Elizabeth Ashley – Traveling Team Leader
Liz Ashley was born and raised outside of Chicago. She jumped on the road when she was eighteen years old, and never looked back! She joined HeadCount in 2008, registering voters coast-to-coast as a traveling team leader.
She is currently on tour with Ratdog representing HeadCount’s 2009 “What’s your Issue?” campaign. Liz graduated in 2007 at the top of her class with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing. She then packed her car and moved out to Philadelphia, and now calls the northeast home. When not on the road, Liz works as a Registered Nurse, specializing in women’s health and home health care. She continues to love the road, and travels wherever the music takes her.
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Abby Brazina – TL – Philadelphia, PA
Abby first learned about HeadCount at a Disco Biscuits show in 2008. As an 8th grade History and Civics teacher, Abby sees volunteering for HeadCount as the perfect way to extend the ideas of civic responsibility stressed in her classroom to the real world.
Abby recently started a residency for. HeadCount at the World Café Live in Philadelphia. When she's not teaching 8th graders about their unalienable rights, Abby can be found biking the roads of suburban Philadelphia.
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Crystal Bryan – TL – Atlanta, GA
Crystal started with HeadCount as a field volunteer in the summer of 2008, and is excited to be the Atlanta Team Leader. She graduated from Georgia State University in May 2009 with a B.B.A. in Hospitality Administration and plans to pursue...
event management with a focus on the live entertainment industry. Crystal also volunteers with the American Liver Foundation helping voice the importance of organ donation as well as interns for Shimon Presents, a publicity, promotions, and grassroots marketing company working with numerous bands and events around the country. She was also recently accepted to the Disney College Program for a concierge role and is currently living in Orlando to work at Disney World through January 2010.
Crystal is enthusiastic and passionate about music, event planning and is actively involved with helping to maintain a clean environment both in her home and community. Since her internship with the Captain Planet Foundation in 2007, she has become a lead event volunteer where she now plays a key role in annual fundraisers, represents the Foundation at festivals and events, and also teaches environmental literacy to youth at leading environmental fairs and expos in the Metro Atlanta area.
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Holly Bowling – TL – San Francisco, CA
Holly began volunteering with HeadCount during the summer of 2008 after getting excited about the 2008 presidential election. Holly is a music teacher and is currently studying classical piano at San Francisco State University.
She is passionate about local food, community gardens, and changing our farm and food policy. Holly moved to California from New Hampshire in 2003 and lives in San Francisco with her husband Jeffery (also a team leader in San Francisco) and awesome dog Soren. She loves seeing live music and is excited to combine the energy and community at shows and festivals with working to help people take an active voice in their government.
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Sam Calvert - TL - Eugene, OR
Jackie Orlando started volunteering for HeadCount in the summer of 2009 after being introduced to the organization by her roommate and fellow NYC Team Leader Cassie Levine.
She first became interested in politics and volunteering in 2004 after working at the Democratic Convention in Boston, MA.
Jackie recently graduated from NYU with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication. She loves live music and hopes to one day work in the music industry. She also enjoys socializing, meeting new people, and taking advantage of all that New York City has to offer.
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Mitchell Burdett – TL – Seattle, WA
Mitchell started volunteering with HeadCount in 2008, and stepped up his involvement in 2009 as the co-TL for the Seattle/Puget Sound area. Outside his involvement with HeadCount, Mitchell is involved with the glass art world. With Olympic Color Rods...
, he coordinates closely with artists around North America to ensure they have supplies to complete upcoming projects. In addition to OCR, he is part of the Denny Park Fine Arts team, which provides maintenance and cleaning of Chihuly artwork around the world. Born and raised in western North Carolina, Mitchell attended The University of the South in Sewanee, TN. He graduated in 2004 with a major in sculpture, as well as a minor in German. His free time is consumed by concerts (duh), disc golf, skiing the great NW, and grillin-n-chillin.
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Melissa Brennan – TL – New York, NY
Melissa is a writer working as a freelance theater electrician in New York City. She attended Bradford College, where she studied under David Crouse, and SUNY Purchase, and is an alumna of The Juilliard School's Professional Intern Program. She has also assisted on the successful re-election campaign...
for then State Senator Bill Finch of Connecticut. It was when working with Finch that Melissa found a passion for working within her community and engaging people in the democratic process, which eventually lead her to HeadCount. Melissa also enjoys live music, kayaking, gardening, crocheting and celebrating her friends.
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Kelly Calhoun – TL – Denver, CO
Kelly began volunteering for HeadCount in Raleigh, NC; with a passion for getting the American youth demographic as much involved as possible in the 2009 election. She was raised in the creepy mountain town of Frostburg, MD; and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 2003 to attend college.
After graduating from NC State University with degrees in Communication Media/Film Studies and minors in Art + Design and Parks Management; she relocated to study and practice Reiki Therapy in Denver, CO and was very fortunate to have the opportunity became the Denver Team Leader. She enjoys participating and creating all aspects of pastiche Art and live music. Kelly is very passionate about HeadCount and all positive progressive politics. Denver Represent.
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John Duffy – TL – Minnesota, MN
John first became involved with HeadCount as a volunteer in 2004 in Illinois. He has since moved to Minnesota and in 2008 he became a Team Leader in his new home state. He is very excited to be working with HeadCount once again.
Hannah Fornces – TL – Raleigh, NC
Hannah started volunteering for HeadCount in early 2008 and is excited to be Raleigh's new Team Leader. She is currently a senior in Environmental Engineering with a minor in Agricultural Business Management at North Carolina State University. When Hannah isn't studying how to save the earth you...
can find her catching live shows, knocking on doors for various local candidates, or interning at the North Carolina Solar Center. Hannah enjoys good music, environmentalism, the Grateful Dead, grassroots organizing, playing outside, vegetarianism, traveling, and listening to NPR.
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Lisa Lovedahl – TL – Asheville, NC
Lisa joined Headcount in early 2008 as the Team Leader in Ashville, NC, where she lives with her two daughters. She has an educational background in the Paralegal field and has served as Director of Elections in Jackson County for the past fifteen years in addition to sitting to sitting on the local City Planning Board.
Lisa realizes that past generations have sacrificed to give us the right to vote and it's our responsibility to utilize it to protect the future generations. Excuses like ‘I'm not political,’ ‘I don't have time,’ or ‘my vote doesn't count’ are only excuses with no merit. Lisa encourages everyone to do something great today - register to vote, encourage others to get involved, be informed, and VOTE! She is trying to learn Pilates and enjoys living in the mountains.
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Tim McCormick – TL – Boulder, CO
Tim McCormick joined Headcount in March of 2008 as the Team Leader for Boulder, CO. Originally from Boston, Tim moved out to Colorado in 2006 to with the hope of gaining experience in the music industry. A 2005 graduate of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, Tim holds a B.A. in ...
Political Science and a Minor in Music. He has had many years of experience with the concert scene and shares his love of all types of music with his family and friends. He is eager to register and involve as many people in the democratic process as possible.
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Liz O'Donnell – TL – Boston, MA
Liz joined HeadCount in August of 2008 as the Boston Team Leader. She happened across a HeadCount banner on Pearl Jam's website one day and the rest is history. Liz is currently in her third year at Boston University's College of Communications.
She is set to graduate with a BA in Public Relations in 2010, and hopes to also minor in Occupational Therapy.
In high school, Liz missed the 2004 election by one year and one day, and since then has been waiting impatiently for her first chance to vote. A huge believer in the power of the youth vote, Liz has lead student government and joined the campaigns of national candidates to stay politically active while she waits for November 4th. In addition to HeadCount, she also works as a full-time Public Relations intern, a part-time sales associate, plays hockey, and rides horses.
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Kaya Okuniewski – TL Los Angeles, CA
Kaya began volunteering for Headcount in May of 2009, and shortly after recognizing the organizations effectiveness and potential, joined Headcount as a Los Angeles Team...
Leader in November of 2009. She heard about Headcount from a her good friend Liz O'Donnell, a Boston Team Leader who thought Headcount was exactly what she was looking for, something that satisfied not only her passion for politics, but also for music. Both of these interests were inspired by her mother and father who immigrated to America in the midst of a destructive communistic government in Soviet-occupied Poland. She is currently attending University of California, Los Angeles and majoring in Political Science in hopes of making a difference in America's political future. Kaya interns at the General Consulate of Poland, Los Angeles, and works as a part-time associate. She also enjoys reading, creative writing, and supporting and attending her friends and idols live concerts.
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Acacia Rettich – TL – Orlando, FL
Acacia Rettich joined HeadCount in March 2008 as the Team Leader for the Central Florida area. In addition to volunteering with HeadCount, Acacia is an adjunct faculty member at Brevard Community College (BCC) in the Communications department. She also teaches English at Palm Bay High School.
Acacia is originally from Ohio and received her B.A. in English from Ohio State in 2002. Go Bucks! In 2004, Acacia received a Master of Arts in Teaching Language Arts from Miami University. She now resides in Melbourne with her two dogs, Elly and Charlie. When not working or volunteering, Acacia has an Xbox 360 addiction and loves to read.
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Michelle Stafford – TL - Baltimore, MD
Michelle Stafford began volunteering at local shows with HeadCount in April 2008. Shortly after seeing the effectiveness and widespread influence of the organization first-hand, Michelle decided to take the position of Baltimore Team Leader in hopes of creating a strong and...
thriving volunteer base in her home community and having an impact at upcoming music festivals. Michelle works as the Middle School Program Coordinator at Students Sharing Coalition, a grassroots non-profit in Baltimore City whose mission is to promote civic engagement and meaningful service-learning opportunities among inner-city youth. She teaches a service-learning curriculum to seventh graders and facilitates a service oriented after school program. Michelle received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing Poetry certificate from Dickinson College in 2007 and currently lives in Ellicott City, MD.
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Lisa Whitaker – TL – Lexington, KY
Lisa joined HeadCount in 2008 as the Team Leader in Kentucky and quickly found HeadCount was the perfect mix of activism and good times. In addition to being an outlet for civic engagement, it serves as a fix for her live music addiction. Lisa's day job is in Employer Relations for the...
public pension system in Kentucky. Kentucky born and raised, Lisa earned her BA in English at Georgetown College.
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Tim Arnold – TL – Indianapolis, IN
Tim is originally from the great state of New Jersey and though he now calls Indianapolis home, he misses mountains and trees a great deal. Tim taught high school social studies for six years before committing to a career change midstream. Tim is still committed to civics...
and education and it is that drive that brought him to Headcount. Currently he is in grad school for interface design. While he's not signing up voters or in class, Tim can be found either on a bike or on his way to a bike race.
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Amanda Brewington – TL – Lansing, MI
Amanda began working with HeadCount as the Michigan Team Leader in summer 2008 after meeting HeadCount's team at the Rothbury Music Festival. She wants to get people in MI out to vote! A native of Michigan, Amanda now lives in Lansing and graduated from MSU in May of 2008.
She spent five years involved with Impact 89 FM, her college's radio station, promoting local music on her show, The Basement. She is currently working as the member services coordinator for the MSU Student Houseing Co-op and working on music licensing and research at a production house in Lansing. She loves to support the local music scene and planning upcoming shows. She hopes to see you out on the dancefloor.
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Jeffery Bowling – TL – San Francisco, CA
Jeffery first volunteered with HeadCount at the Outside Lands festival in 2008. After being heavily involved with the 2008 presidential election, Jeffery is excited to be taking a more active role in political issues by serving as a team leader for the Bay Area.
Jeffery has a BA in Philosophy & Religion as well as a MA in Philosophy from San Francisco State University. He is also a senior manager at Touchstone Climbing which has five indoor rock climbing gyms in Northern California. If he is not working the HeadCount table at a Bay Area show, he's more than likely on Phish tour.
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Jesse Campbell – TL – Columbus, OH
Jesse first became aware of HeadCount after registering to vote at the HeadCount table during a 2008 music festival in Ohio. He immediately became interested in the organization after viewing the HeadCount documentary "A Call to Action" and hearing Bob Weir say ...
"If every Deadhead in the state of Florida would have voted on Election Day in 2000, we would be living in a very different world...Think about it." Jesse did think about it and immediately began volunteering at local shows to help drive voter registration for the 2008 election, including serving as a team captain on the fan-to-fan phone campaign. In 2009, he became the Team Leader for Columbus, OH. Jesse currently resides in Ohio where he earned his B.A. in Psychology from Ohio University. His interests include reading, traveling, nature, playing guitar and listening to the music of the Grateful Dead. Jesse would love to know "What's Your Issue?"
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Kristie Freed – TL – St. Louis, MO
Kristie joined HeadCount in 2008 after learning about HeadCount through the Dave Matthews Warehouse Club when purchasing tickets for the summer tour, and saw an opportunity to get involved in voter registration. She has been employed with a local Chamber of Commerce as their Communications...
and Events Director for the last five years. She is responsible for creating and maintaining business and community driven events, as well as recruitment and management of their volunteer base. Kristie volunteers her time with many local organizations including Safe Kids St. Charles County, Disabled Athlete Sports Association and currently co-chairs the local “Olde Tyme Picnic” which draws over 40,000 in attendance each year. She enjoys being active in her community and attends concerts as frequently as she can. She met her husband at the local Homegrown Festival in 1996 and has been happily married for ten years and has two children.
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Jason Gershuny – TL – Portland, OR
Jason likes to think of himself as a living balance of contrasts. A strong-willed New Yorker by birth, Jason has found his niche in the laid back Pacific Northwest, calling it home for the last six years.
By day he’s a responsible teacher and role model to high school students,...
but by night he’s a live music fanatic who loves to dance full throttle. He’s a devoted political junkie who’s spent countless hours reading anything and everything with a political angle, but is also a complete nerd when it comes to movies like "The Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars." If you see him out at a show, dance on up next to him and ask him to demonstrate his impressive Wookie yell. Jason believes that if variety is indeed the spice of life, he’s living a well-seasoned existence.
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Tazewell Jones – TL – Washington, DC
Tazewell Jones joined the HeadCount team in the late summer of 2009 as the Team Leader for Washington, DC. Taz is currently a senior at American University studying Political Science and Criminal Justice. A long-time fan and avid supporter of live music, Taz has found quite a comfortable...
home at HeadCount, where he's able to combine his two greatest interests in life: live music and politics. HeadCount shows offer Taz an amazing opportunity to reach out to like-minded fans of live music in order to spread awareness of the importance of political engagement on all subjects and from all walks of life.
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Julia Judge – TL – Boston, MA
Julia became the Boston Co-TL in the summer of 2009, after working many fun and successful shows in Boston in 2008. She loves music and politics and wanted to get involved before the election, so naturally HeadCount was the perfect organization for her! Currently, she is in her third year at...
Northeastern University, where she majors in sociology and minors in human services and Spanish. As of now, she is on her first co-op with NU working for an organization that provides services to adults with autism, and she hopes to do more work in the mental health field. She also works part-time at Bertucci's (gotta love those rolls!) Last semester she volunteered with Horizons for Homeless Children at a domestic violence shelter, and loved every second! She also enjoys singing, reading, soccer, live music and a nice and heated political debate. Oh, she also is a hopeless trashy TV show addict.
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Scott Kaplan – TL – Carbondale, IL
Scott is currently serving as the Carbondale team leader. He started serving HeadCount as a volunteer during the 2004 election and became Iowa team leader after moving to Ames, IA for graduate school. In 2008, he served as team leader in his hometown of Chicago. His greatest passions are people,...
music and making a difference in larger macro-systems. He has high energy and a pension to canvas the lot for unregistered voters and people looking to make their voice heard. Recently, Scott got his doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Iowa State University and landed a job as a staff therapist at the Southern Illinois University counseling center in Carbondale, IL. From the east coast originally, he used to call himself a displaced city boy but is now getting used to the joys of country culture.
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Cassie Levine – TL - New York, NY
Cassie joined the HeadCount team in the spring of 2008 and thinks that HeadCount's combination of music and politics is a great approach to help secure a better future for our country . She lives for music, movies, traveling and volunteering.
Her passion for music, jam bands and movies comes from her oldest brother Justin, who surrounded her with a wide library of media. When she isn't studying sociology and film at school you can find her creating vegetarian recipes, hitting up concerts, watching movies, playing outside and listening to anything with a little funk. Cassie currently works at the brand new music venue Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg.
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Clay Murray– TL – Richmond, VA
Clay Murray grew up in Southwestern Virginia on a fourth generation family farm in Botetourt County where his family continues to make apple cider and apple juice made from locally grown apples. After graduating from James Madison University in 2004 with a BS in Industrial Design,...
Clay returned home to work at the family farm and market the local product throughout the South Eastern United States. He frequented the local farmer's market learning the ropes engaging complete strangers about a meaningful topic. Three years later, he tried his hand at a presidential campaign as a field organizer in both South Carolina and Virginia with very positive results. Combining these two life experiences and a natural instinct to root for the underdog, he strives to create more long term opportunities for small farms as our society learns the values of sustainability and the necessity of healthy foods. Clay joined up with Headcount in 2009 and is proud to be able to once again team up two of his other passions, rock-n-roll shows and civic engagement.
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Jackie Orlando - Team Leader - New York, NY
Jackie Orlando started volunteering for HeadCount in the summer of 2009 after being introduced to the organization by her roommate and fellow NYC Team Leader Cassie Levine.
She first became interested in politics and volunteering in 2004 after working at the Democratic Convention in Boston, MA.
Jackie recently graduated from NYU with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication. She loves live music and hopes to one day work in the music industry. She also enjoys socializing, meeting new people, and taking advantage of all that New York City has to offer.
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Ethan Robbins – Festival Team Leader
Ethan graduated in May 2008 from Oberlin College in Ohio where he double majored in East Asian Studies and Creative Writing, concentrating in the Chinese Language and poetry, respectively. He has worked with HeadCount since the summer of 2007...
beginning as a volunteer at Mountain Jam and Gathering of the Vibes, and then as a Touring Representative following the Dave Matthews Band for the summer of 2008. This past summer Ethan helped lead the Team at Bonnaroo. Outside of HeadCount, Ethan's biggest passion is music. Beginning at four years old, he began to study the classical violin, and at 14, started to teach himself the guitar. At Oberlin, he was in a number of bands, ranging from an acoustic trio performing original folk and bluegrass music in coffee houses, to a Grateful Dead cover band that plays house parties. Ethan recently relocated to Boston, MA.
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Courtney Samuels – TL – Cincinnati, OH
Looking for a way to combine her passion for civic engagement with the pure joy from experiencing live music, Courtney joined HeadCount in 2009 as Team Leader in Cincinnati. After finishing undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Studies at Old Dominion University...
in Norfolk, Virginia, Courtney worked as a pollster in DC before becoming a suburbanite in Cincinnati. When she is not volunteering for other causes she is passionate about, Courtney can usually be found talking politics with anyone who will listen, reading trashy vampire novels, or herding the four cats who call her house home.
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Michael Simon – TL – Chicago, IL
Michael Simon joined HeadCount in 2008, and is excited to be leading the Chicago, Ill., team. He first became aware of HeadCount in 2004 when he registered to vote at a Phish show in the Midwest. Michael graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington in 2006 with a BA in public policy...
He is currently working for C.H. Robertson. In his free time, Michael enjoys jamming with friends, traveling, and downhill skiing.
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