Will Tanzman

Will has been organizing since 1999 and has been an organizer with The People’s Lobby since it began in 2012. Will’s accomplishments include organizing The People’s Lobby’s successful campaign to raise the minimum wage for tens of thousands of low-wage workers across a number of Cook County suburbs, leading a campaign of mass actions and civil disobedience that played a major role in the closure of $125 million in corporate tax loopholes in Illinois, and serving as one of the lead organizers on the campaign that ended cash bail throughout Illinois starting in 2023. Will grew up in Chicago and began organizing as a high school student in the Chicago Public Schools, where he started an organization of students across the state working for a more just education system, successfully changing citywide standardized testing policies and practices. To get in the mood for a direct action, Will is always up for Rage Against the Machine.