The Appleseed Foundation serves as Appleseed’s network office, facilitating collaboration throughout the Appleseed Network, supporting collective capacity building, and sowing the seeds of justice by launching new Appleseed centers. For a directory of staff at all Appleseed justice centers, please click here. We look forward to hearing from you!
Benet has been a member of the Appleseed family since 2009 when he served as the Harvard Law School Kaufman‐Skirnick Fellow for Appleseed’s immigrant financial access project. He led Kansas Appleseed from 2013 to 2019, and joined the national Appleseed office as executive director in June 2020. After a decade in the Appleseed Network, Benet continues to be inspired by the Appleseed promise to confront deep-rooted injustices through community-driven, systemic advocacy.
Sarah joined the Appleseed Network in 2019 as a Princeton Project 55 Public Interest Fellow. As the Director of Network Collaboration, Sarah strives to connect Appleseed justice centers around common goals and ideas in order to build capacity and expand the strength of Appleseed’s advocacy efforts. Sarah lives in Seattle, WA where you can often find her enjoying the nature of the PNW, reading alongside her cat, learning a new skill, or cooking a new recipe.
Quentin is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana native who joined Appleseed Network in 2022 with over a decade’s worth of experience in non-profit and campaign communications, most notably having served as Communications Director for the national civil liberties organization Defending Rights & Dissent and as the Chair of the 2018 My Louisiana Equality & Equity Summit. As a graphic & web designer at heart & burgeoning video ad maker, Quentin often volunteers his talents to local progressive causes in his home state, such as building a website for a statewide transit reform campaign or filming interviews and B-roll footage for a prison reform documentary. In his spare time, Quentin enjoys watching football or Marvel movies with his pup, Geronimo Lewis, exploring the metaverse in VR, and attempting ill-advised DIY furniture projects on the weekends.
