Our first PACG employees - Caroline Vernon and James Lee
L to R: Caroline Vernon, Cath Bolkcom, Caryn Unsicker, James Lee, Pam Kaufman
PACG has relied on part time staff for many years. Two of our first employees were James Lee and Caroline Vernon.
James Lee joined PACG during the spring of 2005. He became an active member in the organization where he joined, and eventually led, the Reclaiming Moral Values Forum. In 2007 James was asked by Cath Bolkom and Ron Quay to consider becoming the first Executive Director of Progressive Action. He accepted and served in that position from the Spring of 2007 through the early spring of 2009.
After serving as Executive Director James left the region and moved to the Washington, DC metro area. In 2010 where he become a national organizer for the Network of Spiritual Progressives and become an active member in the Occupy movement where he founded Occupy Faith, an organization that supported the Occupy movement in the faith community.
Throughout his adult life James has been active in political campaigns, social action and educational endeavors all aimed at promoting critical consciousness and social justice in the USA and across the world. He believes that we are directly responsible for the type of world the we want to see in our daily lives.
Caroline was also a founding member of PACG and was in attendance at the first gathering of progressives in January 2005. She became very involved in many of the early issue forums such as Health Care Reform, Media Reform, Women's Issues, Economic Justice, Social Security and Corporate Reform. She adopted Corporate Reform as her banner issue and joined the national Wake-Up Walmart campaign. Caroline also facilitated our monthly Social Justice Movie Night during her time as staff and beyond. She was hired as the PACG Organizer from September of 2005 to August of 2008. She supported the working forums, helped to organize events, managed communications, created staff reports outlining the work, including after action reports. At that time PACG had a steering committee and later formed the first board after incorporating as a 501c(4).
Upon leaving PACG, Caroline served as Organizer for NAMI Scott County/Greater Mississippi Valley for the past 16 years.
When Caroline stepped back from these responsibilities, she wrote this lovely email to our community about the changes. This was also when our organization email address was established as [email protected] (which we no longer use).
James Lee joined PACG during the spring of 2005. He became an active member in the organization where he joined, and eventually led, the Reclaiming Moral Values Forum. In 2007 James was asked by Cath Bolkom and Ron Quay to consider becoming the first Executive Director of Progressive Action. He accepted and served in that position from the Spring of 2007 through the early spring of 2009.
After serving as Executive Director James left the region and moved to the Washington, DC metro area. In 2010 where he become a national organizer for the Network of Spiritual Progressives and become an active member in the Occupy movement where he founded Occupy Faith, an organization that supported the Occupy movement in the faith community.
Throughout his adult life James has been active in political campaigns, social action and educational endeavors all aimed at promoting critical consciousness and social justice in the USA and across the world. He believes that we are directly responsible for the type of world the we want to see in our daily lives.
Caroline was also a founding member of PACG and was in attendance at the first gathering of progressives in January 2005. She became very involved in many of the early issue forums such as Health Care Reform, Media Reform, Women's Issues, Economic Justice, Social Security and Corporate Reform. She adopted Corporate Reform as her banner issue and joined the national Wake-Up Walmart campaign. Caroline also facilitated our monthly Social Justice Movie Night during her time as staff and beyond. She was hired as the PACG Organizer from September of 2005 to August of 2008. She supported the working forums, helped to organize events, managed communications, created staff reports outlining the work, including after action reports. At that time PACG had a steering committee and later formed the first board after incorporating as a 501c(4).
Upon leaving PACG, Caroline served as Organizer for NAMI Scott County/Greater Mississippi Valley for the past 16 years.
When Caroline stepped back from these responsibilities, she wrote this lovely email to our community about the changes. This was also when our organization email address was established as [email protected] (which we no longer use).
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