Rob Brown – Co-Director

Rob Brown is a Co-Director and one of the founders of Opportunity Maine. He has a background in statewide and community organizing, economic development policy, communications, campaigns, and the legislative process. He has served as staff for the Maine Citizen Leadership Fund and the Dirigo Alliance, helped build and staff the Taxpayers for a Fair Budget coalition, and was an organizer and project director with Food AND Medicine. He has worked with a number of national organizations, including his affiliation as a founding member of United for a Fair Economy’s Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative. Born and brought up in Millinocket, Rob is from a long line of mill workers, farmers and loggers, and was the first person in his family to attend college, first at the University of Maine and then at College of the Atlantic. He has spent much of his adult life in the Mount Desert Island region and currently resides in Liberty.

Cliff Ginn – Co-Director

Cliff Ginn is a founder, former President of the Board, and since January 2010, co-director of Opportunity Maine. He’s an attorney with a background in grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, research and policy development in a variety of areas. He has worked as a researcher and organizer for the Sierra Club, a clerk for a federal judge and a staff attorney at the Disability Rights Center, and has done work for the Maine Center for Economic Policy and Consumers for Affordable Health Care. Cliff grew up in the Portland area, and currently lives in Portland with his two children.

Alex Steed – Digital Organizer

A resident of Cornish, Steed has an interest in strengthening Maine’s education future that runs deeply. Drawn to its ambitious vision, he regularly volunteered with Opportunity Maine in his time as a student at the University of Southern Maine. A volunteer with Maine Youth Leadership, he is passionate about elevating students by helping them recognize and leverage the resources they have available to them.

From having worked with various online advocacy organizations to having taught about Internet-aided activism at USM, Steed is interested in using the Internet to make positive social change. Having worked on grassroots efforts with organizations and businesses small and large, he strongly believes in the powerful organizing prowess of the web. Focused on strengthening communities with Internet technologies, he strives to be on the cutting edge of innovations that help to take the state forward.