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  Global Trade Watch Staff DirectoryBryan Buchanan: Press Officer Alexis De Simone: Senior Field Organizer Sarah Edelman: State and Local Program Coordinator Genevie Gold: Legislative Assistant/Scheduler Bill Holland: Deputy Director Travis McArthur: Trade and Finance Researcher James Ploeser: Senior Field Organizer Todd Tucker: Research Director Lori Wallach: Director, Global Trade Watch Daphne Watkins: Legislative Assistant/Internship Coordinator Brandon Wu: Development and Program Associate , Press Officer Bryan Buchanan is the Press Officer for Global Trade Watch. Prior to joining Global Trade Watch, Mr. Buchanan was an Account Executive at Fenton Communications, conducting strategic media outreach for major progressive non-profits. He has also worked as the Nevada organizer for the Sierra Club where he administered the Building Environmental Communities program and worked to prevent the construction of coal-fired power plants in the region. At the League of Conservation Voters, he tracked federal legislation on environmental and energy policy and served as an advocate in Congress for higher CAFE standards, protection of the Tongass National Forest, and robust climate change legislation. Buchanan received a B.A. in both political theory and cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia and an interdisciplinary M.A. in social science from the University of Chicago. , Senior Field Organizer Alexis De Simone is a Senior Field Organizer at Global Trade Watch. Ms. De Simone joined GTW from CASA de Maryland, where she organized domestic workers and their allies from labor, faith-based, and community organizations to pass groundbreaking legislation guaranteeing rights for this wholly unrecognized workforce. Alexis previously worked in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with the MST (Landless Rural Workers Movement) to fight for land access rights and democratic accountability in the most unequal economy in the hemisphere. Proudly born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Ms. De Simone graduated from Georgetown University in 2004, where she double-majored in Government and Theology. She speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese. , State and Local Program Coordinator Sarah Edelman, as the State and Local Program Coordinator for Global Trade Watch, conducts strategic education and outreach campaigns to state and local officials about the implications of trade agreements for state regulatory authority and local control. Before joining Global Trade Watch, Ms. Edelman collaborated with grassroots community organizations as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador and as an Americorps VISTA volunteer in North Philadelphia to launch community education programs and small business projects. As a paralegal at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, she advocated for the rights of low-income Philadelphia utility customers. Ms. Edelman also worked as a freelance producer for Radio Times, a public-affairs program at National Public Radio affiliate station WHYY. Ms. Edelman speaks fluent Spanish and received a B.A. in History from George Washington University. , Deputy Director Bill Holland is Deputy Director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. Before joining Global Trade Watch, Mr. Holland was Midwest Field Director for the Apollo Alliance, an effort to end America’s dependence on foreign oil and create millions of high-wage jobs. During the 2004 Iowa Caucuses, Mr. Holland led the Iowa Fair Trade Campaign, gaining commitments from all Democratic candidates for President to define their vision of a better American trade model, including opposition to the then-proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. Before this, Mr. Holland was the Grassroots Organizer with ForestEthics, where he helped gain a landmark commitment from Staples, Inc. to protect endangered forests and dramatically increase their sale of recycled paper. Mr. Holland was also Lead Organizer for Green Corps, the Field School for Environmental Organizing. Mr. Holland graduated from Grinnell College with a B.A. in Political Science. , Trade and Finance Researcher Travis McArthur is the Trade and Finance Researcher at Global Trade Watch. Before joining Global Trade Watch, he worked at the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research where he analyzed the effects of the TARP bank bailout on competition in the financial industry. In 2008 he worked with the Unión de Agricultores Minifundistas (Association of Smallholder Farmers) in Guatemala to develop a plan to help farmers cope with the effects of the Central America Free Trade Agreement. He has also conducted research on the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexico at Oxfam America. He graduated from American University with a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in International Relations. , Senior Field Organizer James Ploeser, as Global Trade Watch's Senior Field Organizer, oversees GTW's national and international campaigns, providing strategic vision, promoting grassroots outreach and education around the impacts of corporate globalization in the U.S., and coordinating with national and international civil society and governmental allies. Before joining GTW in 2008, he worked as the Coordinator of the Iowa Fair Trade Campaign, pressing presidential hopefuls for fair trade policy platforms in the lead-up to the first-in-the-nation 2008 caucuses. Prior to that he was an organizer with SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign, a co-founder of the Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance, worked with the Campesino movement in Ecuador, and has helped lead numerous electoral and issue campaigns. He graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin, receiving B.A. degrees in both International Studies and Latin American Studies, and is fluent in Spanish and conversant in French. , Research Director Todd Tucker was named Research Director for Global Trade Watch in November 2004 and has authored reports related to the Central America Free Trade Agreement, job off-shoring, national security, the 2006 elections, and many other issues. Before coming to GTW, Mr. Tucker analyzed U.S. foreign policy and macroeconomic policy of the international financial institutions for the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research. He has a long background in the globalization debates, having organized with the World Bank Bonds Boycott campaign and United Students Against Sweatshops. He received an M.A. in Economic Development from Cambridge University (UK) and a B.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University. Mr. Tucker hails originally from Louisville, KY, and has spent much of his life in Latin America, where his parents served as missionaries. , Director, Global Trade Watch Lori Wallach is Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division. A Harvard-trained lawyer, Wallach has promoted the public interest regarding globalization and international commercial agreements in every forum: Congress and foreign parliaments, the courts, government agencies, and the media. Wallach has been described as "Ralph Nader with a sense of humor" in a Wall Street Journal profile, "the Trade Debate's Guerrilla Warrior" in the National Journal, and "Madame Defarge of Seattle" by the Institute for International Economics. Working closely with civil society, scholars, and activists in developing countries and with U.S. congressional, environmental, labor, and other allies, Wallach has played an important role in fostering the growing debate about implications of different models of trade and globalization on jobs, livelihoods and wages; the environment; public health and safety; equality and social justice and democratically accountable governance. Wallach has testified before more than 20 U.S. congressional committees on trade and globalization matters. She has served as a trade commentator on CNN, ABC, CNBC, C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, PBS, NPR and numerous foreign outlets. Wallach's most recent book is Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO (The New Press, 2004). She has also contributed to numerous anthologies including the International Forum on Globalization's Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible. Wallach has been a leader in popularizing the trade and globalization debate and in creating new methodologies for effective public interest campaigns on trade and globalization issues. Wallach's work in "translating" arcane trade legalese – indeed, entire international commercial agreements – into relevant, accessible prose and connecting people's lived experiences with pacts' legal requirements, has helped empower more diverse participation in trade and globalization discussions. In 1993, Wallach was a founder of the Citizens Trade Campaign, a national coalition of consumer, labor, environmental, family farm, religious, and civil rights groups representing over 11 million Americans, and now serves on its board. Wallach, a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School, is a member of the Wisconsin bar. Wallach has previously worked on Capitol Hill, in television news, and on electoral campaigns. She lives in the historic Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. in an old row house that she is slowly but surely renovating. Read and download this biography (pdf), or see Lori's media profile page. , Legislative Assistant/Internship Coordinator Daphne Watkins joined the Global Trade Watch team in 2007. As a Legislative Assistant, she administratively serves all Global Trade Watch programs. She also fills the role of internship coordinator, helping to select and organize the work of the division’s dynamic intern staff. Prior to joining Global Trade Watch, she worked with a number of international NGOs facilitating democratic participation and bridging the gap between the developing and developed worlds. Ms. Watkins received a B.A. in International Development from The George Washington University. , Development and Program Associate Brandon Wu is a development and program associate with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. He splits his time between grantwriting and research, and is also Global Trade Watch's resident Web tech and designer and blog administrator. Mr. Wu came to Public Citizen by way of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, before which he graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in sociology, specializing in international development studies. He originally hails from trade-ravaged central North Carolina. more resources
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