Zuretti Goosby, President
District Office Director & Field Representative, Senator Wesley Chesbro
Eureka, California
Previous to his legislative and public work with Senator Chesbro, Zuretti served as Executive Director of the Yurok Tribe and of the Redwood Community Action Agency. He volunteers his time expertise with local and national organizations, including the Volunteer Center of the Redwoods, the Open Door Community Health Centers, the Humboldt Arts Council and the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center.
Patricia Ellsberg, Vice President
Kensington, California
Patricia is a social change advocate with decades of experience in the peace, energy and social justice movements. As wife of Daniel Ellsberg, who first gained fame as the Pentagon nuclear strategist who released the so-called Pentagon Papers, Patricia has been at the center of many of the most intensive foreign policy debates over the past three decades.
David Hitchcock, Treasurer
Founding Partner, Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Sharples, & Hall
Arcata, California
David specializes in small business and nonprofit consulting and has been instrumental in the birth and success of many alternative enterprises in the Humboldt Bay region of Northern California. He holds a BS in Mathematics and a PhD in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has taught Business Administration in the California State University system.
Carolyn North, Secretary
Founder, Daily Bread
Berkeley, California
Carolyn is a dancer, author and movement teacher whose innovative initiatives have produced remarkable results in a wide range of fields. She founded Daily Bread, a project staffed entirely by volunteers that collects surplus food from restaurants and delivers it to food banks throughout the Bay Area. She is also the owner/designer of the first code-approved straw bale house in California.
Deborah Mendelsohn
Writer; Partner, Development Resources Group
Duncan, Arizona
Deborah Mendelsohn is a lifelong social activist and a practitioner of media arts in both the commercial and humanitarian spheres. She has had careers in commercial dramatic film and television in the US and in the development of non-governmental broadcast media in countries around the world. For ten years she headed program development for Internews Network. She now works as an organizational development consultant with Development Resources Group and especially likes to help small, mission-driven groups with their strategic planning and communications. In 2004 Deborah founded WeCanDo - Womens Economic, Cultural and Networking Development Organization -- a womens leadership training program in Northern California that emphasizes cross-race, cross-class, and cross-generation awareness and action. She holds a graduate degree in comparative religions and remains interested in religious and spiritual paths of all kinds.
María Martin
Independent Radio Producer
San Antonio, Texas
María brings more than twenty years experience in public broadcasting, including as founding producer of National Public Radios Latino USA. María worked as Latino affairs editor and western affairs editor at National Public Radios national desk and was a coordinating producer for special projects. She has worked as a freelance reporter and independent producer for radio stations and networks. María has received numerous awards, including the Gabriel Award, the Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Affairs Reporting, a Fulbright Fellowship and the International Knight Press Fellowship.
Marylyn Paik-Nicely
Director, MultiCultural Center, Humboldt State University
Arcata, California
Marylyn received her Bachelor of Arts with an Interdisciplinary major in Asian Studies from Ohio Wesleyan University, Certificate of Study in Journalism (Public Relations emphasis) from Humboldt State University, and is presently working on her doctorate in Organizational Leadership and Management at the University of LaVerne. She serves as President Elect of the California Council of Cultural Centers in Higher Education. Marylyn was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii and still calls Hawaii home.
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