Bryan Mercer is a founding member and serves on the steering committee of 215 People’s Alliance. In this role he helped design and lead a campaign to end the state take over of Philadelphia public schools and run a grassroots GOTV effort to set ending mass incarceration as a priority of the Philadelphia District Attorney. Bryan is also Executive Director of Media Mobilizing Project, where he’s supported dozens of local and national campaigns through strategic media and communications over nearly a decade. Bryan received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in Anthropology and Comparative Ethnic Studies.