Our Team

Empowering shareholders to hold corporations accountable

Majority Action is a non-profit, 501 (c) 3, non-partisan organization that empowers shareholders to hold corporations accountable to high standards of corporate governance, social responsibility, and long-term value creation.

Board of Directors

Majority Action’s Board of Directors includes Carolyn Laub, Nadira Narine, James Rucker, Sarah Weintraub and Mullissa Willette.

Meet the Team

Whitney Shepard

CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  • Whitney Shepard (she/her) is the Co-Executive Director of Majority Action. She believes systems change through our interactions with them, valuing campaigns that create opportunities for positive impact and new pathways of systemic engagement. Her background as a campaign strategist, organizer, and researcher shapes her approach to social and systemic change. Whitney has worked on local and national campaigns addressing food insecurity, mass incarceration, immigration reform, workers' rights, and Wall Street accountability. She advocates for the explicit connection to be made between economic and racial justice, and explores how economic structures perpetuate racial bias, harm and inequity.

    Whitney is also a national member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), believing wholly that learning from our past better informs our future.

Bryant Sewell

CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  • Bryant Sewell (he/him) is the Co-Executive Director of Majority Action. Through various roles at Majority Action, Bryant has been pivotal in anchoring the research and strategic decision-making that drives the organization's campaign priorities and asset manager accountability work. Bryant has led and supported efforts to engage elected officials and large asset managers to socialize the understanding that companies engaged in fossil fuel production, consumption, and financing have a long track record of business practices that disproportionately harm people of color in the U.S. and abroad. Bryant has also been the lead author of several of Majority Action's seminal reports, proxy season vote guides, and exempt solicitations that underpin the organization's campaign and investor engagement efforts.

    Bryant is a graduate of Christopher Newport University and earned a Masters of Arts from American University School of International Service.

Divya Sundar

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

  • Divya Sundar (she/her) is the Director of Research at Majority Action. Prior to joining Majority Action, Divya conducted investigative, economic, and financial analysis for several groundbreaking antitrust, securities, and mass torts class action cases at plaintiff-side law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. Divya previously served as the Lead Strategic Researcher at East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), where she used strategic corporate research to support campaigns for local labor standards enforcement, hotel worker rights, equitable development on public lands, and worker protections during the COVID-19 emergency. She also served as Research and Policy Analyst for the United Auto Workers' campaign at Tesla’s flagship factory, where her responsibilities included strategic corporate research, lobbying, and political organizing.

    Divya has an M.S. in Economics with concentrations in Financial and Public Economics from Purdue University, an M.A. in Cultural Studies and Graduate Minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Ohio State University, and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago.

Radhika Durvasula

DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS

  • Radhika Durvasula (she/her) is the Director of Program Management & Operations at Majority Action. She brings experience as a project management consultant, managing operations for a variety of businesses. She is passionate about building organizational systems that streamline processes and increase efficiency. She is dedicated to helping Majority Action succeed as the organization scales.

    Prior to consulting, she started her own e-commerce business called Jiva More Life, worked at GE Healthcare managing multi-million dollar sales, and has B.S. in biomedical engineering a from Case Western Reserve University. Radhika is based in Long Angeles, CA.

Jaylen Spann

CONSULTANT

  • Jaylen Spann (she/her) is a consultant and Public Funds Strategist at Majority Action. She is a sustainable finance strategist working at the intersection of capital, corporate accountability, workers, and community power. With seven years of experience in responsible investment, her work focuses on how investors can use their capital and influence to address systemic risks and advance more accountable corporate practices. Her work at Majority Action focuses on the social, environmental, labor, and economic implications of emerging technologies and the infrastructure powering them, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and data centers.

    Previously, Jaylen was the Head of Research at Whistle Stop Capital, where she led a team of international researchers and facilitated work on workplace equity, corporate transparency, and the financial implications of social and environmental issues. Her work included portfolio analysis, impact reporting, corporate benchmarking, and shareholder engagement with major public companies. She was a lead author of research examining workforce diversity and corporate performance and helped benchmark corporate workplace-equity disclosure across Russell 3000 companies. Across her work, Jaylen is interested in connecting investment decision-making to the workers and communities whose lives and livelihoods are shaped by corporate and financial systems. 

    Jaylen holds a B.S. in International Business from San Francisco State University.

Tyler DeVere

CONSULTANT

  • Tyler DeVere (he/him) is a strategist and systems thinker focused on building collective power and advancing social change. At Majority Action, he develops strategies to secure the resources needed to build power over institutions whose decisions shape communities and the broader economy. His work examines the intersections and storytelling of emerging technology, corporate power, social inequity, environmental justice, and democratic participation, including the system-level challenges created by AI and data-center development.

    Tyler’s broader background spans research, grants management, political and community organizing, and project management. Grounded in sociology, systems thinking, and organizing, he is particularly interested in how people can build shared understanding of complex systems, reconcile different perspectives, and translate that understanding into coordinated action.

Our Founders

Eli Kasargod-Staub

CO-FOUNDER & ADVISOR

  • Eli Kasargod-Staub (he/him) is the Co-Founder and advisor of Majority Action. He has worked at the intersection of corporate governance and corporate accountability for his entire career and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation.

    Previously, he developed engagement strategies for Majority Action's predecessor organizations 50/50 Climate Project and the Climate Majority Project, as well as led research and corporate governance initiatives at the Service Employees International Union and the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

James Rucker

CO-FOUNDER

  • James Rucker (he/him) (he/him) is the Co-Founder of Majority Action. As a technologist and entrepreneur turned activist, he leverages technology to strengthen the voices of everyday people in creating political and social change, with an emphasis on racial and social justice. James is the co-founder and former executive director of Color of Change, an online community of more than a million people amplifying Black America's political voice. James also co-founded Citizen Engagement Lab (CEL), which incubates similar initiatives for underrepresented communities. Previously, he served as Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org, playing a lead role in technology and organizing strategy.

    James serves on the boards of Color of Change, Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund, MoveOn.org, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.