Staff

Jeremy Schroeder is an attorney with an extensive background in nonprofit and public service. He was the deputy legislative director of an 85,000 member union handling their legislative and policy campaigns. Jeremy has extensive experience running legislative and grassroots campaigns on the state and federal level. During his tenure with the union, he was able to win legislation for first-time ever health care, as well as increased wages for the union members. Jeremy is also the volunteer Legislative Coordinator for Amnesty International in the state of Illinois. Through this position, Jeremy has coordinated grassroots lobbying efforts on issues such as abolishing the death penalty, Darfur, and stopping violence against women.

Jeremy is a graduate of the University of the District of Columbia School of Law, focusing on international law and landlord tenant law. He also holds a degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University. Prior to law school, Jeremy worked in the non-profit sector in roles of advocacy, development, and information technology.

Jeremy can be contacted at jeremy@icadp.org.

Liz Moran has been a grassroots organizer for a variety of union, policy, and political causes throughout Illinois. She studied politics and labor history at the University of Illinois at Springfield. 
Liz first learned about the campaign to repeal the death penalty in Illinois in 2002 as an intern at the Heartland Peace Center in Springfield, where she teamed up with Amnesty International to host a teach-in with a former death row inmate who was wrongly convicted.

Liz can be contacted at liz@icadp.org.

Beth Berendsen has been a political and community organizer across the country for the past six years, including work on campaigns to raise the minimum wage in Ohio in 2006 and most recently advocating to increase access to housing resources in Northwest Chicago. She first became involved in death penalty abolition work during her high school years in Columbus, and graduated from Hiram College in Ohio in 2003.

Beth can be contacted at beth@icadp.org

Mara Forster-Smith graduated from Macalester College with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and African Studies. Over the past few years she has spent time abroad in West and East Africa, doing work for non-profit organizations mainly in the area of communications. Mara's work at ICADP entails office management, communications, and website administration. She will be with us for one year of service through the DWELL/Young Adult Volunteer Program of the Presbyterian Church USA.

Mara can be contacted at mara@icadp.org