Eric
Sisneros, Chair
Lisa Nhung Bui, Treasurer
Millie Cleveland, Secretary
Grover C. Dye
Pamela L. Holmes-Morton
Brian A. Powell
Terry Sandoval
Alan Taylor
Anne
Butterfield Weills
You can contact the board of directors at [email protected]
Eric
Sisneros, Chair
Since
1998, Eric has been employed by SEIU Local 616 in Oakland.
He is a member of OPEIU Local 29, serves as shop steward
and is currently serving his second term as a member of its
Executive Board. He is also a Local 29 delegate to the Alameda
County Central Labor Council and is currently enrolled in
courses at Laney College, pursuing a certificate in Labor
Studies.
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Lisa
Nhung Bui, Treasurer
Lisa
was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States at
the age of seven. She attended high school in San Francisco
and obtained an Associates of Arts Degree in Accounting at
Heald College. Since 1999, she has been employed at SEIU
Local 616 as the Full-Charge Bookkeeper. Prior to working
at the Union, she was employed at a nonprofit organization
in San Francisco, Public Interest Clearinghouse, as the Accounting
Administrator for five years. She has over 12 years of experience
in nonprofit accounting and bookkeeping.
She
is currently attending Laney College to pursue her Bachelor's
Degree in Accounting and lives in Oakland with her13-year-old
son.
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Millie
Cleveland, Secretary
S.E.I.U.
Local 790 2003 to present Field Representative
West Oakland Health Center 1991 to 1999 Violence Prevention Program Director
that included;
- Conflict
resolution programs in four Oakland high schools and three
middle schools;
- McClymonds
High School mentoring project for elementary students enrolled
at Prescott Elementary School;
- Violence
prevention workshops for incarcerated youth at Alameda
County Camp Sweeney
Project
Manager for the first Medi-cal based county juvenile substance
abuse program
Arts Research and Curriculum Inc. 1999 to 2003
Project Manager-- Responsible for oversight and development of school/community
collaboration for the provision of social services at Castlemont High School.
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Grover
C. Dye
Education:
B.A. in Social Sciences from Morehouse College in Atlanta,
Georgia; M.S. W. from Howard University in Washington, D.
C.
Experience:
Deputy Mental Health Director, Alameda County Health Agency,
retired; past Chair and Member of the Board of Directors
of the Paul Robeson Chapter of the American Civil Liberties
Union; Chair of the Bay Area Paul Robeson Centennial Committee;
Vice-President of the Alameda County Retired Association,;
Member of the Advisory Committee Service International Employees
Union; Past Chair and present Member of the Board of Directors
of People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO).
Previous
Experience over a period of fifty years: Member of Interim
Board of Directors of People United for a Better Oakland
(PUEBLO); a variety of work with public and private organizations
which included Director of Neighborhood Development Programs,
Tenant-Union Organizer, Child Therapist, Case Worker.
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Pamela
L. Holmes-Morton
Pamela
is a graduate of Balboa High School in San Francisco, CA
and a graduate of California State University Sacramento.
She’s currently employed as a Housing Specialist with
the Alameda County Housing Authority, embarking upon ten
years of service this upcoming November, 2005.
Her community
activism includes serving as the secretary for the Black
Coalition on Aids headquarters in San Francisco from August,
1996 thru December, 1997. She served as an executive board
member for SEIU local 616 from January, 1999 thru January,
2002. She also served as board member for the Paul Robeson
chapter of ACLU from August, 1999 thru July of 2004. In addition,
she was the Northern California Regional Affiliate delegate
for ACLU in San Francisco from 2003 thru 2004.
She is
currently shop steward and one of three committee members
serving on the Labor Relations board at her place of employment.
She is a member of the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law
Center.
She is
committed to social, economic and racial justice, believing
that these very precepts foster decent and safe communities.
By meeting the basic needs of workers, families and students
to create quality jobs, education, housing, health care and
other needed services, we can achieve healthy self-sufficient
communities and ultimately a universal world of peace and
tolerance.
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Brian
A. Powell
Brian
is currently employed as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
in the Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory. He has a Ph.D. and a M.S. degree in Environmental
Engineering and Science from Clemson University in Clemson,
SC and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Montevallo
in Montevallo, Al.
His research
mainly deals with hazardous waste remediation and assessment
of risk from contaminant exposure. While his work experience
is mainly devoted to environmental research, he participates
in many advocacy and civil rights organizations.
Brian
is an active member of the Paul Robeson Chapter of the American
Civil Liberties Union and the East Bay Young Democrats. Also,
he engages in advocacy and community outreach services for
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate.
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Terry
Sandoval
Terry
has been a member of the NWPC Executive Board since 1997,
and has served as PAC Chair for as long as she can remember.
She joined NWPC-ANat the State Convention held in Concord
in 1996.
Terry
was a rank and file member of the Operating Engineers Local
#3 for 15 years as a heavy equipment operator. 5 years in
underground, 5 years in mining, and the last 5 years in pile
driving. She was a member of OE3 P.A.C. Committee for 6 years,
prior to leaving the industry due to a work related back
injury.
The past
6 years Terry has worked as campaign staff on a number of
successful campaigns, they include: Mindell Penn Richmond
City Council, John Russo Oakland City Attorney, Trina Thompson
Stanley Superior Court Judge, Yes on 1A, State Wide Ballot
Measure, and most recently, Pat Kernighan for Oakland City
Council.
Terry
is married to John Sabados, enjoys being a mother to their
6 year old son, Oakland A's baseball, church, oysters, cooking,
reading, art and time spent with many wonderful women in
this diverse community.
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Alan
Taylor
Education: Chosen
as a New York State Regents Scholar - 1969 Ohio Wesleyan
University, Delaware, Ohio Wagner College, Staten Island,
New York;B.A. History (1975 - elected to the Phi Alpha
Theta, the National History Honors Society San Francisco
State University, San Francisco, California Masters Program
in Educational Technology (and the use of film, video and
computers in education)
Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio Graduate Program in Environmental
Planning & Design
Professional
Experience: Contract monitor for VMS, San Francisco.
Surveyed various broadcast media; summarized coverage for
VMS customers, most of whom were Silicon Valley technology
companies.
Free-lance
photojournalist in Hong Kong (with travel to Japan, China,
Indonesia). Wrote travel and lifestyle articles for numerous
regional publications.Edited and wrote business articles
for the EIU (Economic Intelligence Unit, a division of the
Economist magazine.)
Habitat
Center, San Francisco, California. Managed the small, innovative
architectural firm with an educational emphasis for three
years. Specialized in energy-efficient architecture.
Inco,
Ltd. New York, New York. Research function in the patent
and research departments, involvement in U.S. Justice Department
anti-trust investigation; wrote corporate history on downstream
tax restructuring.
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Anne
Butterfield Weills
Anne
has been a civil rights and equity activist since her teenage
years. She was one of the first organizers of the women’s
liberation movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior
to becoming an attorney she worked as a union organizer for
the International Association of Machinists, the International
Longshoreman and Warehouse Union, and the International Garment
Workers union. She also taught women’s studies at Antioch
College’s San Francisco campus until she was fired
for helping the students organize their strike against excessive
student fees and an inadequate standard of instruction.
She
received her law degree from the Golden Gate University Law
School in San Francisco, concentrating in labor and employment
law.
In
her current practice Anne handles wrongful termination, civil
rights and employment cases. Currently she has five active
cases at California universities,
an ethnic discrimination case at the University of California - Berkeley,
a sex discrimination and hostile work environment case at the University of
California - Irvine, a racial discrimination case against Stanford University
and Pat Washington’s race and sex discrimination case against CSU/SD.
Anne has two sons, a grandson, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area
since she was five years old.
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