RINCONADA PARK | PALO ALTO | JUNE 14, 2025

Joan Baez is a world-renowned singer, songwriter, poet, artist, and activist. Her career in both music and activism spans more than six decades, and she has supported social justice causes that range from civil rights to environmentalism, and from opposition to the Vietnam War to LGBT rights. 

Elijah Bendiner is a student of psychology at Palo Alto University, as well as a writer and an artist. For the past seven years, he has worked with queer and trans communities in Colorado and Massachusetts. Currently, he is collaborating with a group of 15 transgender authors on an anthology that will be published in October.

LaDoris Cordell is a retired judge of the Superior Court of California. She was the first African American woman to sit on that court in Northern California. Her book, Her Honor, chronicles her decades of work to fight racial segregation and other forms of injustice.

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and also serves as senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Melissa Dinwiddie is the founder and chief catalyst of Indivisible Palo Alto Plus. In her professional life, she works with a wide array of leading organizations to help people and teams break through creative barriers and drive groundbreaking innovation.

James Holland Jones is an evolutionary anthropologist and demographer in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. His research employs computational and mathematical models to investigate human adaptability and sustainability.

Alison Kamhi is the legal program director at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), based in San Francisco. She leads the ILRC’s Immigrant Survivors Team and frequently provides training and technical assistance on a wide range of immigration issues.

Sam Liccardo represents California’s 16th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives—a district that includes Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, and other parts of Silicon Valley. Previously, he served as the major of San Jose. 

Michelle Oberman is the Katharine and George Alexander Professor of Law at the Santa Clara University School of Law. Her book Her Body, Our Laws: On the Frontlines of the Abortion War from El Salvador to Oklahoma focuses on the impact of abortion regulation in countries with widely divergent abortion laws.

Kathy Sherman teaches the power and joy of music to young people (and their grown-ups) in the Palo Alto area. During the first Trump administration, she recorded an album called Let’s Sing! Songs for Little Activists, Let’s Sing! Songs for Big Activists.

Across the Holler is the folk-rock-soul duo whose members—Simon Scott and Elana Dussé—live “across the holler” from each other in Woodside, California. With rootsy instrumentation and rich harmonies, Across the Holler delivers heartfelt originals and reimagined classics with a timeless, back-porch spirit.

The Sisters of Harmony have been harmonizing together in the Bay Area for nearly 30 years. The Sisters, formerly known as Hey Mom!, draw on diverse musical backgrounds that encompass jazz, coffeehouse folk, bluegrass, Greek, and Klezmer. They combine these elements into create a large repertoire and a unique sound.

Indivisible Mid-Peninsula works to protect and strengthen our democracy by resisting the MAGA agenda, advocating for policies that promote equity and social justice at all levels of government, supporting vulnerable communities, and building a powerful grassroots movement to achieve electoral victories in 2025 and beyond.

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus (IPA+) is a diverse, action-oriented community that works to defend democracy across the San Francisco Peninsula and beyond. It combines grassroots activism with joy, bringing together people of varied backgrounds and perspectives to stand against authoritarianism and to protect democratic values. 

Indivisible Portola Valley is dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions by protesting, showing up at town halls, calling and writing elected officials, supporting efforts to uphold the rule of law, promoting constructive conversations with all voters, and staying informed to avoid disinformation.

It's Blue Turn (Mountain View) focuses on driving electoral change by engaging in key state legislative, U.S. House, and Senate races. It also works to resist Trump's destruction of America by preserving voting access, fighting disinformation, and supporting Democratic Party infrastructure in rural districts.

Bend The Arc unites progressive Jewish voices across America in a multiracial, multiethnic, intergenerational movement to build a future free from white supremacy, antisemitism, and racism.

Menlo Park Speaks Out is a grassroots community group that works to defend democracy and uphold the Constitution through peaceful, visible, and regular gatherings. It aims to inspire civic engagement, foster connection, and show that the values of justice, freedom, and democratic governance matter deeply in our community.