Cole Graber-mitchell
Organizing Manager, Students Demand Action at Everytown for Gun Safety
Newport, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolCole Graber-mitchell is an organizer and researcher with 11 years of experience turning grassroots energy into policy-focused campaigns and structural change. Currently Organizing Manager for Students Demand Action at Everytown for Gun Safety, Cole combines field leadership with a background in political organizing, climate justice, and community arts governance. Academically grounded with advanced studies at LSE and SOAS and a BA in Mathematics and Law from Amherst, they bring interdisciplinary rigor to strategy and research. Cole also contributes to open-source Rust tooling—helping maintain the widely used rust-clippy linter by refining lint rules and improving code quality—showing a hands-on technical curiosity not typical of organizers. Based in Newport, Oregon, they bridge activist strategy, academic research, and practical engineering habits to build durable campaigns. Colleagues describe Cole as a pragmatic systems thinker who prefers improving processes over flashy interventions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MRes, Law, MRes, Law at SOAS University of LondonBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst CollegeLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (6)
linting10
code-analysis10
rust10
lint10
software-design9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-clippy
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 5 PRs, 37 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cole primarily contributed to the `rust-clippy` repository, a Rust linter project, by deprecating and removing outdated lints, and preventing the application of certain lints on private methods. They also made changes to the `methods.rs` and `types.rs` files, indicating involvement in the implementation of linting rules and logic. These commits reveal a focus on code quality and maintenance within the Rust codebase.
linterlintrustlangmistakes
cgm616/VolumeBar9
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:10 releases, 73 commits, 20 pushes in 1 month
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