Dan McGrath

Dan McGrath "got his start as an organizer with the Hamline Midway Coalition, a neighborhood group in St. Paul. He worked as a community and political organizer for Progressive Minnesota where he later rose to become Executive Director.  Dan left to work in the Republic of Ireland at the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation and later as a Democracy Educator for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA).  Before returning to Minnesota, he ran a national community and political program for the Service Employees International Union.  Dan has managed local and statewide issue and get-out-the-vote campaigns, including successful campaigns to stop corporate welfare and win needed resources for public schools.  He has designed and implemented cutting-edge programs to organize and mobilize new Americans for political power in the Hmong, Latino and Somali communities."