About Fair Wisconsin

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Fair Wisconsin and the Fair Wisconsin Education Fund Staff

Glenn Carlson, Executive Director, is retired from previously being a partner at Arthur Andersen, LLP.  He is a former president of the Fair Wisconsin Education Fund board.

Bill Conway, Deputy Executive Director: "From Superior. Any more questions?"

Christine Callsen, Finance and Communications Director, has a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Administration degree.  She is from Cleveland, OH, and has been involved in political and nonprofit organizations for 7 years.

Brad Braaten is a longtime resident of Madison.  He volunteers for Fair Wisconsin as a Workplace Giving and Grants Mangager.

Mary Sykes, Office Manager, lives on the east side of Madison with her partner of 14 years. She joined the Fair Wisconsin (then Action Wisconsin) staff at the end of 2004 and rode the waves of the 2006 campaign.  Prior to working for LGBT rights, she worked for many years in the disability rights movement. 

Jean Wennlund, State Field Director, is from Madison and looks forward to working with all the amazing volunteers around the state.

Teddi Hereid, a finance intern with Fair Wisconsin, just finished her first year at UW-Madison majoring in political science and African Languages and Literature. She grew up in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.

Penny Bruskin is currently interning at Fair Wisconsin for the summer after graduating from UW-Madison with a B.A. in Women's Studies and Political Science and a Certificate in LGBT Studies. This fall, Penny will be working with Milwaukee Public Schools and WI DPI as an AmeriCorps VISTA member.

Updated August 2008