions such as a youth mentor. Neal is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Seattle University with a BS in Mathematics and a Masters of Public Administration. He is also a graduate of Leadership Tomorrow, a Seattle leadership development organization.