Jennifer Epps

Jennifer Epps-Addison J.D. Founder & Chief Imangineer at Synergy Power Consulting Adjunct Training Faculty at The Management Center (provided management training to

over 400 movement leaders in 2023)

★ Former Network President & Co-Executive Director Center for Popular Democracy

Jennifer Epps-Addison J.D., has spent the last 25 years leading justice-centered campaigns and

organizations. Her work is rooted in community organizing, cultivating winning strategies and

advancing systems-change campaigns to transform our world and create the conditions where

we all have the freedom to thrive.

Jennifer is the Founder and Chief Imagineer at Synergy Power Consulting, a coach-collaborator

consulting firm supporting the next generation of social change leaders. Her work has been

featured in hundreds of earned media stories, across dozens of platforms, networks, and

publications.

Prior to founding Synergy Power Consulting, Jennifer served as the President and

Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Action, a $30+ million

dollar national network of grassroots power building organizations operating with more than

100 staff working across 120 cities and 34 states throughout the country.

Epps-Addison has focused her entire career on helping to make a better world possible for all

of us. Over the last 25 years, she served as the Chief Program Officer for the Liberty Hill

Foundation, a social justice foundation in Los Angeles, helped coordinate the Fight for $15

campaign as the Executive Director of Wisconsin Jobs Now, and fought to transform the

criminal legal system as a Trial Attorney at the Milwaukee Public Defender's Office.

Epps-Addison is the recipient of the 2013 Edna Award from the Berger-Marks Foundation,

which honors an outstanding young woman each year for her leadership in fueling social change.

In the same year, she was named an 'Activist to Watch' by Bill Moyers. She earned her BA in

Political Science and Women's Studies and her JD from the University of Wisconsin.

Jennifer sits on the Boards of Directors for the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, United For

Respect, Be A Hero Fund, Re:Power, Step Up Louisiana, the Forge, an online journal dedicated

to organizing strategy and practice, and the Action Lab, a movement retreat and leadership

development center.

Epps-Addison, a leader who has deep experience building power in communities from the

ground up, founded Synergy Power Consulting at a time when local community voices matter

more than ever in creating a nation-wide movement to fight for dignity and opportunity for all

people.

She brings with her a commitment to supporting and growing racial justice organizations,

especially Black-Led organizations, strengthening investments in power-building efforts in

BIPOC communities and deepening organizing strategies that build power with the white

working-class by addressing racism head-on and building authentic alliances based on shared

interests and shared values.