Lissy Romanow

Lissy Romanow is the Director of Momentum Training Institute. "She was first introduced to social movements at the age of 17 as a participant in the City School’s Summer Leadership Program. She was a fellow with the Jewish Organizing Initiative & Network, and a lead organizer with Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, where she worked to amplify some of the largest grassroots legislative and electoral campaigns in the state. In 2014, she attended her first Momentum training, joined the visionary staff of the Ayni Institute, and co-founded IfNotNow. In 2017, she became Momentum’s first Executive Director. She is honored to support the Momentum community’s brilliant leaders and to learn from the history of social movements which taught us how to change what’s politically possible."