Ida V. Eskamani is a first-generation Iranian-American and the daughter of working people. In her 14 years of organizing, Ida has built multi-issue solidarity coalitions, legislative champions, and successful campaigns challenging multinational corporations and extremists.
As the Senior Director of Legislative Affairs for State Innovation Exchange (SiX), Ida is advancing racial, gender, and economic justice in state capitals across the country by building people-centered governing. In her role, she manages SiX's team of State Directors and the organization's 50-state Economic Power Project. Before joining SiX, Ida was Policy Director for Florida For All, the state's statewide alignment table. Before that role, she was Legislative Aide to Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, Florida's first LGBTQ+ Latino legislator.
Ida has organized on countless intersectional fronts, from LGBTQ+ rights to housing justice and combating abusive preemption. Ida believes power can be built everywhere and that solidarity is our movement's superpower. Ida earned dual degrees in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Central Florida, as well as a Master's in Public Administration from the same University. She has served on several volunteer boards locally and statewide, and in her free time, Ida is a freelance music writer for the Orlando Weekly. Her twin sister is Representative Anna V. Eskamani, and they proudly call Orlando, Florida home.