Peter Robins-Brown
Executive Director
Peter has been the executive director of Louisiana Progress since 2021, and has spent nearly a decade working in Louisiana politics and organizing. Over that time, he has served as a campaign manager, lobbyist, community organizer, and communications consultant.
Since joining Louisiana Progress, Peter has led our work to pass numerous state and local laws, establish and grow our College Fellows program, and build and deepen partnerships across the advocacy and political landscape, including with the Louisiana AFL-CIO and its affiliates. Before joining our team, he worked for the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, Step Up Louisiana, and the Unanimous Jury Coalition.
Along with serving as the Executive Director of Louisiana Progress since 2021, Peter Robins-Brown also serves as the Assistant to the President of the Louisiana AFL-CIO and as the organization's Legislative & Political Director, where he focuses on policy and political advocacy work with the state's 55 union affiliates. Peter has spent more than a decade working in Louisiana politics and organizing, where he has led campaigns to pass numerous state and local laws, trained and mentored dozens of college students, and built and deepened partnerships across the state. In his free time, Peter enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters.
LaToya Johnson, LMSW
Campaign Strategist
LaToya Johnson, LMSW, is deeply committed to weaving together her diverse skills to drive meaningful change in Louisiana. Her journey has taken her through roles as a nonprofit executive director, human resources and administrative agent, anti-racist labor organizer, and clinical and forensic social worker. This unique blend of experiences fuels her work as a strategist and movement builder, dedicated to uplifting marginalized communities through strategic organizing, policy advocacy, and social justice initiatives.
With more than 13 years of dedicated service in the nonprofit and public sectors, Toya brings to bear a wealth of expertise in management, fundraising, community and labor organizing, program development, political education, and local and state policy development and advocacy.
Our Staff
Dr. Angelle Bradford Rosenberg (Gelle) was born and raised in Baton Rouge. Upon returning to Louisiana after earning her bachelor’s degree at the Ohio State University, she settled back into Southeast Louisiana living. A volunteer at heart, Angelle is a formally trained cardiovascular physiologist and medical scientist with a PhD from the Tulane School of Medicine.
Named Emerging Changemaker of the Year in 2022 for the Sierra Club, Angelle has served on the Sierra Club Delta Chapter's executive committee for more than eight years, and has led the Transit Equity Team through legislative sessions, campaign development, and the first Louisiana Transit and Planning Summit. She also helped revive the chapter’s political committee, supported volunteers, and built out their youth organizing initiative by advising HBCU students through their education, community care, and environmental awakening with the Sierra Student Coalition at Southern University.
Along with her work with the Sierra Club, Angelle has also been a lead organizer with the Louisiana chapter of Moms Demand Action, volunteered and lobbied with Louisiana Progress, and played a lead role in partnerships with community groups and universities.
Angelle Bradford Rosenberg
Campaign Strategist
Elai Levinson
Policy and Operations Manager
Elai was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and enrolled Louisiana State University after finding out that his grandfather attended in the late 1930s.
Elai first joined Louisiana Progress as a college fellow in his freshman year after learning about the organization through his professor and Louisiana Progress board member Melissa Flournoy. He remained a part of the college fellows through his graduation from LSU and was heavily involved in crafting Louisiana Progress's auto insurance report.
Elai lives in Baton Rouge and spends his time watching baseball, and playing rock music with his band.
