Rooted in community. Committed to change.

Action in Montgomery (AIM) is a broad-based community power organization rooted in Montgomery County’s neighborhoods and congregations. We are non-partisan, multi-faith, multi-racial, and dedicated to making our county and state a better place to live and thrive.

You’ll find us working for change: door-to-door and in living rooms, in churches and classrooms, in front of the County Council and at the State House in Annapolis.

AIM began in 1998 when clergy and lay leaders came together to discuss how to address the growing pressures on families in their congregations.

AIM believes in the ability of people to take leadership and transform their communities.  AIM is committed to training and developing neighborhood leaders so that they can change the economic and social structures that affect their lives. We believe in building for power: power that is reciprocal, that is tempered by our religious traditions, and power that creates a table that includes more people in the dynamics of public life.

AIM Member Institutions

Staff

Estefani Rondon

Associate Organizer

Estefani Rondon started with AIM in June of 2022 and is AIM’s new Associate Organizer. She was born in Lima, Peru and immigrated to Maryland, U.S. at nine years old. While she has traveled and lived all over the world in places like Brazil, Japan, France and New Zealand, however, she feels most at home where she grew up, drove her first car, and bought her first home -- in Montgomery County, Maryland. She attended one of the few Trinity College of Art & Sciences - an all women’s college, where she received a BA in Political Science and Economics. Her graduate studies focused on Gender Issues in War through a Master’s in International Security Studies at Trinity Washington University and a Master’s in Education through the University of the People. She has spent the last 15 years working in youth development, higher education and supporting students with learning differences. She is fluent in Spanish and is re-learning her ancestor’s language: Quechua. She lives in Montgomery County with her husband and three dog children.

estefani@actioninmontgomery.org

Tanushree Dutta Isaacman

Lead Organizer

Tanushree Dutta Isaacman has been an organizer with AIM since 2017. She was born in Bangladesh and immigrated to England and then the U.S, living in Louisiana, Brooklyn and New Jersey. She graduated from Cornell University, after which she went to Nicaragua with the Peace Corps. After returning to the U.S. she received her master’s degree from the New School, and worked for USAID as a Senior Program Analyst in Latin America, including top level work on the unaccompanied child migration crisis. At AIM she has won real victories for the survivors of the Flower Branch gas explosion and fire, for students and families in high poverty elementary schools, and individuals facing deportation. She is fluent in Spanish and Bengali, and lives in Montgomery County with her husband and two young children.

tanushree@actioninmontgomery.org

Cynthia Marshall

Executive Director

Cynthia Marshall has been a community organizer since 2005. She cut her teeth on organizing at AIM, leading a campaign that won $29.7 million to build recreation centers in historic African American communities. She was the Lead Organizer for AIM's sister organization, People Acting Together in Howard, leading campaigns to create a youth conservation corps employing 45 young adults each summer, going door-to-door to sign up 400 low-income citizens get affordable health care, and winning $17 Million for low-income seniors to receive care at home instead of an institutionalized nursing home settings, among other campaigns. She took the lead on building our statewide Agenda on jobs, affordable housing, after-school programs and reducing gun violence. She has also worked on non-partisan Get Out the Vote Campaigns in Ohio and Maryland. Before she started organizing, Cynthia was a Wilderness Instructor at Outward Bound. She earned a Master's degree from Harvard’s Graduate School in Education, and her B.A. at Carleton College. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two children.

cynthia@actioninmontgomery.org

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Communications Director

Community Organizer

We are seeking a talented content creator who will help reinforce current organizing strategies and develop new communications strategies to help us persuade, engage, organize, and win campaigns that make a significant impact in our communities. Communications with members, potential members, allies, donors, voters and community decision-makers. Excellent writer, multi-platform producer and editor. A candidate with strong written and visual storytelling skills; someone who is effective at producing photos, graphic design and video. We are looking for someone who is creative and collaborative and quick to deliver compelling — and shareable — content. A deep commitment to social justice and racial equity rooted in building the power and leadership of community leaders is a must. LEARN MORE

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