Adam Gold, Finance Director
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Adam has 15 years of organization-building experience in the East Bay. He brings expertise in developing infrastructure, capacity-building, financial management and building solid membership organizations. Adam was initially trained in community organizing from Oakland ACORN in 1996-97. From there, he got involved in the youth movement, co-founding C-Beyond in Concord, an organization originally dedicated to organizing white youth against racism. In 2000 Adam moved on to help found the Youth Empowerment Center, an umbrella organization for youth movement organizations. Adam was hired as Campaign Manager for the Yes on Measure EE Campaign in 2002 and began full-time with Just Cause Oakland (now CJJC) in 2003.

Alia Trindle, Grassroots Fundraiser
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Princess Beverly Williams, Oakland Counselor/Organizer
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Beverly comes to CJJC with more than ten years of counseling and service-providing experience with low and no-income residents of the East Bay. Formerly a member of Just Cause Oakland, Beverly has been involved in the local electoral process as a county precinct worker and a phone banker with Oakland Rising.

Cinthya Muñoz, Regional Immigration Organizer
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Cinthya first came to CJJC through a summer internship at the School of Unity & Liberation and was hired as a community organizer (at St. Peter’s Housing Committee) in April 2008. She brings with her a wealth of organizing experience in immigrant rights organizing in Sacramento and Latino youth organizing in the Bay Area. She now heads up CJJC’s immigrant rights work.

Cora Garcia, Development Coordinator
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Cora grew up in Oakland’s Laurel and Fruitvale Districts and considers the city to be her second mother. She has a background in direct action organizing. Cora was born and raised within Oakland’s large urban Indian community and completed her Masters thesis on her tribe’s (Lumbee) continuing struggle with the American federal recognition process. Cora’s interests include indigenous self-determination and struggles for decolonization in the United States.

Dawn Phillips, Program Director
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Dawn has almost two decades of organizing work in the Bay Area. After graduating from the Center for Third World Organizing's Minority Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP), Dawn spent six years as an organizer, then director of the community organizing program at Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS). Dawn then worked at People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO) for six years as the executive director leading a multi-racial, intergenerational organization. PUEBLO tackled issues from environmental justice, community safety and police accountability, to youth organizing and economic justice. Dawn has also served on the boards of the National Organizer's Alliance (NOA), Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ), and the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) and is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Right to the City Alliance.

Felicia Martinez, San Francisco Operations Manager
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Felicia has helped to build program infrastructure and streamline operations in her places of employment, including the California Immigrant Policy Center and Mills College, where she earned an MFA in Creative Writing. Prior to those jobs, Felicia worked for four years teaching reading and writing skills for adult Latina immigrant students and Native American students at a tribal college. Felicia currently supports the fundraising and communications work of CJJC and oversees the general operations of the San Francisco office.

Lucia C. Kimble, San Francisco Lead Organizer
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Prior to joining CJJC, Lucia had worked for five years with youth and families of color as a trainer, conference organizer, project interviewer and program coordinator in the Sacramento area. A Latina of Mexican and Guatemalan descent, she now leads the base building and service providing team in the San Francisco office.

Lynn Vidal, Oakland Office Manager
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Lynn has lived in the Bay Area for nearly two decades and has twenty-five years of management experience. She is also a musician and writer. She has consulted for numerous retail businesses, and is currently assisting in the opening of a new comedy club in San Francisco.

Mara Uriol, San Francisco Receptionist/Counselor
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María Poblet, Executive Director
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As a former employee and co-director of St. Peter’s Housing Committee, María has ten years of experience organizing San Francisco tenants and the Latino immigrant community. María was instrumental in creating and implementing a membership and organizing structure at St. Peter’s, creating a grassroots leadership development program, and developing a movement building program in the organization. María is a founder of the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition, is the former artistic director of Poetry for the People. Most recently, she served on the National Planning Committee for the U.S. Social Forum.

Mariana Viturro, Transition Director
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Mariana has worked extensively with the low-income Latino immigrant community for more than twelve years. For the last six years, Mariana was responsible for administration, fundraising and overseeing collaborations at St. Peter’s Housing Committee. Prior to that, she was the Development Director at the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco.

Matt Nelson, Communications Coordinator
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Matt has started four successful small businesses promoting alternative economic structures including the first fair trade, worker collective café in Milwaukee, WI. He has worked as a freelance journalist as well as the editor of a bilingual weekly newspaper. Matt is also a co-founder of the Freedom Now! Collaborative, and his work related to housing justice, corporate racism, food justice and police brutality has appeared in CNN, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Black Commentator, WireTap, the Food Network, Hispanic Vista, and the Nation magazine.

Molly McClure, Volunteer Coordinator
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Born and raised in the Bay Area, Molly first became politicized through queer, feminist and global justice organizing in the 1990s. While living in Philadelphia for five years, Molly supported immigrant rights and gender justice organizing, taught sex education in public high schools, and facilitated self-defense and anti-racism workshops. Since Hurricane Katrina, Molly has been doing Gulf Coast solidarity work in and out of New Orleans, and organizing around the struggle for a just reconstruction. In addition to working at CJJC, Molly works at the Catalyst Project doing anti-racism trainings. 

Myriam Zamora, San Francisco Counselor/Organizer
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Myriam began her community work when she was 15 years old volunteering in educational literacy campaigns in Nicaragua and has continued community work for the past 40 years. Since she immigrated to this country, Myriam has worked with many community-based organizations in San Francisco’s Mission District. For the past six years, Myriam has been a housing counselor and organizer (at St. Peter's Housing Committee). She continues to work intensively on membership and leader development with CJJC.

Patricia Zamora, Oakland Tenant Counseling Coordinator
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Patricia was born in Nicaragua and raised in San Francisco's Excelsior District. She has extensive experience working with Spanish- and English-speaking youth and families through community-based organizations in the Mission District. She has worked as a peer leader, tutor, outreach worker, program coordinator, and also co-founded a queer Latina youth support group, Aquellas L.O.C.A.S. She received her college education at San Francisco State University's College of Ethnic Studies Raza Studies Department. In the little spare time she has she would love to DJ more.

Robbie Clark, Oakland Housing Organizer
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Robbie was born and raised in Oakland and brings a wealth of knowledge about the city’s residents and neighborhoods. Robbie became active in students’ rights organizing at UCLA and the affirmative action struggle that was being waged at the time. Robbie has been active in local political campaigns in Oakland such as the district campaign of Amie Allison and Ron Dellums’ mayoral campaign. 

Ruth Galvez, San Francisco Counselor/Organizer
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Ruth started out (at St. Peter’s Housing Committee) as a peer outreach worker to families living in SRO residential hotels and for the past six years has served tenants in her capacity as housing rights counselor and organizer. Ruth has extensive experience working with San Francisco community members as a long-term volunteer at the Mission Presbyterian Church. An immigrant from Yucatan, Mexico, Ruth is trilingual in English, Spanish and Mayan.

Sanyika Bryant, Regional Civic Engagement Coordinator
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Sanyika Bryant is the oldest of his parents’ six children and was raised in the city of Los Angeles. Sanyika was trained by the Labor/Community Strategy Center where he worked on the Bus Riders Union and Frontlines Press projects. He is also a graduate of the Strategy Center's National School for Strategic Organizing, class of 2003. Sanyika's ideology is rooted in Pan-Africanism, anti-imperialism and internationalism. He is also an artist and an author, and currently spends any free time he has away from his organizing duties working on his novel.

Vanessa Moses, Oakland Lead Organizer
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Vanessa’s East Coast roots involved several years of leadership development and anti-oppression work with youth in Philadelphia. Once in the Bay Area, she became active with several community and political organizations, including as staff for Bay Area Police Watch, a project of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and as a collective member with the Center for Political Education. She received a bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and was later trained as an organizer at the National School for Strategic Organizing with the Labor/Community Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles. In addition to her work with CJJC, Vanessa works with generationFIVE to help build and evolve transformative justice practices and collaboratives.

CAUSA JUSTA :: JUST CAUSE BOARD MEMBERS

Charlene Wedderburn, President

Gilda Haas, Treasurer

Jakada Imani, Secretary

Gordon Mar

María Poblet

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