DaMareo Cooper is coexecutive director at the Center for Popular Democracy. He is an Ohio-based grassroots organizer with deep roots in racial justice and electoral campaigning at local, state, and national levels. DaMareo was formerly the national organizing director of BlackPAC, a political action committee dedicated to engaging and mobilizing Black voters across the country, where he assisted in contacting over six million Black voters in the 2020 presidential election and the Georgia Senate run-off election. Before that, he served as executive director of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative and Stand Up for Ohio.