Yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of meeting a crew of amazing ONE volunteers who had worked for eight hours before the DC U2 show signing up thousands of new members. I posted the first batch of their profiles here, below are profiles of more outstanding volunteers.

Deidre Bennet is from Rockville, MD, and has been a ONE volunteer for at least three years. She’s met with her Maryland representatives many times to talk about ONE’s issues, hosted a ton of events, and most recently, signed up new ONE members at the Virgin Festival. She said that today she’d already signed up people from all over – including from Florida, Pennsylvania and even Puerto Rico.

Matt lives in DC now but is originally from California. He works full time on the issue of climate change but he took the day off from his job to volunteer for ONE. He’s been energized by how enthusiastic people have been when he tells them about ONE. (Side note, Matt got a text message during the day alerting him that he was an uncle. Congratulations Matt!)

Nancy Delgado (on the right above) has been a ONE member for some time but this was her first time helping out in person. She got an email from Matt Higginson asking for local volunteers, and she jumped right in!

Kimberly Richer (on the left above) is from Centerville, Virginia, and has been a ONE member for at least four years. She helped set up a meeting with Congressman Wolf in July. When I talked to her she had already signed up at least 75 new people.

Maria lives in DC and has been a ONE member since the Live 8 concerts in 2005. She’s volunteered a lot since then, including helping delivery Water for the Poor Act petitions to the Congress this summer and signing up new members at the Islamic Society of North America Convention over fourth of July weekend this year. I chatted with Maria while she recharged the RED laptop she was using to sign up new members around the FedEx Field parking lot.

Evan Haaz is from Texas but lives in DC now. This was his first time volunteering for ONE. He said that he doesn’t usually get involved with causes but that he made an exception for ONE and said he was having a really fun time.

Abby is a student at Johns Hopkins. She said she’d been a ONE member for a while, and U2 fan all her life — and this was her first time volunteering with ONE.

Kim Rogers (who we somehow didn’t get a photo of from the day) is from Iowa and lives in DC now. She did a lot of volunteering for ONE in Iowa during 2008 elections, including a bunch of work around the Iowa straw polls. She said that everyone had been really receptive at the show. Her best victory of the day? She signed up a couple from Austria who have been following the tour since Europe. They’ve been to every show, but Kim was the first volunteer to finally sign them up!

-Ginny Simmons