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Chuck Collins, Senior Fellow
 Chuck Collins is the Senior Fellow with Class Action. He is responsible for media, communications and research.
In 1995, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) with Felice Yeskel, who is now the Co-director of Class Action. He is currently Senior Fellow at UFE, a national non-partisan organization that draws attention to the dangerous consequences of growing income and wealth inequality in the US and inspires action to reduce economic inequality.
In 1997, Collins co-founded Responsible Wealth , a project of United for a Fair Economy, to bring together business leaders and investors to publicly speak out against economic policies and corporate practices that worsen economic inequality. Recently, he coordinated the Call to Preserve the Estate Tax, signed by over 3,000 prominent Americans including Bill Gates Sr., George Soros and others.
Recent books include:
- Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (Beacon Press, January 2003) with Bill H. Gates Sr.,
- Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity . (The New Press, 2000) with Felice Yeskel (New Edition Fall 2005).
- Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the American Wealth Gap (1999) with Holly Sklar and Betsy Leondar-Wright.
- The Wealth Inequality Reader , co-editor (2004)
He is author of numerous other books, reports and articles on economic inequality, housing policy and social change funding. He is on the Editorial Board of Dollars and Sense magazine and the board of Sojourners magazine.
His commentaries have appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, Providence Journal and many other daily newspapers . Articles have appeared in The American Prospec t, The Nation, Christian Science Monitor and numerous other periodicals. He is a commentator on NPR's "Marketplace."
He has a B.A. in History & Economics, Hampshire College (1984) and a Masters in Community Economic Development, University of Southern New Hampshire (1987). He lives in Boston with his spouse, the Rev. Patricia Brennan and their daughter.
Jennifer Ladd, Staff Associate
 Jennifer Ladd, Ed.D is a philanthropic advisor, coach and trainer. She has worked with people with earned and inherited wealth for over 25 years. She has a doctorate in education and has spent many years in elementary education and teacher training in the fields of global, cross-cultural communication and anti-bias education. She works closely with Responsible Wealth, a program of United for a Fair Economy. Read Jenny's Manifesto here.
Zoe Greenberg, Associate and Filmmaker
Zoe is the Writer/Director/Producer of "Enough: A Kid's Perspective", an  11-minute documentary film that explores issues of wealth, poverty, and what is "enough" through interviews with Philadelphia kids. She made the film when she was twelve, but she is
sixteen now, and a junior at Springside School in Philadelphia. After the film was made, she teamed up with Felice Yeskel and co-led workshops for both kids and adults about the film and the issues it raises.
Her work garnered her the 2007 Princeton Prize for Race Relations in the city of Philadelphia. She has been featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Jewish Exponent, and some other
places too. This year she is presenting to local teachers at the Multi-Cultural Resource Center in Philadelphia, as well as co-leading a workshop at the National Association of Independent Schools. She was inspired by Demetri Martin on the Daily Show and
has now become Class Action's trendspotter.
She is the middle of five siblings and she therefore does not need pets.
Peter Redington, Educational Programming Associate
Peter grew up in the historical, affluent town of Concord, Massachusetts before embarking on a journey into education that has taken him from the Social Studies classroom of the rural North Country town of Canaan, Vermont to the ropes courses of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in the Boston Harbor. Somewhere along the way, he heard someone talking about privilege and oppression, and he hasn’t been able to stop thinking about that since.
He lives down a dirt road in Wendell with his wife and dog. When not discussing social justice issues, they enjoy following the Red Sox, reading by the woodstove, and wandering about in the woods.
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