OUR UNITY MAKES US STRONG
WE ARE FIRELANDS
Firelands is made up of powerful leaders, a growing membership, a staff team, and a board of directors.
Members
We are working people in rural and small town WA: mill workers, veterans, nurses, cannery workers, loggers, childcare providers, grocery workers, cooks. We are parents, students, and retirees. We are renters, homeowners, and mobile homeowners. We are teens to seniors, immigrant and US-born, Hispanic/Latino, white, Indigenous, Asian-Pacific Islander, and Black. We build our ever-growing membership through joyful, welcoming events, deep listening canvassing, and trainings.
Leaders
Firelands leaders are members of our base who commit significant time, energy and skill to organizing. Leaders learn together through our rigorous, bilingual popular-education trainings and events. We advocate, carry out deep listening canvasses and develop organizing and social-emotional skills and shared analysis of the problems we face, the solutions we can win, and an abundant vision for the future.
Staff
The heart of Firelands staff is our organizing team, working on the ground to build power, support leaders, grow the base, win victories, and cultivate the strength and unity of our people. Our staff team of bring expertise in organizing, leadership, fundraising, training, advocacy, policy, communications, and storytelling.
Board of Directors
Firelands is guided and supported by a multiracial and multilingual Board of Directors made up of Firelands leaders and movement supporters.
