Media Contacts

Sujatha Jahagirdar is the Program Director of Iowa PIRG’s and the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project. Prior to this position, Ms. Jahagirdar served as Clean Water Advocate for Environment California, a statewide environmental organization. Prior to working with Environment California, Ms. Jahagirdar coordinated the CALPIRG Student Chapters’ Water Watch Community Organizing Program and served as a campus organizer at the University of California Los Angeles. Ms. Jahagirdar graduated with distinction from Yale University with a Bachelor of Science. 

sujatha@studentpirgs.org
323-309-6120 (cell)

Ellynne Bannon is the Director of Iowa PIRG’s and the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project. For ten years, Ms. Bannon has been organizing on youth issues, mobilizing young people to vote, and training the next generation of social change leaders. Prior to becoming the director in 2007, Ms. Bannon was the chief advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee on higher education and national service issues. From 1997 to 2002, Ms. Bannon worked for the Student PIRGs as a Campus Organizer in California and Oregon, then as their national Higher Education Advocate in Washington, D.C. She served as the chair of the board directors for the Youth Vote Coalition. Ms. Bannon graduated from Rutgers College with a B.A. in Political Science. 

ebannon@studentpirgs.org
202-468-7635 (cell)