FOUNDER

Leonora Camner is Executive Director of Abundant Housing LA, a pro-housing advocacy and outreach organization. As the first staff member in 2019, she successfully led the effort to advocate for the Coastal Plan at the Southern California Association of Governments. She previously served on the Santa Monica Housing Commission.

Outside of Abundant Housing LA, Leonora is a mom of two girls. Previously, she was an attorney working in the non-profit sector to defend tenants from eviction. Additionally, she worked for the No on Measure LV Campaign in Santa Monica against an extreme anti-development ballot measure. She graduated from the University of Texas School of Law. For undergraduate studies, she attended New York University.

FOUNDER/ADVISOR

Mike Draskovic is a media producer and advocate from Los Angeles, CA. He is the co-founder of the Democracy Policy Network, an interstate policy infrastructure for deepening democracy, and Los Angeles for Democracy Vouchers, a campaign for an open campaign finance system in LA. In 2015, he founded Ovrture, a digital content studio, where he produced content for MSNBC, A&E, and various YouTubers. He spent five years at The ONE Campaign, a global anti-poverty advocacy organization, where he managed creative policy campaigns. He was a 2017 New America California Fellow and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Mike is a graduate of the University of Southern California, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

FOUNDER

Wayne Liebman is a physician, playwright, and community organizer. In 2020, he founded Public Access Democracy to advocate for a democratic system more representative of, and responsive to, its citizens. Public Access Democracy seeks to invest political power in deliberative citizen groups chosen by lot -- just as juries are. As a result of Public Access Democracy’s advocacy efforts, the city of Petaluma, California, has convened the first municipal citizens’ assembly in the state, to recommend a plan for the future use of its municipal fairground--a contentious issue that had been plaguing the city for several years.