Causa Justa/Just Cause
Causa Justa/Just Cause received grant funds from the McKay Foundation in 2006. The organization is dominated by members and supporters of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
Causa Justa sister organizations
In 2021 Shaketa Redden was interim exective director of Causa Justa/Just Cause. Causa Justa/Just Cause July 8 2021·
So many of our sister organizations on both sides of the bay have worked hard over the years to make change possible. We lift you up, as we celebrate our tenth anniversary, organizing, plotting and strategizing because we know that #OrganizingGetsTheGoods. Join our virtual anniversary event Connect. Rise. Create: Celebrating Our Legacy, Forging Our Future on Thursday, July 29 – 6-7PM. Link to purchase tickets is in our bio. https://bit.ly/CJJCRise
Right to the City Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), PODER (SF), Bay Resistance, Bay Rising, LeftRoots, It Takes Roots, Anti Police-Terror Project, Ella Baker Center, San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition.
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Coordinating Committee
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Coordinating Committee, as of 2015;[1]
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network (Mei-ying Williams, Miya Yoshitani
- Black Workers for Justice (Ajamu Dillahunt, Angaza Laughinghouse)
- Causa Justa/Just Cause (Maria Poblet)
- Community to Community Development (Tara Villalba, Edgar Franks)
- East Michigan Environmental Action Council (Diana Copeland, William Copeland)
- Indigenous Environmental Network (Kandi Mossett, Tom Goldtooth)
- Just Transition Alliance (Jose Bravo)
- Miami Workers Center (Marcia Olivo, Trenise Bryant)
- Southwest Workers Union (Diana Lopez)
- Vermont Workers Center (Kate Kanelstein, James Haslam)
Akonadi funding
Founded in 2000 by Quinn Delaney and her husband Wayne Jordan, Akonadi Foundation began as an extension of their commitment to racial justice. The foundation evolved from Quinn and Wayne’s years of experience as progressive donors, campaign activists, and civil rights advocates.
The foundation’s seeds were planted in 1999, as youth groups in the San Francisco Bay Area began campaigning against Proposition 21, a statewide initiative that was to appear on the March 2000 ballot. Under the proposition, many 14-year-olds would be tried in adult rather than juvenile courts and 16-year-olds could be incarcerated in adult prisons. A wave of youth activists and youth-led organizations organized against the initiative, inspiring people across the country. Quinn and Wayne noticed something different about these organizations’ approach to their work: each was committed to an explicit vision for racial justice. Inspired by what they saw and resolving to support organizations that had a racial justice focus, Quinn and Wayne launched Akonadi Foundation, named after the oracle goddess of justice in Ghana. For the next five years, Akonadi supported local and national groups that advanced racial justice, including the Applied Research Center, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, East Side Arts Alliance, and Causa Justa/Just Cause.
Board members
Causa Justa/Just Cause 2022 board.
Maria Guillen, Adam Gold, Michelle Foy, N'Tanya Lee, Vanessa Moses, Laura Guzman.
As of 2015 the board of Causa Justa/Just Cause included;[2]
- Boona Cheema
- Michelle Foy
- Maria Elena Guillén
- Gilda Haas
- N'Tanya Lee
- Gordon Mar
- Denise Perry
- Maria Poblet
- Julie Quiroz
Staff
- Maria Poblet, Executive Director
- Dawn Phillips, Program Co-Director
- Vanessa Moses, Program Co-Director
- Aspen Dominguez, Administrative Director
- Mai-stella Khantouche, Administrative Coordinator
- Latifa Lewis, Operations Coordinator
- Molly McClure, Volunteer Coordinator
- Kate Sorensen, Development Manager
- Lorraine DeGuzman, Development Coordinator
- Rose Arrieta, Communications Coordinator
- Kitzia Esteva-Martinez Immigrant Rights Organizer
- Juana Teresa Tello,,Youth in Power Organizer
- Rheema Calloway,Black Priorities Project Organizer
- Maria Zamudio, San Francisco Housing Rights Campaign Organizer
- Chantal Garcia, San Francisco Housing Rights Counselor/Organizer
- Leticia Arce, San Francisco Housing Rights Counselor/Organizer
- Diana R. Flores, San Francisco Housing Rights Lead Counselor/Organizer
- Diana Alonzo, San Francisco Housing Rights Counselor/Organizer
- Lucas Solorzano, San Francisco Housing Rights Counselor/Organizer
- Araceli Catalan, San Francisco Housing Clinic Receptionist
- Camilo Sol Zamora, Regional Lead Organizer for Recruitment, Retention & Development
- Selene Chala, Oakland Rights-Based Services Lead Organizer
- Robbie Clark, Housing Rights Campaign Lead Organizer
- Princess Beverly Williams, Oakland Organizer/Housing Counselor
- Sanyika Bryant, SF Housing Organizer and Counselor
- Becki Ming-Yoke Hom, Outreach Coordinator
- Alma Blackwell, Oakland Housing Rights Organizer[3]