Sam Menefee-Libey

Advocacy Associate

Sam is the LGBTQ Advocacy Associate at Campus Progress. He recently graduated from Willamette University with a B.A. in critical theory and social justice. Before joining CAP, he spent time fighting poverty as an AmeriCorps member in New York City with City Year; fundraising in Los Angeles with the Fund for Public Interest Research; building power for LGBTQ people as an intern with the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute and an organizing fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washington, D.C.; building youth movement as a New Leader with the Center for Progressive Leadership and as a grassroots organizing trainer with the United States Students Association; and contributing research as a student and social researcher in Nicaragua with the School for International Training and in Salem, OR, with Willamette's politics and gender studies departments. Sam has focused his activism on a broad spectrum of issues of economic and social justice including queer rights, antiracism, antisexism, social justice and diversity in higher education, community and global justice, popular education, and sustainability and environmental justice. He also enjoys (and dedicates embarrassingly large amounts of time to) music, film, and literature.