Jodi Risper

Jodi Risper is the Movement Politics Director of Citizen Action New York, a member group of People's Action. Jodi is also a part of People's Action's Federal Strategy Council / Brain Trust, helping to orient the network towards its relationship with the new Administration, the transition, and first 100 days. As an African-American woman who grew up with her father incarcerated for a period, the Biden-Harris "tough on crime" policies of the past are personal.