Meet Dera…
Dera joined Common Cause as the Regional Communications Strategist for the east in December 2022. Prior to joining Common Cause, Dera was a communications manager at American Oversight, an ethics watchdog nonprofit specializing in FOIA and public records. Her primary focus was getting documents received through FOIA from the Department of Homeland Security and its subsidiaries as well as the state governments of Georgia, Florida, and Texas into the hands of the journalists who needed them. She graduated from Boston University and is based in Boston.