Organizing Team
Liano Sharon
Liano has been a progressive activist since the early 1980s, involved in human rights, environmental, working-class, and anti-war activism among other causes. He has over 25 years’ experience in cross-cultural communications, where he’s brought many stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, cultures, languages, priorities, and interests together to solve problems large and small. Since 2016 Liano has been working to ensure fair, inclusive, transparent, and democratic rules in the Michigan Democratic Party.
He has served 4 years on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), 8 years on the Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) State Central Committee (SCC), 4 years on the MDP SCC Executive Committee and 4 years on the MDP SCC Rules Committee, where he helped negotiate, draft, and push through the largest package of rules reforms in state party history – all of them in the direction of greater fairness, inclusion, transparency, and democracy. In 2018 he ran the Dana Nessel campaign for the Party endorsement/nomination; during which he organize the largest membership drive in State Party history, doubling Party membership from around 10,000 to around 20,000, and tripling turnout at the State Convention from the typical ~2,000 convention attendance to 6,700. Nessel won both the raw count and the weighted count, by double digits.
At the 2024 Democratic National Convention he was one of only three National Committee delegates to stand up for universal human rights and an end to genocide on the floor of the Convention.
Relevant writings:
2020 Progress Report
2023 DNC Report
Why Harris Lost in 2024
Dan Hesse
My name is Dan Hesse. I am a 34-year-old organizer in Grand Rapids and an advocate for reform within the Democratic Party. I have been heavily involved in political activities since 2018 and bring experience in working with people with differing views, class levels, races, orientations, and from Urban, Suburban, and Rural environments. I have served numerous different roles in various organizations and worked on a number of Democratic campaigns where I’ve been involved in nearly all aspects.
I strongly believe that our party needs to do more to address the needs of the working class and to take steps to draw new members from the ranks of young people, low-income people, and marginalized communities. I believe that Joe Biden never should have run in the Primary for the 2024 election and our current DNC leadership was complicit in nontransparent practices that have caused many from outside our party to not trust us. I also believe that a much larger effort needs to take place to connect Democrats across Michigan and for the superdelegates to act more as representatives. In this past year, I ran for County Commissioner in Kent County and I was happy to have had conversations with thousands of people at doors and at events. If elected, I promise to be a hard worker for making positive change in our party and for helping to secure more Democratic victories.
My website for my County Commission race is still active at https://www.VoteDanHesse.com
I also welcome you reaching out by email or phone with any questions.
Thank you