Joanne Wright has fourteen years of field, management, and fundraising experience leading and working with national grassroots organizations on voter mobilization and voting rights campaigns in low and moderate income African-American, Latino and immigrant communities. She was the national Deputy Political Director for ACORN for ten years. She served as the Interim Director for the We Are America Alliance, a national consortium of organizations doing civic participation work in immigrant communities. Her past clients have included leading organizations in the fields of civic engagement, community organizing, environmental advocacy, labor, and philanthropy. She has consulted for State Voices since July 2008.