Executive Committee

The Green Party of Allegheny County elects an Executive Committee every February to carry out tasks and handle party business between General Assembly meetings. Our current officers are listed below. Feel free to contact us with questions, comments, or matters to bring up at our next business meeting.

If there is a vacancy, interested members may nominate themselves to fill the office for the remainder of the term at the next general assembly meeting.

2025 Executive Committee

Jay Ting Walker
(Shadyside)

By day, Jay Ting Walker (he/him) is a Community Organizer at a Pennsylvania environmental non-profit. By night, Jay is a proud member of the Green Party of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh DSA, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, and Bike Pittsburgh. Jay serves as chair of the Green Party of Pennsylvania and as one of its delegates to the GPUS National Committee. He studied Biology and Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he was active in environmental activism. In his free time, Jay is passionate about ultimate frisbee, board games, Starcraft, and watching soccer. 

Abi Hunter
(Shadyside)

Abi Hunter (she/her) is a software engineer who has lived and worked in Pittsburgh for five years. Born and raised in New Mexico, she attended the University of Chicago, where she received a BA in linguistics and a MS in computer science. She is passionate about education and spreading leftist ideals, ethics, and policy. 

Abi has volunteered with the Green Party of Allegheny County and Midwest Workers Association (Chicago, IL). She is a member of Alphabet Workers United. She served as the Secretary of the Green Party of Allegheny County in 2023, as a state delegate in 2022 and 2023, and as a national delegate since 2024. Her vision for a 2025 term is to develop sustainable and durable organizing practices in the party that surface opportunities for all members to play to their strengths, and use and develop their organizing skills.

Stacy Flinn
(Greenfield)

Stacy Flynn (she/her) is a socialist and thinks the planet and people come before profit. She is an anti capitalist and anti fascist as well, and thanks other Greens for allowing her to  serve in this role.

Kelly Kuzemchak
(Mount Washington)

Kelly (she/her) has been volunteering with the Green Party of Allegheny County since 2018, having held several leadership roles at the local, state, and national level. Positions held:

Colleen Schmotzer
(Penn Hills)

Working Groups Coordinator - workgroups@alleghenygreens.org

Colleen (she/her) was a Co-chair for Abandon Biden (Harris) Campaign, where they held weekly meetings and they organized, went to protests, and distributed flyers. They also came up with strategies to let others know about third party ballot options. 


She also was a team lead for Allegheny County in helping collect signatures for Dr. Cornel West and later helped collect signatures for Dr. Jill Stein, in addition to helping plan Dr. Jill Stein's two day visit to Pittsburgh in late October 2024.


Colleen am currently pursuing my bachelor's degree in psychology, and she is in two honor societies. She works in the Healthcare industry and is an active member in the Green Party. When Colleen is not busy with her volunteer duties, she enjoys spending time with her family and their dog.

Riley Mahon
(Downtown and Upper St. Clair)

Neighborhoods Coordinator - neighborhoods@alleghenygreens.org 

Riley (he/him) has extensive experience with the Green Party despite his young age, serving as GPoAC Media Coordinator, delegate to the Green Party of PA, GPPA Steering Committee member, Green Party US alternate delegate, co-chair of Connor Mulvaney’s campaign for Pittburgh City Council, and even running for school board himself!

Riley is very passionate about growing the Green Party into a force for change in Allegheny County, and he is experienced in running campaigns, participating in actions, and acting as a liaison to other similar groups. He is fully committed to the cause of building the Green Party, ready for the responsibility, and Riley believes that the GPoAC is at a point now where we can set fairly ambitious goals for outreach, inreach, fundraising, and candidate slates in local elections.

Riley has been on the Executive Committee since 2022 and has been Working Groups Coordinator for the past year. He has been working on getting university groups formed and has successfully formed one at Point Park. 

Theron Gilliland, Jr.
(North Side/Allegheny Center)

Technology and New Media Coordinator - media@alleghenygreens.org

Theron (he/him) is a 45-year-old biomedical research scientist working in the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh. As a radical social progressive, his activism currently focuses on racial justice, supporting police and prison abolition, opposing military interventions/economic neo-imperialism, and fighting for protections for the transgender community.

Theron is involved with several groups is support of these values: Democratic Socialists of America, the Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance, and the Pittsburgh Anti-War Committee. Theron is also active in March On Harrisburg--organizing in support of statewide ranked choice voting and a ban on legislative gifts--in alignment with the Green Party's ideals of Grassroots Democracy. In addition to his career-oriented and political interests,

Theron is a nontheist Quaker, and he enjoys biking, kayaking, camping, and hiking; reading about ancient Near East history; learning languages from around the world; and spending time with his boyfriend Rashod.