Our Team

A few members of our team (please email us and say hi!):

Nikki Serapio (nikki@ourpledge.org), Executive Director and Political Advocacy Coordinator, has been involved in Darfur organizing since early 2005. He is responsible for AADG’s Congressional and Executive Branch advocacy campaigns, and facilitates face-to-face meetings with elected officials and their staffers around the country. In 2006, Nikki helped write a high-profile Open Letter to President Bush—the appeal was signed by an ideologically diverse group of eighteen foreign policy experts, and was handed directly to the executive administration during a White House meeting between the President and Darfur activists. He also helped organize a May 2006 Darfur Op-Ed published in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune. He is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition.

Nikki is from Greenwood Village, Colorado. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Stanford University.

Gabriel Stauring (gabriel@ourpledge.org), AADG’s Grassroots Field Director, is Co-Founder of Stop Genocide Now (SGN) and the coordinator for Camp Darfur and i-ACT. With Camp Darfur, a traveling mock refugee camp and genocide exhibit, he has gone around the country, creating awareness and action in an effort to help stop the genocide in Darfur. He has visited the refugee camps on the Chad-Darfur border three times, webcasting daily video-logs and allowing the survivors to tell their own stories and to interact with people from around the world through SGN’s project, i-ACT (interactive activism). Gabriel’s family has also become actively involved in the cause. Through grassroots activism, Gabriel and the SGN community are working to change the way the world responds to genocide.

Gabriel has a Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science, and lives in Redondo Beach, California.

Elissa Test (elissa@ourpledge.org) is AADG’s Community Outreach Director. She was the primary organizer of the April 30, 2006 Day of Conscience for Darfur, in which over 5,000 U.S. citizens participated in a vigil on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. She has extensive experience working with California’s faith communities on Darfur advocacy, and is currently a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition. As Outreach Coordinator, she helps to manage a growing team of dedicated volunteers, all of whom are responsible for resourcing churches, synagogues, mosques, and other community groups across the country.

Elissa comes from a family of Holocaust survivors. Her work and her story have been featured on NBC and ABC News, and in The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Jose Mercury-News. She is a graduate of Stanford University, and currently lives in Palo Alto, California.