Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights runs cutting-edge, solutions-driven campaigns for justice, peace and opportunity in our cities. The nationally-renowned Green-Collar Jobs Campaign works to leverage the explosive growth of the new green economy to create meaningful career opportunities for poor people and people of color.
In Oakland, the Campaign anchors a multi-sector coalition called the Oakland Apollo Alliance and spearheads a local demonstration project — the Oakland Green Jobs Corps — to showcase job training that can provide "green pathways out of poverty." Statewide, the Campaign advocates for green-collar policy solutions for California, in partnership with major labor, environmental, business, and education institutions, that can create many thousands of good jobs as well as a strong infrastructure for green workforce development.
Nationally, the Campaign played a central role in the passage of the federal Green Jobs Act of 2007, which authorizes 5 million annually for green job training, with million specifically allocated to "pathways out of poverty" programs.
Ella Baker Center Staff & Board
Ella Baker Center boasts a staff of more than 20 world-class human rights activists and advocates. It is the quality of the people at Ella Baker Center, who come from all walks of life and from all over the country, that makes what we do possible.
Executive Team[1]
Executives:
- Jakada Imani Executive Director
- Shemika Skipworth Operations Director
- Kris Lev-Twombly Associate Director
- Jessica de Jesus Development Director
- Kristin Hau'oli Schillinger Communications Director
Books Not Bars Team:
- Zachary Norris, esq. Books Not Bars Director
- Sumayyah Waheed, esq. Books Not Bars Policy Director
- Joyce Cook Books Not Bars Organizer
- Lourdes Duarte Books Not Bars Organizer
- Jennifer Kim Books Not Bars Associate
Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Team
- Ian Kim Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Director
- Evelyn Rangel-Medina Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Policy Director
- Emily Kirsch Bay Area Organizer
- Chris Reyes Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Statewide Organizer
Soul of the City
- Nwamaka Agbo Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Policy Director
Heal the Streets
- Crystallee Crain Heal the Streets Project Coordinator
Development Team
- Madelein McCormick Development Associate
- Laura Nasca Finance Assistant
Communications Team
- Hayes Morehouse Director of Information Technology
- Abel Habtegeorgis
Administrative Team
- Melinda Morris Bookkeeeping
- Kalani Gage Administrative Coodinator
Board of Directors
- Belvie Rooks Vice President of Special Projects, Carrie Productions
- Diana Frappier, esq. Co-Founder, Ella Baker Center
- Glenn Backes Public Policy Researcher and Consultant