Alfonso Saldaña, Co-Director
Alfonso Saldaña (he/him) is a Co-Director of Move to Amend. He began work with the Move to Amend National as an intern, soon joining the staff team as the Online Communications Coordinator.
Alfonso is a former student from the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley where he earned a degree in English concentrating in creative writing with a minor in literature. In consequence of reading about the corrosive implications that come with wealth accumulation throughout the ages, Alfonso is now together with Move to Amend on a mission to get money out of politics and end corporate constitutional rights.
When not fighting evil conglomerates, he enjoys reading and writing horror and dystopian stories, taking long walks with his partner, and trying new vegan recipes.
Cole Bennett, Co-Director
Cole Bennett (he/him) is a Co-Director of Move to Amend. He worked as a National Fellow with Move to Amend while obtaining a Juris Doctorate from the Georgia State University College of Law, and has since joined the Move to Amend National Team as Political Justice Director.
He chose to go to law school after learning about runaway corporate power and political corruption as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia. Since then, he has devoted his career to rooting out dark money in politics, overturning the disastrous Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision, and making the promise of democracy manifest.
When not lobbying elected officials or canvassing Atlanta neighborhoods, he thoroughly enjoys karaoke, live music, and spending time in nature with loved ones. He also has a love of traveling and wants to see as much of the world as he possibly can.
Greg Coleridge, Co-Director
Greg Coleridge (he/him) is Co-Director of Move to Amend. He previously worked for more than three decades with the American Friends Service Committee in Ohio where he educated, advocated and organized on a range of justice, peace, environmental and democracy issues -- including helping coordinate Move to Amend activities in the Buckeye state.
He is the author of The Depth of Change: Selected Writings and Remarks on Social Change (2022), Citizens over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future (2003), writer of the documentary CorpOrNation: The Story of Citizens and Corporations in Ohio (2003), and contributed several articles to the anthology Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy - A Book of History and Strategy (2001). He currently maintains and distributes via email a weekly REAL Democracy History Calendar and Monetary History Calendar.
Greg is a Board Member of the Alliance for Just Money (AFJM). He previously served an elected term on the national governing board of Common Cause and was a Principal with the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD).
He loves camping, hiking, walking and swimming – especially with his wife, daughter and son-in-law -- and almost everything else outdoors!
Jennie Spanos, Co-Director
Jennie Spanos (she/her) is a Co-Director of Move to Amend. Her involvement with Move to Amend began almost a decade ago as a volunteer with Pensacola and Mendocino Affiliates.
As a journalist, she observed the immense stranglehold corporate power exerts over our government and communities. This experience shaped her perspective and fostered a deep passion and focus in her organizing work on environmental, social and economic justice issues leading her to collaborate with various intersectional grassroots movements building for a just and sustainable future.
The power reaped from the insane notion of corporate constitutional rights exists in tandem with structural oppression, and environmental degradation and is found as a cause of so many injustices. Move to Amend and the #WeThePeopleAmendment strikes at the root of that reality.
She continues to live a fairly nomadic life and derives immense pleasure from spending time with her clan, creating and cultivating things, hiking and soaking in natural springs.
Katie Krasinski, Co-Director
Katie Krasinski is the fundraising director for Move to Amend. Her journey of fighting corporate greed began during the BP oil spill which ravaged her hometown and impacted her family's livelihood and health. Shortly afterwards, she joined Occupy Pensacola (the longest running encampment in the nation) where she was inspired by the hundreds of activists communing together on public land to address the many different grievances brought on by corporate control of our democracy. This awesome experience changed the trajectory of her life and gave her tremendous hope that systemic change could be made.
Katie studied Fine Arts at University of West Florida and Florida State University. And taught middle school for the Department of Defense Dependents School in Mannheim Germany. After returning from Europe, she opened an Art Studio/Cafe to support and homeschool her legally blind adopted son. During this time, she used her space to host and fundraise for her community. Some of her favorite projects during these years were hosting free summer camps for children in foster care and giving art classes to special needs adults and their caregivers.
Katie currently lives in a multigenerational 120-year-old Queen Anne Victorian with her mother (75), son (30), niece (23), nephew (15) and great nephew (3). She enjoys renovating her historic home, swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, creating art and cross-country adventures with family.