About

Tara Stafford is a community organizer, filmmaker, and musician based out of Los Angeles, CA.  Tara graduated with      honors from the USC School of Cinema-Television with a minor in International Relations.  She has spent most of the last 3 years working as an Organizing Director for CALPIRG, building grassroots support for issues ranging from clean energy to poverty to campaign finance reform.  In addition to getting wearepower.org off the ground, Tara also currently works as an organizer with Arts for LA, an arts advocacy organization, and is a performing sax player and singer-songwriter around the LA area.

Raychel Espiritu is an actress/activist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. In May 2008 she graduated from California State University, Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in theatre. While attending CSUN, Raychel had a student assistant position as a Volunteer Coordinator for the Community Service and Volunteer Program. There she organized student involvement in events related to service and awareness. Since then, Raychel has made a commitment to bringing awareness to the mainstream; thus her involvement with wearepower.org.