Contact CAG

WV-CAG
1500 Dixie Street
Charleston, WV, 25311
304-346-5891

Gary Zuckett, Executive Director

Linda Frame, Program Manager  linda@wvcag.org  

Julie Archer, Project Manager, julie@wvcag.org  

Robin Wilson, Project Assistant

Don Alexander, Web Dude   paradox@spectrumz.com 

Staff Bios

Gary Zuckett (Executive Director) joined CAG in 1995. He most recently coordinated CAG's participation in the successful coalition West Virginians United to Protect Social Security. He also serves as the office's technical expert (nerd) on databases and computer maintenance. As development director, he fostered our affiliation with the national USAction, which has led to the growth of our organization and increased the scope of our work. Currently he serves as president of West Virginia Community Shares (a United Way type agency for progressive non-profits). He is a past president of the WV Environmental Council, and was coordinator for the WV Citizen's Health Care Reform Coalition. He is on the boards of the WV Environmental Council, Southern Appalachian Labor School and the Commission on Religion in Appalachia. Gary's published articles include "Dirty Money vs. Clean Elections" and "Why Money Doesn't Equal Free Speech." Gary has first-hand knowledge of the problems created by money in politics through an unsuccessful campaign for the WV House of Delegates in 1994, and through years of lobbying efforts on behalf of the WV Environmental Council, CAG, AFSCME and other organizations. Gary is Chair of West Virginia's newest political party, the Mountain Party.

Linda Frame (Program Manager) joined CAG in 1998. She helped produce many of the PERC reports and press releases, especially during the 1999 and 2000 Legislative Sessions in West Virginia. She currently runs CAG's Bottle Bill campaign which models laws in 11 other states and would put a refundable deposit on beverage containers. She edits the Capital Eye, CAG's newsletter, and maintains our e-mail action alert system for our members. She is currently working on updating and expanding our e-mail and on-line donation systems. Linda is a former board member of the WV Environmental Council where she was the treasurer for 5 years. She has an M.S. in Environmental Science and Public Policy and has worked on environmental and social issues for 12 years. She lives in Charleston with her husband Mike, their sons Donald and Josh, and a multitude of pets.

Julie Archer (Project Manager) She manages the PERC-WV databases on contributions to West Virginia political campaigns for our joint project with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) and WV-CAG's sister organization, the Mountain State Education and Research Foundation (MSERF), helps produce reports based on the data, and handles requests for campaign finance information.  She also lobbies for WV-CAG during legislative sessions.  Her other political experience includes lobbying for the Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club and working as an intern for the Equality State Policy Center in Wyoming.  She is a former member of the WV Environmental Council board of directors. She has also served on the board and staff of WV FREE, a statewide organization that advocates for reproductive rights.  She grew up near Parkersburg and attended Shepherd College and Marshall University. She lives in Lincoln County with her husband Terry and their many dogs and cats.  

Robin Wilson (Project Assistant) joined CAG in the Summer of ‘07. He organizes CAG's anti Iraq War campaign with US Action. including sign and bumper sticker distribution, conferences, petition drives, a Capito’s Missing campaign, plus demonstrations, articles, films, books to amplify a peace message. He also works on an independent project - WV Peace News Net - to link a broad spectrum of individuals and groups involved in peace action. Robin is on the board of Heartwood in the Hills, Roane County Community Development, WV Economic Justice Project, and WV Patriots for Peace. His peace activities started with working to ban atmospheric nuclear testing, followed by war tax resistance – protesting military spending and living on a non-taxable income in intentional communities / communes. During the Vietnam War, he said no to the draft and sat in to block shipments to the Vietnam War effort. Recently he has worked as a teacher and social worker helping students for whom public school didn’t work. In addition to trying to change policies that support an unsustainable world, he enjoys personal choices of biking, using solar energy, and growing a vegetable garden and orchard with his wife Brenda.

Marge Michau (Outreach Coordinator) joined CAG in 2004. In 2004, she led CAG's voter registration and Get Out the Vote effort and medical malpractice campaigns. She currently works on CAG's campaign to protect Social Security. In addition, she coordinates CAG's volunteers and makes sure the office doesn't come crashing down. Marge lives in Charleston.

Don Alexander (Website Lackey) has been attending to CAG's website since 2002.  Don is a renegade physicist with electronic and computer skills who has been weaning himself from repairing electronic paraphernalia by managing websites for several non-profit organizations, including OVEC and WVEC.