Angela Peoples currently serves as a Policy Analyst at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau where she works to increase consumer protection for student loan borrowers. Prior to joining the Bureau, Angela was the Policy and Advocacy Manager for Campus Progress, the youth organizing arm of the Center for American Progress. In her role at the Center for American Progress, Angela coordinated issue campaigns on the national, state, and local levels covering a range of issues from gender neutral housing to increased funding for need based student programs. Angela also served as legislative director for the United States Student Association where she worked with consumer groups to enact student friendly program integrity and college affordability policies on the federal level. She is a graduate of Western Michigan University where she studied Political Science and Africana studies.

Vincent Paolo Villano is the director of communications at the National Center for Transgender Equality, responsible for the organization's media strategy and brand management. Vincent joins NCTE from the Center for American Progress where through the youth organizing arm, Campus Progress, he executed over 150 political, cultural, and advocacy events that advance progressive policies in higher education, climate change, immigration, and LGBT equality.

Vincent is a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and 2008 graduate of the American University School of Public Affairs, where he received a high honor for his research on LGBT youth and intergroup relations. As a past board member of the DC Youth Pride Alliance, he launched the Wanda Alston scholarship fund for Metro DC LGBTQ youth. Vincent is a 2009 New Leaders Fellow at the Center for Progressive Leadership, and a 21st Century Fellow with the Pipeline Project.

Barrie resides in Ward 5 and served 4 years as a Commissioner in ANC5C.  He is currently an Ex-Offico member of DC Democratic State Committee and has served as the Finance Chair, since first being elected in 2009.  Barrie is originally from Rhode Island where he attend the Wheeler School before attaining his B.S. in Finance from Marist College in New York where he worked with Lee Miringoff the director of the Marist Poll, a well know nationwide political and public opinion polling group. He is an accountant and financial services executive with over 25 years experience in banking and financial systems working for various Fortune 500 firms such as American Express, Fleet Financial Group and Putnam Investments.   

Since moving to the District in 2005, he has spend the last 8 years in the affordable housing sector working for Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and now the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development where he manages financial and grants systems. Besides working for various democratic candidates in New York, Rhode Island and here in the District, he is also the founder of BarDel International, LLC; a high quality lighting company whose clients include the W Hotel, Washington DC; Hip-Hop producer, Russell Simmons; and many others. 

Jimmie Luthuli is the Operations Manager at a health care advocacy non-profit organization that seeks to build alliances between businesses and labor in the process of implementing the Affordable Care Act. She is serving her second term as Secretary of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club. Originally from Texas, Luthuli participated in Houston Stonewall Young Democrats and volunteered her time phone banking and canvassing for LGBT equality in Texas. Jimmie worked for the Texas Legislature as both a Policy Analyst and the Chief of Staff for State Representative Dora Olivo.

Following her move to the nation's capital city after working her third session in the Texas Legislature, Luthuli immediately became active in the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and Women's Information Network (an organization for pro-choice Democratic women). She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Pomona College in Claremont, California and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.