The members of Project Vote’s Board of Directors represent a mix of individuals who bring business and academic expertise, as well as leaders from the low income communities and communities of color which Project Vote works to empower. They provide strategic direction and oversight for the organization.

Donna Massey, President of the Board of Directors, is a life-long resident of Arkansas, residing for the past 20 in Little Rock. An employee at a FedEx shipping center, she is also a member of the Pulaski County Quorum Court and Justice of the Peace for the 6th District. She uses these elected positions to advocate for greater investment in youth programs. A grandmother with four children of her own, Ms. Massey worked her way through her local community college and is currently pursuing an MBA. In her free time she is a singer with the local group “Blue-Eyed Soul”.

Maxine Nelson, Vice-President of the Board, is a registered nurse in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She has over 35 years of experience as a leader for social justice and civil rights in Arkansas and the United States. She has served as a member of the school board and City Board of Directors in Pine Bluff. Ms. Nelson is also a long-time board member at KABF radio, a community radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Sunday Alabi, Board Treasurer, has been working in community organizing for more than 20 years. A naturalized citizen, and for twenty-five years an employee of the University of Minnesota, Mr. Alabi has spent his career as a community activist working on a variety of campaigns, including fighting against predatory lending and helping to start the Minnesota living wage initiative, which became a model for national action on the issue. Mr. Alabi lives in Minnesota.

Margaret Groarke is an Associate Professor of Government at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, where she teaches American politics, especially electoral politics, and European politics; Ms. Groarke also directs the college's Peace Studies program. Ms. Groarke earned her BA at Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, and her PhD at the City University of New York. Ms. Groarke is co-author, with Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine Minnite, of Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters.  She is an active member of the board of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, which has engaged in broad-based, membership driven, social justice community organizing in the Northwest Bronx for the last 35 years. Ms. Groarke is also an active member, and current co-chair of, the Peace and Justice Studies Association, a North American organization devoted to bringing together academics, K-12 educators and activists to engage in research and advocacy for a more just, more peaceful world.

Lorraine C. Minnite has taught American and urban politics at Barnard College since 2000.  Prior to that she was the Associate Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.  Her research is concerned with issues of inequality, social and racial justice, political conflict and institutional change.  Prof. Minnite has consulted with various labor, advocacy and governmental organizations which have relied on her expertise in voting, public policy and demographic patterns in New York City. An experienced survey researcher, Prof. Minnite has published on various aspects of political participation, immigration, voting behavior and urban politics, and is finishing a book on the politics of electoral rules tentatively titled, The Politics of Voter Fraud.  With Frances Fox Piven and Margaret Groarke she is co-author of Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters, forthcoming from The New Press.  Prof. Minnite holds a B.A. in History from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the City University of New York.