Engagement Strategy Team
Alissa Hauser
Co-Executive Director, Co-Founder 
Alissa is a long-time nonprofit executive with an MBA in Nonprofit Management. In the past fifteen years, she has led Resourceful Women, an organization that provided financial education and philanthropic support to women, and served eight years as Executive Director of Julia Butterfly Hill’s Circle of Life, the predecessor organization to The Engage Network. read more…
Marianne Manilov
Co-Executive Director, Co-Founder Board of Directors 
Prior to co-founding The Engage Network, Manilov’s 20-plus year career as a grassroots organizer, political and media strategist and writer included running campaigns and programs for groups such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace International. She is the co-founder and former Executive Director of The Center for Commercial-Free Public Education, home of the UNPLUG campaign against Channel One.. read more…
Taj James
Taj is the Executive Director of Movement Strategy Center, a group known for its work in building widespread coalitions and developing long-term movement strategies. Before starting the Movement Strategy Center, Taj was the Director of Youth Policy and Development at Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth. read more…
Technology & Communications Team
Matthew Edwards
Matthew is a program advisor, business process consultant, and technical architect with over 15 years experience with a wide range of clients including large corporates and smaller specialty companies, with a particular focus in community networks and the green marketplace. Matthew has also founded and directed multiple non-profits, including Circlecenter (a hub for visionary community located in Fairfax, CA), and the Village Networks (an online place-based social network). read more…
Operations Team
Jocelyn Corbett
Executive and Program Coordinator Jocelyn provides program and administrative support to The Engage Network, as well as operations support to Off The Mat, Into the World, one of Engage’s many successful and vibrant network-based programs. Jocelyn has worked at several nonprofit organizations including Ashoka’s Youth Venture and The Goldman Environmental Prize since completing the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs in 2009.
Maureen Miller
Accountant 
Maureen Miller is a self-employed California certified public accountant (C.P.A.). She earned her Master’s degree in Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Golden Gate University in 1999. Since then, she has been working with non-profit organizations, small businesses and individuals to help them establish and maintain accounting systems. She is a single mother of a 8 year-old son and lives in Oakland.