The Solidarity Lowell Coordinating Committee (SLCC) is your elected team of volunteers running the meetings, organizing events, disseminating relevant news, and sharing calls to action. Elections are held every April.
The Coordinating Committee members for 2025-2026 are:
- Amy Baranoski: Amy runs the Mill City Messaging postcarding events, assists with the newsletter, and is a database manager extrodinaire. She is on the board of Progressive Mass.
- Joe Boyle: Joe keeps track of City Council agendas to make sure we know about important items. He has been involved in many local campaigns, such as Vesna Nuon for City Council, Susie Chhuon for City Council, and Tara Hong for State Rep.
- Marissa Dupont: Marissa originally started our newsletter, until stepping back to manage Lisa Arnold’s campaign for State Rep. She recently began publishing this new version of our weekly newsletter, and is on the board of Merrimack Valley Project.
- Ryan Hammond: Ryan joined the SLCC two years ago but has been a part of Solidarity Lowell since its inception in 2016. He organizes our Demonstrate, Dine, and Discuss events.
- Sreyvan Nget: Sreyvan joined the SLCC last year. She is involved in many local organizations, such as Mill City Grows, Coalition for a Better Acre, Lowell Alliance, and DIY Lowell. She was also recently given the Volunteer of the Year Award from DIY Lowell!
- Ryan Oates: Ryan joined the SLCC last year. He has made many excellent videos for Solidarity Lowell, Progressive Mass, and LLAMA, and is a member of the Sustainability Council. He organizes canvassing and phonebanking.
- Chris Offerman: Chris has a long history of advocacy including Amnesty International and Greater Lowell for Peace and Justice. She spearheads our immigrant rights efforts and bakes excellent German cookies.
- Mitchell Paulin: Mitch joined the SLCC two years ago. He has worked on many political campaigns here in Lowell, most recently for Tara Hong for State Rep, and his own race for Democratic State Committee in 2024. He is the Ward 7 Chair for the Lowell Democratic City Committee.
- Ron Peacetree: Ron is involved in nearly every left-leaning group in the Merrimack Valley, including a few chapters of Indivisible. He has worked on campaigns for Alexandra Chandler for Congress, Tara Hong for State Rep, and many ballot measures.
If you are interested in joining the SLCC, please email us, and attend the April 28th meeting (5:30pm on Zoom) to tell us about yourself and why you’d like to join. If you can’t attend the meeting, just send us a brief statement and bio about why you want to join and what activism/political/non-profit/other relevant experience you might have. Three of us are up for re-election in 2024 and there are an additional three open seats. We would love to have your perspectives represented in our leadership!
Being on the SLCC involves:
- Two (1-hour) SLCC meetings a month
- One (1.5-hour) general meeting a month
- Checking our Discord server once a day
- Attending meetings with our elected officials
- Helping out at additional events (such as DDD, postcarding, tabling at local events, as well as our City Council Candidate Forum) if possible
- Miscellaneous tasks (helping schedule meetings with reps, speaking at City Council meetings, etc.).
Each member of the SLCC gets a vote regarding decisions that need to be made (whether to support legislation outside of the Progressive Mass agenda, whether to hold additional events, etc.) in addition to other membership privileges such as voting on endorsements. Terms are for two years, and during the first year we ask that you complete the Unpacking Whiteness Dialogue Group (or similar) if you are white. Questions? Please email us at contact@solidaritylowell.com.