Our Revolution Kansas City
In 2017, Past President Jared Wight took the lead in transforming a campaign effort in 2016 into a political movement for social justice here in Kansas City. In 2020, Our Revolution Kansas branched out on its own, with the full support of Missouri members.
Today OurRev Kansas City focuses on federal, state, and local issues as they relate to the counties of the Kansas City metro statistical area on the Missouri side. That includes Bates, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Caldwell, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Platt, and Ray counties as well as Clinton, Caldwell, and Platt counties, which we share with our partner organization Our Revolution St. Joseph.
Our Rev Kansas City is part of a nationwide network of local organizations under the banner of our national team. for more information see Our Revolution HQ.
Drew Bergerson’s day job is to research, teach, and write about modern German history. In his free time, he helped create the Community School Foundation, a nonprofit to support his favorite alternate independent school, CS#1elementary. At OurRev, he designed the Research & Endorsement process, and served as the OurRev Field Leader for the statewide ballot initiatives on Medicaid Expansion. He looks forward to working on the next initiative VOTE 2022.
Susan is a Spanish teacher in the Liberty Public School district and lives up north in Kansas City. Education, health care and anti-racism are her focused areas of activism.
After many regrets of not personally doing more for the 2016 Bernie campaign, Susan was determined to make a difference in 2020. She joined ORKC in 2019 and participated in local Bernie events, debate watch parties, phonebanking, and making buttons. She joined the effort to get Medicaid Expansion in Missouri on the ballot by collecting more than 600 signatures and by becoming a notary to help notarize petitions. She currently serves as the newly created and evolving role of Activist Liaison. If you have an initiative or a campaign you think ORKC should be involved with, contact Susan to bring it to the attention of the Board.