About EOPA

Co-Founder of Code Blue Water, is a retired veteran with over 20 years in service. A founding member of the US Air Force’s Mobility Support Advisory Squadron, he served as Assistant Director of Operations and Planning and as Chief of Partnership Development in Peru, focused on advancing international security. Deputy Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Army on operations, logistics, and security, he was awarded the Bronze Star medal for meritorious service in Iraq’s southern region. In 2015 he served as Campaign Manager for California’s 3rd State Senate candidate championing water security and veteran homelessness initiatives. He holds a MBA in Strategy & Innovation and Operations & Management

served on the Energy Utilities and Technology and Legal and Veterans Affairs committees. He won the REED award for the best national Public Affairs Campaign for his work co-founding Operation Free, a coalition of lawmakers and military veterans promoting energy security. He is a senior advisor to the Veterans Campaign, Partner with the Truman National Security Project, and founded the Maine New Leaders Council. His value-based communications, empathy-based fundraising, and EQ & Public Leadership trainings are requested worldwide. He is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco. Alex served in the Marine Corps infantry for seven years and is currently a PAO with the Navy Reserve.

an award-winning independent reporter, social media researcher, a contributor to The New York Times, BBC, Al Jazeera, and AJ+. Recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of their 30 Under 30 in the Media Category for 2017, she is a Fulbright Fellow, UN Press Fellow, Truman National Security Project Partner, and was named one of Google Zeitgeist’s top 30 Great Young Minds of Our Time. The Shorty Awards for Social Media recognized her as one of the Top 10 Journalists of the Year. In the Pacific, she has documented the life of climate refugees. Anna was awarded the James Foley World Press Freedom Award for international reporting and press freedom advocacy at the National Press Club.

serves as Executive Director of Maine Insights newsmagazine, which she founded in 2005. A published author, photographer exhibited worldwide, and illustrator, Ramona is cofounder of the non-profit Solon Center for Research and Publishing and opened the art gallery Fukurou. A public relations specialist, she’s led numerous communication campaigns. In 2018, she led Elected Officials to Protect America organizing 80 veterans who are lawmakers from 50 states to successfully reauthorize the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. 

In 2012 Dominic founded Elected Officials to Protect New York, a bipartisan initiative uniting and coordinating more than 1,000 local elected officials to successfully ban fracking and achieve New York’s renewable energy goal of 50 percent by 2030. An eight-time delegate to the United Nations climate negotiations, he is a Climate Reality Project Presenter trained by Al Gore and trains elected officials nationally on climate for the Young Elected Officials Network and Local Progress

Naweed brings a versatile background to the table having led multi-sector and complex projects and programs with United Nations, USAID, private sector in a civilian capacity and strategic and multifaceted national programs with international partners supporting the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces in a military capacity reaching the rank of colonel before the fall of Kabul in the hands of Taliban. Prior to joining EOPA, Naweed was director general for the Afghanistan National Police’s Veterans’ Affairs department overseeing support and outreach to over 130 thousand police families across the 34 provinces of Afghanistan.

Debbie Sariñana has served House District 21 in Albuquerque since 2016. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from New Mexico State University, and her Master’s in Secondary Education – Mathematics from the University of New Mexico. Debbie currently serves on the Veteran Affairs Committee, the Energy, Natural Resources & Wildlife Committee and the Education Committee. Sariñana previously served in the U.S. Air Force as a computer programmer at White Sands Missile Range. Debbie previously worked as a math teacher at Manzano High School in Albuquerque.