Lindsay Kallman, MPH

Executive Director

lkallman@csgnv.org

Lindsay is a public health specialist, activist, social justice organizer, and co-founder of Community Spring. She brings more than a decade of experience working with non-profits where she has built programs and campaigns around education, public health, and reproductive justice. She specializes in communications, program management, fundraising, and capacity building. Lindsay is a third-generation Gainesville native with an M.P.H. in global health epidemiology from The George Washington University and a B.A. in religion from Davidson College.

Lacorya Lynn

Communications Coordinator

llynn@csgnv.org

Lacorya is the Communications Coordinator for Community Spring as well as a former fellow. She is passionate about advocacy work, people-centered policy change, and community building. While being a Gainesville native, she spent the first half of her life in North Carolina. As a recent psychology graduate from the University of South Florida, she has actively engaged in advocacy and professional work centered around victim support, reproductive rights, fair housing, and educational equity in higher education. Outside of work, she enjoys drawing, playing video games, and watching cat videos.

Kevin Scott

Just Income, DIRECTOR

kscott@csgnv.org

Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Florida, Kevin is a longtime Gainesville resident with a passion for social justice and community organizing. As a 2020-2021 Community Spring Fellow, Kevin helped found Torchlighters Reentry Support and CS Direct. He is now the Project Director of Just Income GNV, the first guaranteed income project in the country by and for formerly incarcerated people. He is an outspoken advocate for criminal justice issues and prisoner rights and has been involved with Florida Prisoner Solidarity since 2016. Kevin has been a pivotal voice in several grassroots campaigns leading to policy changes around the use of prison labor. Kevin also gratefully served as a Guest Ambassador at GRACE Marketplace, a homeless services shelter. Kevin has been to every state but Hawaii, practices Zen meditation, and is the proud father of one genius daughter and two dumb cats. 

Max Tipping, ESQ

Policy Director

mtipping@csgnv.org

Max is a public interest attorney whose work has focused on policy and legal advocacy around housing and homelessness. Before co-founding Community Spring, Max was a staff attorney and Equal Justice Works fellow at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless in Washington, DC. His work with homeless families resulted in the reallocation of millions of dollars of housing funds and was featured in The Economist and Washington Post. Before law school, he served as the Executive Director of the Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry. Max received a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and a B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Florida.

Anne WOLF, Phd

Fellowship and Narrative shifting Consultant

awolf@csgnv.org

Wolf creates cultures of healing through collaborative co-design, counter-storytelling and narrative shifting. A strategist, facilitator, queer provocateur, and creative practitioner, Wolf encourages us all to consider this question: What is our dreamiest future and how do we arrive there together using practices of curiosity, wonder, and critical imagination? Wolf’s pronouns include she, they, and whatever inspires you to think most expansively about gender. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of Minnesota.

Julius Irving

Former fellow, Julius Irving is an activist, humanitarian, (r)evolutionist, and alchemist. Born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, Julius is very passionate about life, freedom, and raising the mass vibrational consciousness of the world. He worked as a field organizer for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to help get Amendment 4 passed and was featured in the New York Times twice in 2020 for his work with the Florida Immigrant Coalition around voter registration (print and podcast). He is also the owner of a tattoo business N.W.A. (NeverWorkAgain) LLC and the founder of a grassroots movement that empowers black men through exercise, education, and intellectual discourse. No matter what he has accomplished or may accomplish in the future, Julius knows his greatest creation or achievement is having children and being a father.

Tequila McKnight

Tequila McKnight was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida. A proud graduate of Gainesville High School, she is the founder of a local business called TNT Dynamite Cleaning Service. Tequila is passionate about ending the mass incarceration in Florida. As a 2020-2021 Community Spring Fellow, Tequila co-founded Torchlighters Reentry Support and a Grassroots COVID Recovery Campaign. Prior to Community Spring, she worked on the campaign for Amendment 4, which restored the voting rights for nearly 1.5 million formerly incarcerated Florida residents. As a proud mother of five children and five grandchildren, she is driven to build a stronger, more prosperous community for future generations.