MEET THE STAFF
Linda Teeter Executive Director
Linda Teeter brings over 25 years of experience in political and community organizing. She served as a Legislative Aide to the former Michigan Representative Mary Brown for over 10 years, and has served in her current capacity with MCA since 1995.
Ms. Teeter has an extensive background in coalition building and issue organizing, and is trained in the Midwest Academy’s philosophy on organizing. She is considered a leader in the field, and is a former 3-term, Kalamazoo City Commissioner. |
Allie Pines Program Assistant
Allie is the daughter of former Kalamazoo Gazette public editor Joyce Pines and former Kalamazoo Gazette photojournalist Bradley S. Pines and is a recent graduate of Loy Norrix High School and the Kalamazoo Area Mathematics & Science Center. In addition, she spent five semesters dual enrolled at Western Michigan University and earned several credits in the fields of English, History, and Arabic.
Pines will be entering Columbia University in the fall of 2012 as a freshman and has been with Michigan Citizen Action since June 2010. Allie spent several months working with the One Kalamazoo campaign in 2009 to pass Non-Discrimination Ordinance 1856 and met Director Linda Teeter at the Young Women’s Political Leadership conference in 2010 and joined MCA as an intern. In 2012, she was awarded the YWCA’s Young Women of Achievement Award and the Excellence in Education award. |
