Kenneth Galdston - IVP Director/Organizer. In addition to helping organize and serving as the lead organizer of the Naugatuck and Merrimack Valley Projects, Galdston has organized with African-American and white rural poor people in North Carolina, in blue collar and middle class neighborhoods in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Buffalo, and with a labor-based plant closing coalition in Eastern Massachusetts. He trained and worked with the Industrial Areas Foundation for seven years. Just prior to working with the Naugatuck Valley Project he graduated with a master’s degree in management from the Yale School of Organization and Management.

Raymond Gagné - IVP Organizer. Raymond Gagné has been an organizer for 26 years, serving as lead organizer in three Massachusetts community organizations: Essex County Community Organization in Lynn, Coalition for a Better Acre in Lowell, and United Interfaith Action in Fall River/New Bedford. He is a native of Massachusetts.

Andrea Sheppard Lomba - IVP Congregational Development Training Director - Andrea Sheppard work for IVP builds on her work at St. Mark Roman Catholic Parish in Dorchester, Massachusetts and a half a dozen other congregations during the past 8 years. She has worked with clergy and lay leaders to build strong congregations and has helped organize parish campaigns around economic redevelopment of the business district near St. Mark's, a voter registration, education and turn-out campaign, and a citizenship and ESOL campaign with scores of new immigrants at St. Mark's. She grew up in Conyers, Georgia, and is a graduate of Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina where she majored in Religion. She is also a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School with a Master's of Divinity degree. She has studied community organizing with Marshall Ganz at Harvard's Kennedy School, and served for three years as a teaching assistant for his course, "Organizing: People, Power and Change."

Judith Mullins - IVP Resource Developer - Judith Mullins is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She has served as pastor for two churches and has served as a community organizing for a coalition of Protestant and Catholic Churches in the Bronx. She served as a Staff Organizer for the Pioneer Valley Project for three years. She has a private practice as a spiritual director.