Leigh-Anne Cole is the New School Organizing Director for the Student PIRGs, working with students in Arizona, California, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and Ohio to create new student chapters. Ms. Cole has been helping students start new PIRG chapters for more than five years. She successfully worked with students at University of Colorado-Denver, the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, the University of Southern Maine, and the University of Southern California to establish fully funded new student PIRG chapters.  Ms. Cole graduated from Fordham University in 2002.