Who is With Many Hands

Tomás Garduño is founder of With Many Hands and author of Fundamentals of Electoral Organizing. He is a long-time organizer for justice with over 25 years of experience that spans issues, states and types of organizing. Tomás comes from a long line of people who work the land. He’s a New Mexican who spends most of his time in the Hudson Valley of New York. He loves an underdog story and is always looking out for the little guy.

The Fundamentals of Electoral Organizing is an offering to the movement for justice. It’s for working class people who want to organize other working class people in our shared interests of building political power. Think of it as a strategist’s guidebook, or an operator’s manual. Keep it in your back pocket, it just might come in handy.

He has worked as a community organizer, campaign manager and strategic advisor for two dozen grassroots social justice organizations, a dozen independent expenditure electoral campaigns, a handful of working class candidate campaigns and several institutes/universities. His most formative experiences were his time as co-director of the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) and organizer of the People’s Climate March.

Jeneva Martinez aka Drama Mama is an international park and derby skate coach. Jeneva is native to SE New Mexico and raised in Roswell, NM. Jeneva enjoys gardening, creating and selling her jewelry at the local gallery. Jeneva is a breast cancer survivor and underwent a double mastectomy in her 20’s and loves to share her story of survival to other young women. Last and definitely not least Jeneva is a wife, a proud mom of 3 sons and 2 grandsons.

Vic Gómez lives in their great-grandmothers house in the South Valley of Albuquerque. Vic comes to us as the Organizing Director at OLÉ. Now, as an organizer at With Many Hands, they bring the passion to build power with working people. Working people far outnumber the wealthy — together we can win real change led by us, as experts. Vic is dedicated to creating space for everyone. Vic loves walking their 2 pit-bulls in the Rio Grande Bosque.

Courtney McCary is originally from a small town in Texas and is a wife and mother of four children. Courtney now calls New Mexico her home and has absolutely fallen in love with the Land of Enchantment. Courtney’s greatest passions in life are her faith, family and farm and she is an avid believer that life’s challenges are opportunities to respond with creative change.

Abby Vlaun was born on an island in Southeast Alaska and has always considered herself to be a lover of nature. She’s lived in Alamogordo for most of her life and enjoys the desert climate. She’s a mother, an artist, and values civic engagement as well as community involvement. She strongly believes that when we work together, we can accomplish so many great things.