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Samantha Smart Merritt, Development Coordinator, is a long-time community activist and organizer around social justice, community economic development, and progressive political issues.  She has done extensive research and organizing work centered on illuminating a gender-based analysis of social systems with a view toward creative transformation of dominant paradigms.  She brings more than twenty years of experience in development, raising funds for a wide variety of organizations including electoral campaigns, community-based technology, and workforce development.  Samantha is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in Government.