Jeanne Massey, Executive Director

Jeanne Massey is Executive Director of FairVote Minnesota, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works for better democracy through public education and advocating progressive voting systems that lead to greater competitiveness, better representation and more participation.  She led the successful 2006 Ranked Choice Voting ballot measure effort in Minneapolis and has been leading FairVote MN since 2007.

Jeanne has more than twenty five years of experience in leading nonprofit organizations and in consulting in community planning, social service delivery systems, and organizational development. She served ten years as the director of Bloomington-based South Hennepin Regional Planning Agency. She holds a master’s degree in Regional and Community Planning from Iowa State University and a bachelor’s degree in Business and Spanish from the University of Northern Iowa.  Following undergraduate studies, she served in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica.  She is active in her community and has served on several community and nonprofit boards, including the Kingfield Neighborhood Association, the I-35W Access Project Advisory Committee and the Resource Center of the Americas.  

Consulting Team

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Newsletter and Communications: Susan Maas

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Interns

Carrie Blakslee, a 2008 graduate of Political Science and Art History at the University of Minnesota. Carrie was an MPIRG volunteer and worked on the Ranked Choice Voting campaign in Minneapolis in 2006. She recently returned from Montana, where she worked for the Glacier National Park. Carrie says she's glad to be back in Minnesota and active in electoral reform.

Lauren Bergal, a Duluth native and first-year student of Political Science and Mass Communications at the University of Minnesota. She cut her political teeth as a volunteer for Emily Larson's successfull 2011 campaign for Duluth city council and as an intern will help lead FairVote Minnesota's efforts to engage young voters in the movement for Ranked Choice Voting.  Outside of class and politics, Lauren is an amateur photographer and a section leader in the  University Marching Band.

Previous Interns

Graydon Francis

Betsy Rajala

Connor Mcnutt

Lubna Khatoon

Pema Khando

Xinyi Wei (Whitney)

Melanie Sedqui

Luke Belant