New Green Horizons Editorial Board
The primary role of our Editorial Board oversees the process from a piece being submitted through editing and revision to submission. But the board also oversees and realizes the day to day operations of New Green Horizons in areas of administration, web management, promotion, and other areas.
In addition to our Editorial Board, Green New Horizons also has an Advisory Board that meets to give feedback, suggestions, and advice to the Editorial Board regarding the functioning and strategy of the publication.
Chris Blankenhorn
Springfield, IL
Chris Blankenhorn has been involved with the Green Party since 2013 and is a former GPUS Co-Chair (2016 – 2018), served as the Social Media and Tech Director for the Hawkins/Walker campaign (2020), and has held a number of other roles at the national, state, and local level. Chris has a degree in political philosophy and has worked as a community organizer and an educator.
Cam Gordon
Minneapolis, MN
Cam has been active in the Green Party since 1994 as a founding member of the Green Party of Minnesota.
Born in 1955, he grew up in Minneapolis, MN, graduated from the University of MN in 1977 and subsequently completed graduate programs in Montessori teaching and Early Childhood Education at the College of St. Catherine. In 2005, after an unsuccessful run in 2001, Cam was elected with the Green Party endorsement to the Minneapolis City Council, Ward 2. He was reelected in 2009, 2013, and 2017, serving 4 terms as the council’s minority leader and only Green Party member before losing his reelection campaign 2021 and leaving office on January, 2022.
He was regarded as a principled and future-focused leader on council who worked cooperatively to bring people together to make the city a more just, democratic, peaceful, and sustainable place. Among the work done during his 16 years as a council member, Cam is most often recognized for his accomplishments in the areas of racial equity, housing, civic participation, public health, climate & environmental sustainability, transportation, violence prevention, police accountability, and youth development.
Before serving in elected office, he worked as a teacher in public and private settings, including operating a small music education, child care, and publishing business. He has worked as a community organizer, musician, and journalist. He was associate editor of the nationally distributed trade newspaper, Public School Montessorian, and editor of the neighborhood newspaper, the West Banks pages for the Seward Profile. He is the author of Together With Montessori, an introductory guide to Montessori education, which is now in its 7th printing.
Cam has also served on various volunteer boards including as state party chair of the Green Party of MN, chair of the Seward Neighborhood Group, founding member of FairVote Minnesota, and as a board member for Common Cause Minnesota, the Neighborhood Revitalization Program Policy Board, and the Minneapolis Center for Neighborhoods. He is delighted to now be serving on the editorial board of New Green Horizons and looks forward to continuing working to respect and leverage our diversity and use our shared values to make this a more peaceful, democratic, sustainable, and just world for everyone.
Rick Greenblatt
San Diego, CA
Rick Greenblatt is an ecosocialist, a Green Party activist and organizer, and a retired tech worker.
Howie Hawkins
Syracuse, NY
Howie Hawkins has been involved with the Green Party since it’s first US meeting in 1984 and was the Green Party presidential nominee in 2020. A prolific author and organizer, Howie has been active in movements for civil rights, peace, labor, and the environment since the 1960s.
Renee Johnston
Union County, NJ
Renee Johnston is an abolitionist, political education event organizer, and former educator and union member. She currently serves as a committee chair for the Green Party of NJ, and is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace. Renee is also a co-host for a weekly show (Saturdays with Renee) on Black Liberation Media (blkliberationmedia.org) and community journalist for Public Square Amplified. You can also find many of her musings and rabbit hole research on isyourlifebetter.com.
Mike McAllister
Milwaukee, WI
Recording Secretary, Wisconsin Green Party. NC Alternate. Socialist since high school. Fighter for independent left politics since 1976. Green since 1999. Member, Solidarity, and the National Writers Union.
Diane Moxley
NJ
Diane Moxley has been an active member of the Green Party of New Jersey since 2013. Diane has been practicing law in North Jersey for over 22 years. Throughout the duration of her career, she has served low-income clients, primarily in the areas of tenants’ rights/eviction defense and family law. Diane also assists with legal observing and legal support for the activist community in her area. Diane’s activism has taken her across the country and around the world, from Standing Rock to Palestine.
Justin Schoville
Bethel, VT
Justin is a Vermont licensed attorney. He was previously a member of the Green Parties of Maryland and Virginia. Now he is part of the Young Ecosocialists. Currently, he is state chair of the Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party, an anti-war socialist party. He is running for US Senate for Vermont.
Garrett Wasserman
Pittsburgh, PA
Garret Wassermann has been an active member of the Green Party since 2016 and is a former Steering Committee Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States (2021 – 2023), Editorial Board Member and contributor for the party newspaper Green Pages (2021 – 2023), ballot access coordinator for the Green Party of Pennsylvania (2020 – 2022), and other roles at the national, state, and local levels.
Steve Welzer
Princeton, NJ
Steve Welzer has been a Green movement activist for over thirty years. He was a founding member of the Green Party of New Jersey in 1997 and he served on the Steering Committee of the Green Party of the United States in 2012. A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Steve holds a master’s degree in Economics from Rutgers University. He was a co-editor of the print version of Green Horizon Magazine and is currently a GP candidate for US House in New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District. As a side gig he’s actively working to establish an ecovillage in Kimberton, PA.
Jubalyn ExWilliams