Cathy Howell
Template:TOCnestleft Cathy Howell is an Oregon activist. She retired from the AFL-CIO in 2011 where she was a field organizer and leadership development coordinator since 1997. Before joining the AFL-CIO, she spent over 20 years as a community and issue organizer in Oregon and in the southern USA.
She grew up in a small Quaker State Refinery town in western Pennsylvania, and now lives in Salem in Marion County. She is passionate about social and economic justice and organizing people to fight for fairness. Cathy is looking forward to spending time post-retirement building and strengthening the human dignity organizing in Marion County. She divides her time between Salem and El Salvador, where she is a volunteer at the Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad. She teaches English to Salvadorans working in social movements and helped organize delegations of international observers for the February 2014 Presidential Election and the 2015 Congressional and Mayoral elections in El Salvador. She is studying Spanish in an effort to strengthen her ability to work more effectively in Marion County and El Salvador. [1]
Board
Rural Organizing Project board as of 2015;[2]
- Keyla Almazan – Yamhill County
- Darcy Bedortha – Crook County
- Alex Budd – Josephine County
- Dancer Davis – Douglas County
- Cathy Howell – Marion County
- Cristina Hubbard – Lane County
- Joe Lewis – Columbia County
- Bruce Morris – Deschutes County
- Josefina Riggs – Redmond, Deschutes County
- Hannah Sohl – Jackson County