Colin O’Malley

Organizing Director
(716) 400-6287
Colin.MetroJ@gmail.com

Colin began organizing for social and economic justice at 17 as part of the Buffalo Activist Network, which organized against corporate globalization.  Since then he has organized for workers rights with Buffalo Jobs with Justice organizing high school students, as a regional organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, a Justice for Janitors campaign at the University at Buffalo, and most recently organized public housing tenants into Buffalo Tenants United.  He spent 2007 in Argentina learning from the Recuperated Factories Movement, and brings much of his inspiration from the movements of Argentina to his work in Rochester with Metro Justice.

Tanya Smolinsky

Operations and Development Director
Tanya_MetroJ@frontiernet.net

Tanya first got involved in Metro Justice in 2003 when Metro Justice led the way in organizing local protests against the Iraq War.  She was then hired as the organization’s first Operations & Development Director in 2005.  She has more than twenty years experience working in the non-profit sector in the areas of organizational development, fundraising, and volunteer coordination.  One of her favorite parts of her job is working with the many fantastic volunteers who give their time to help make the organization run.