Kennedy Bartley (she/her) is the Executive Director of United Working Families. Kennedy was previously the Director of Campaigns for the Chicago Torture Justice Center, helping to secure funds for a memorial honoring survivors of police torture. She was the chair of United Working Families’ policy committee and previously served as UWF’s Senior Legislative Director, leading campaigns to secure crucial community investments at the city and state level. Kennedy is a member of the Collaborative for Community Wellness, Defund CPD, and has been a community organizer/activist in Chicago since 2013. Kennedy was appointed to Mayor Johnson’s overall transition committee and the public safety subcommittee.

Jung Yoon (she/her) is a queer first generation Korean-American living on the Council of Three Fires land (Chicago). She is the campaign director for Grassroots Collaborative (GC), a community-labor coalition, and co-founder of the Illinois Green New Deal Coalition and the People’s Unity Platform Coalition. Jung builds bridges between movements to build united-front power to win a just transition for all Black and brown families and expand the collective imagination of what’s possible, moving from economies of extraction to economies of care. When she’s not explicitly resisting oppression, you’ll find her skateboarding, flying on the trapeze, and raising two radical children with her queer family.