Maurice Mitchell is a member of the Evergreen Advisory Board and the national director of the Working Families Party. Maurice is a longtime community and political organizer in New York. After Mike Brown was murdered by police in Missouri, Maurice relocated to support organizations on the ground responding to the police violence across the country. Seeing the need for an organization to provide strategic support and guidance within the Movement for Black Lives, Maurice co-founded and managed Blackbird. Maurice was a key organizer of the 2015 Movement for Black Lives convention in Cleveland. Maurice joined the Working Families Party in August 2018, and led the national organization through a successful midterm election season that ended Republican control of legislative chambers in New York and Colorado, and ousted conservative corporate Democrats in multiple states. Maurice is building the Working Families Party to be America’s authentic, multi-racial populist party.