Our Movement

"If you want to go far, go together."

— African Proverb

31,068

Petitions Signed

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Organizations

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Labor Unions

2,345

Dues Paying Members

Team Leaders

Downtown Crenshaw is powered by the Crenshaw Community with support from South Central natives and allies throughout the region and globe. The founding Board of Directors of Downtown Crenshaw Rising, a California nonprofit corporation, consists of the following change agents, organizers, community leaders and real estate professionals. They work with the Development Team of experts in community governance, real estate, capital formation and architecture to implement the vision of the community.
Damien Goodmon
CEO
Damien Goodmon
27-year Leimert Park resident Damien Goodmon has been labeled a “visionary” by the LA Times, recognized as one of the L.A.’s “100 Most Influential African-Americans” by the LA Wave Newspapers, chosen beside former LA Mayor Richard Riordan and actress Drew Barrymore for the 2009 “LA People” issue of LA Weekly, and is a lead subject of the award-winning documentary “Beyond the Echo of the Drum,” which premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. As a nonprofit executive director he has led some of the Crenshaw and Black Los Angeles' most impactful community advocacy campaigns. As a political operative he has managed, led departments and advised electoral campaigns from the school board level up to the presidential. As an executive management consultant and systems thinker, he has built, reconstructed and managed multiple large companies and departments, including some with over 400 employees, and successfully guided complex projects and partnerships, featuring actors with divergent interests. In the public sector, Mr. Goodmon served as a policy assistant for Board District 1 of Los Angeles Unified School District, America’s second largest school district. In that capacity he was directly responsible for overseeing the largest school expansion project in the country on behalf of the Board Member, and reviewing hundreds of contracts and bids in the LAUSD’s multi-billion dollar procurement process. Mr. Goodmon has worked to secure public funding for large real estate projects, and advocate for additional investment in public infrastructure projects. In his most recent capacity, he served as a senior advisor and an initial thought leader for the creation of the affordable housing program of a global nonprofit. Mr. Goodmon is a fifth-generation Angelino and descendant of Charles and L.M. Blodgett, who were successful Black builders and the founders of the first Black-owned bank on the West Coast, Liberty Savings and Loan. The Blodgett's built the first FHA financed housing for Black people in America, Blodgett Tract. He is also a relative of Colonel Allen Allensworth, the founder of Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by Black people. A graduate of L.A. Loyola High School, he has studied at the University of Washington and Harvard University programs.
Jackie Ryan
Board Chair
Jackie Ryan
Affectionately referred to as the "Godmother of Leimert Park Village," Jackie Ryan has been a Baldwin Hills and Windsor Hills resident for 55 years. She currently serves as co-vice chair of the Black Community Clergy & Labor Alliance, a collective of civil rights, labor, and community-based organizations focused on advancing a Black united front. Ms. Ryan also serves as a Baldwin Hills area representative for the Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council. She is a Platinum member of Links, Inc., and the producer of the Leimert Park Village History Banner Project. Ms. Ryan is a past member of the International Black Buyers & Manufacturers Exposition and Conference, past president of the Leimert Park Village Merchants Association, and past member of the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles Crenshaw Project Area Community Advisory Council. She is the retired co-owner of Zambezi Bazaar, which was a cultural and retail store in Leimert Park.
Paul Yelder
Board Treasurer
Paul Yelder
The grandmother of Paul Yelder, MCRP was one of the first Black residents of Leimert Park, buying her home in 1953. A resident since 1963, he has over 30 years of experience in the field of community development, working in a variety of capacities in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. He has submitted and reviewed affordable housing project financing for hundreds of affordable housing projects across America. As a consultant, he provides a variety of organizational development assistance to nonprofit community development organizations in the areas of strategic planning, business planning, governance, and project planning/management. He was recently employed by The Enterprise Foundation as a Senior Program Director in the Housing and Community Development Workgroup, where he provided organizational management assistance to numerous housing and community development organizations throughout the country. He also co-authored the manuals: “Effective Strategic Planning” and “Planning a New Business Venture” of The Enterprise Foundation’s Community Development Library. Prior to joining The Enterprise Foundation, Paul was the Executive Director of Dudley Neighbors Incorporated, a community land trust established by the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a nationally recognized model of resident-driven community development. He is currently serving, or has served, on the Board of Directors of a variety of nonprofit and civic organizations, including the Institute for Community Economics, YouthBuild Boston, and The Howard County Planning Board (Maryland). Paul holds a Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University and Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Urban Studies from Dartmouth College.
Malcolm Harris
Board Secretary
Malcolm Harris
An Oakland native, Chesterfield Square resident Malcolm Harris has lived in Los Angeles since 1984, moving to the Crenshaw District in 1995. Mr. Harris is a labor & community organizer, starting as an organizer in 1995 with the Community Coalition in South Central Los Angeles. He worked with the AMASSI Center of South Central Los Angeles, and spent 13 years as an organizing coordinator with the SEIU. Mr. Harris began working at T.R.U.S.T. South LA, a member-based community land trust on the eastside of South Central LA, serving as the Organizing & Programs Coordinator. In 2016, T.R.U.S.T. started the 2-year long process to re-develop the existing 48 unit 100% affordable building, into a 100% affordable 138 unit building on the site with a neighborhood health clinic. Mr. Harris led a comprehensive door-to-door community engagement effort to get the community resident and stakeholder support to secure the permits needed to move the redevelopment. There were many positives during the community engagement, and his skill set as an organizer helped T.R.U.S.T. navigate through them to develop community consensus.
Jan Williams
Board Member
Jan Williams
West Adams resident Jan Williams is a Los Angeles native whose family moved to the city in the early 1960s from Louisiana. After serving the country’s second largest school district as a school bus driver for over 20 years, Jan currently works as a union organizer. Her commitment to fighting for a better life for Black people is reflected in her service to several community organizations pushing for the betterment of Black people by improving education outcomes, housing justice, workers rights, and economic inclusion, and ending state sanctioned violence. As a core team organizer with Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles chapter, Jan leads the labor action team. Jan is a mother to two sons, including a current Dorsey High School Don, a sibling to eight and graduate of Palisades High School.
Dwayne Wyatt
Board Member
Dwayne Wyatt
A staple in every major planning conversation for the Crenshaw community for the past 25 years, Dwayne Wyatt retired as a city planner for the Los Angeles City Planning Department after 32 years of service. In that capacity, Mr. Wyatt worked in a variety of areas, including general plan development, zoning regulation, processed land subdivision cases, managed and developed historic overlay zones, staffed specific plan boards, and served as liaison for neighborhood councils and the Planning Department. While serving with the Planning Department, he worked on several special city projects and community initiatives, including the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative program, the Hyde Park Pedestrian District Project, the Crenshaw Summit Organizing Committee, and the South Central/Southeast Task Force. During his tenure he was assigned to the Crenshaw project area. Mr. Wyatt is now a consultant on a number of land use issues and has been a long-time advisor to Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment. He earned a Masters of Arts degree in Regional/Urban Planning from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Niki Okuk
Board Chair Emeritus
Niki Okuk
South Central resident Niglmoro (Niki) Okuk founded Rco Tires in 2012. They have since recycled more than 300 million pounds of rubber, diverting 70 million gallons of oil from landfills with 16 employees, making it one of southern California's largest sustainability plants. Rco creates alternative uses for trash tires, turning them into new products. Because of Okuk's progressive hiring and management practices, it provides stable jobs for local Black and Latino residents who struggle to find employment because of past criminal convictions or legal status. Okuk grew up in Los Angeles and majored in economics at Columbia University. After working in development with the office of Joseph Stiglitz and working in finance in Korea and Singapore, Okuk completed her MBA with Nanyang University in Singapore, including a sustainability certificate at Sloan School of Business at MIT. Tribal member Awakane Kamanuku.
Clark Arrington
40 Acres and a Mall Legal Coordinator
Clark Arrington
Clark Arrington is a 2021 inductee in the National Cooperative Hall of Fame. A bold visionary with a healthy dose of reliable pragmatism, Clark Arrington used his legal training to address capital formation issues for worker cooperatives. From developing standardized bylaws for worker cooperatives that established capital accounts to pioneering preferred stock offerings that raised capital while maintaining democratic control, Arrington’s work has had a foundational influence on today’s worker cooperatives.

Deeply committed to the Civil Rights Movement and economic democracy, Clark began his first alternative financing venture while in law school at Notre Dame bringing capital to minority-owned small businesses in South Bend, Indiana through the Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company (MESBIC). Upon graduation from college, a job at the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) expanded his understanding of capital formation and its regulation.

But it was economic development, not regulation that motivated Clark and he took a job at the Center for National Policy Review where he worked on creating community owned venture capital and loan funds. It was at CNPR where Clark’s interest in capital formation would encounter the cooperative model. Clark was assigned to a project involving the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and the Minority People’s Council on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, a grassroots community-based organization advocating for Black people to fully participate in a $2 billion public works project.

Following a stint in private practice, Clark joined The ICA Group as General Counsel providing legal services to an increasing number of worker-owned businesses seeking capital for expansion. Clark worked with a team to develop model bylaws that codified and elucidated the practice of internal capital accounts for worker-owned cooperatives, which are used by worker cooperatives across the U.S.

He also tackled a problem that vexed Equal Exchange and other worker cooperatives: how to affordably raise capital for expansion without endangering the workers’ control of the organization. Drawing upon his experience at the SEC and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Clark spearheaded the idea of offering non-voting equity shares to the public that allowed for growth while keeping the business true to its cooperative principles.

A consummate co-op educator, Clark has spent most of his professional life teaching courses related to cooperatives, business law, and community economic development at more than half a dozen institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Beginning with a teaching job immediately after college in Chicago, Clark went on to The University of Southern New Hampshire, The Open University of Tanzania; and Kampala International University-Dar es Salaam College.

As a Senior Fellow at Seed Commons, Clark works to develop non-extractive equity and debt financing that assures cooperative membership and member benefit are at the center of all legal and financial deals. As a member of The Working World’s Director’s Committee, and a veteran elder on staff, Clark is a valuable mentor and resource on cooperatives for his colleagues. Clark is a longtime board member of the Cooperative Fund of New England.

An innovator in cooperative finance, Clark has played a critical role in leveraging millions of dollars of new investment for social justice cooperatives. Clark’s bold vision, reliable pragmatism, and tireless efforts are key to promoting and developing innovative financing structures that are sensitive to the cooperative principles of member ownership, control and benefit.
Phil Hart
Senior Development Advisor
Phil Hart
Philip Hart is Founder and Managing Partner of BioMed Development Group, LLC, Los Angeles and Irvine, CA. Dr. Hart is also Founder/CEO of Hart Realty Advisors, Hollywood, CA. He began planning and developing life science business parks over 30 years ago in inner city Boston. He is a member of the Los Angeles Biosciences Coalition that created a plan in 2016 to expand the bioscience industry cluster in LA County, and he also serves on the Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine Dean’s Advisory Council. He is a development consultant for the new CDU COM Health Professions Education Building and is working with CDU COM to create a new four-year medical program to open for students in 2023.

Dr. Hart was project manager for the 5,000-seat West Angeles Cathedral in South LA that was dedicated in April 2001. He served on the LA County Metro Expo Line Construction Authority Urban Design Committee starting in 2006, and in April 2011 he chaired the ULI LA TAP that made recommendations as to station area design and TOD opportunities on the LA County Metro Crenshaw/LAX LRT. He has served on several ULI Advisory Service Program Panels, including the New Orleans panel after Hurricane Katrina, the ULI LA Executive Director from 2006-2008, and in 2008 he was named the first ULI Managing Director for Diversity and Inclusion Worldwide.

Dr. Hart serves on the board of directors of the Real Estate Associate Program, the leading diversity program in the CRE industry, and he helped found the Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDI) in 2009 with ULI Colorado and the City and County of Denver. He is a founding board member of Friends of the Hollywood Central Park, which is building a 38-acre urban cap park over the 101 freeway in Hollywood. Dr. Hart is a veteran educator, author, filmmaker, urban planner and developer. He is the author of over 100 articles and books on topics ranging from health needs of urban Blacks, incubating inner city biotech, the role of minority developers, urban cap parks, social statistics and the law, rebuilding New Orleans post Katrina, cities, suburbs and Blacks, an American reckoning on race, early African American aviators, and more. Dr. Hart was professor of sociology, department chair and director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at University of Massachusetts Boston from 1974 to 2002.  He was the 2018 Rachel B. Noel Distinguished Visiting Professor at Metropolitan State University Denver and was the 2019 Bessie Coleman Aerospace Legacy Award recipient.  He was named the 2010 Diversity Executive of the Year by Commercial Property Executive.

Philip Hart is a Denver native.  He was a student-athlete and honor student at University of Colorado where he is in the University’s Distinguished Alumni Gallery. His graduate degrees were earned at Michigan State University. Dr. Hart’s doctorate dissertation “Problems in Organizational Renewal,” MSU College of Social Science, Department of Sociology, 1974, is available at Google Books. Dr. Hart lives in Los Angeles with his family.
Brett Heeger
Counsel
Brett Heeger
Brett Heeger is a partner at Gundzik, Gundzik and Heeger law firm, where he focuses on transactional corporate and securities matters with a passion for community economic development and social enterprise. He supports a wide range of client companies, leveraging legal tools to support all of their goals: from profit and growth, to impact and inclusion. Brett’s clients come from a range of industries, from food and tech, to real estate, consulting, and financial services.

Brett has substantial experience leading clients through the process of planning for and bringing investment into their companies. From designing and managing friends and family rounds, direct public offerings (DPOs), navigating Regulation A+ and public company compliance, to negotiating venture investments and exit opportunities, Brett prides himself on his ability to work with clients to find the right investment tools and opportunities to position their business for success.

Brett also leads the firm's social enterprise and worker-owned cooperative efforts in Southern California. He has represented multiple cooperatives and members, and regularly presents and advises on legal matters for new and existing co-ops and social-impact minded businesses in Los Angeles. In law school, he co-founded the Community Enterprise Project, a clinical program where students engage in transactional law projects in support of under-served communities across Boston. From 2012 – 2014, Brett led projects and case teams in areas such as not-for-profit organization governance, food truck permitting and development, and urban agriculture.

Brett lives in Los Angeles with his partner, their two sons, and their mostly good dog.
Ed Whitfield
Senior Advisor
Ed Whitfield
Ed Whitfield is a social critic, writer and community activist who has lived in Greensboro since 1970. He is Co-Managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities.

Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Ed’s political activism started with attending Little Rock Central High School and beginning to do anti-war work as a teenager. Ed retired after 30 years in industry before becoming involved with philanthropy. He now speaks and writes on issues of cooperatives and economic development while continuing to be interested in issues of war and peace, as well as education and social responses to racism. Ed serves on the boards of the New Economy Coalition, The Working World and the Southern Reparations Loan Fund.

While he spends much of his time practicing bass guitar, Ed can often be found playing jazz or blues flute along with singer-songwriters and bands in Greensboro and wherever he goes in the world. He recently won the “Plays the Most Instruments” award at Greensboro’s long-running Open Mic night.

31,068 Petitions Signed

The widespread and deep support for the Crenshaw Mall being sold to the community through Downtown Crenshaw and not outside developers (CIM Group, LivWork-DFH Partners, David Schwartzman-Len Blavatnik) is reflected in our successful petition campaigns. The text of our three petitions are below.‍

First Petition Signed by 9,719

The first petition to the pension fund board members involved in the sale of the Crenshaw Mall requesting they stop the sale to CIM Group and provide the community the opportunity to purchase the mall was signed by 9,719 individuals and organizations, and it was successful! CIM Group withdrew from the sale in June of 2020. That first petition began circulation in May 2020 and had a very similar message to the new/current message. For reference, here was the message in that first petition:

RE: Proposed Sale of Asset Los Angeles’ Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza/Crenshaw Mall to CIM Group

Dear Board Members:
We write today with a specific ask: stop the sale of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza to CIM Group, and allow the community the opportunity to present a solution to the current challenges presented by the non-performing asset.

We are active leaders in the majority-Black community that is home to the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, also known as the Crenshaw Mall. Located at the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd in South Los Angeles, the Crenshaw Mall is an iconic economic center of Black Los Angeles. Built in 1947 as the first indoor shopping center in the United States, the original May Company and Broadway buildings have been determined to be eligible for inclusion in the local, state and national historic registries. As part of an effort in the 1980s to generate economic activity and job creation in South Los Angeles, substantial public resources were dedicated to the expansion and renovation of the mall by former Mayor Tom Bradley.

The proposed sale of our Crenshaw Mall to CIM Group, as reported in the Los Angeles Times on April 29, 2020, sent shockwaves across the community and America. Los Angeles’ Black community, and many who have concern for its future, do not want Crenshaw’s economic anchor put into the hands of a company with such a troubling history and business practices in communities undergoing severe displacement pressures. The concern is so profound that “Crenshaw Mall” was trending on Twitter on April 29th, with nearly all negative comments.

We write today not just to express our concern for the problem that selling the mall to CIM Group creates, but with a solution. Just hours after the article announcing the intent to purchase was published in the LA Times, community-based and community-focused leaders, experts with over 200 collective years of experience in finance, acquisition, and development, began collaboratively identifying strategies to quickly acquire the Crenshaw Mall. In short order and with laser-like focus, a historic coalition, with extensive experience working with and for public pension funds on development projects and commercial assets, has come together, identified the financing partners and mapped out a variety of exit strategies to the current challenge posed by the non-performing asset.

Deutsche Bank subsidiary, DWS, is the current manager of the asset and is taking direction from each of you. We respectfully ask that you allow us to help cure this challenge for your respective funds, and place this critical community asset into the hands of trusted and capable community leaders who will build a community-centered development that will make us all proud. Direct DWS to stop the sale, and allow the community the opportunity to present you with a win-win solution.

With respect and hope,
Honorable Robert Farrell
Los Angeles City Councilmember (Ret.)

African American Cultural Center (Us)

Ayuko Babu
Pan-African Film Festival

Dr. Michael Batie, Ph.D
President, Los Angeles Council of Black Professional Engineers

Black American Political Association of California - Los Angeles

Black Community Clergy & Labor Alliance

Fannie Lou Hamer Institute

Damien Goodmon
Founder & Executive Director, Crenshaw Subway Coalition

Michael Guynn
President, Association of Black Social Workers of Greater Los Angeles

Kevin Harbour
Past President, UCLA Black Alumni Association

Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment

Liberty Community Land Trust

Los Angeles Urban League

Niki Okuk
Los Angeles Union Cooperative Initiative (LUCI)

Jackie Ryan
Past President, Leimert Park Village Merchants Association

Clint Simmons, P.E.Commissioner, Los Angeles County Aviation Commission

Dwayne Wyatt
Former City Planner, City of Los Angeles

Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles

Lance Collins, AIA, NOMA
President, Southern California Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (SoCalNOMA)

Second Petition Signed by 13,280

The second petition to the pension fund board members involved in the sale of the Crenshaw Mall requesting they stop the sale to LivWrk-DFH Partners and provide the community the opportunity to purchase the mall was signed by 13,280 individuals and organizations, and it was successful too! For reference, here was the message in that second petition:

Dear Public Pension Funds, Deutsche Bank's DWS and Others Involved in the Sale of the Crenshaw Mall:

I join the large coalition demanding you stop the sale of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza to LivWrk-DFH Partners, and support the Crenshaw community's bid to purchase the mall through Downtown Crenshaw.

Third Petition Signed by 8,069

Dear Board Members of the Pension Funds Involved in the Sale of the Crenshaw Mall, Deutsche Bank's DWS and Local Elected Officials:

We write today with a specific ask: support the Crenshaw community's bid to purchase the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza through Downtown Crenshaw Rising.

Los Angeles’ Black community has a right to own it’s future. As displayed by the historic fundraising accomplished in less than 60 hours, there is a national groundswell of financial support for Black community ownership of the Crenshaw Mall. The many donors coupled with the tens of thousands in the community who have signed petitions over the past several months reflect a broad base of support for a new model of economic development that uplifts instead of uproots the community.

Since its establishment in May of 2020, Downtown Crenshaw Rising has been the only group that has conducted an inclusive process of open meetings and expressed an intent of uniting the entire community. The broad coalition of over 300 community-based groups, neighborhood associations, civil rights organizations, elected officials, merchants, property owners, business leaders and artists supporting Downtown Crenshaw Rising is unprecedented. It speaks to the power of the moment and the development team.

We respectfully ask that you allow Downtown Crenshaw Rising to help cure this challenge for the respective pension funds by placing this critical Black community asset into the hands of trusted and capable community leaders who will build a community-centered development. Your representative Deutsche Bank’s DWS has tried traditional developers unsuccessfully repeatedly. Direct them to give the community a chance. Allow Downtown Crenshaw Rising the opportunity to directly present all parties with a win-win solution, and make your funds and the nation proud.

Sincerely,

250+ Supporting Organizations

In just a few short months in 2020, Downtown Crenshaw organizers galvanized a diverse set of Crenshaw community leaders, Black Los Angeles stakeholders, local allies and supporters from across the globe. We are pleased to be building a broad-based and radically-inclusive effort of over 300 organizations of homeowners, renters, houseless, merchants, property owners, neighborhood associations, faith-based institutions, civil rights organizations, business leaders, civic leaders, scholar-activists, artists, and affinity groups.‍

Supporters Include (Partial List) :

Supporters Include (partial list):

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment-Los Angeles (ACCE-Los Angeles)

CDTech

Chinatown Community for Equitable Development

Concerned Community Members for Chesapeake Apartments

End Homelessness Now-LA

Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment

Liberty Community Land Trust

Lincoln Heights Against Gentrification

Long Beach Residents Empowered (LiBRE)

Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN)

Los Angeles Housing Compliance

Los Angeles Tenants Union Baldwin Leimert Crenshaw Local

Oakland Community Land Trust

People Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER)

Progressive Asian Network for Action

Sunrise Movement OC

Venice Community Housing

Westside Los Angeles Tenants Union

ADOS-Los Angeles

ADOS-Southern California

AFIBA Center

African American Cultural Center (Us)

African American Cultural Center Long Beach (AACCLB)

AfricaTown Coalition

Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles

Black Community Clergy and Labor Alliance

Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles

Brothers, Sisters, Selves Coalition

Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)

Coalition of 100 Black Women Los Angeles Chapter

Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People-West (CEMOTAP-West)

Committee for Racial Justice

Congress of Racial Equality-California

Creating Justice LA

Crenshaw Subway Coalition

Decolonize This Place

Food and Water Watch & Food and Water Action

Humanity First Coalition

Jazzalyn Livingston, NAACP National Programs Officer

JusticeLA

Kwanzaa People of Color

Labor/Community Strategy Center

Los Angeles Black Worker Center

Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center

Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative

NAACP Los Angeles

NAACP San Fernando Valley

National Action Network-Los Angeles

National Association for Equal Justice in America

National Coalition of 100 Black Women Los Angeles Chapter

National Council of Negro Women Southern California Area Chapter

Dr. Ron Daniels, Executive Director, Institute of the Black World 21st Century

SEIU Local 99 African American Caucus

SEIU Local 721 African American Caucus

Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Southern California

Students Deserve Los Angeles

UCLA Beloved Community Initiative

Union del Barrio

White People 4 Black Lives

Youth Justice Coalition

AFSCME 3299

Alice Goff, Retired President, AFSCME 36

SEIU 721

USW Local 675

Michael Peck, 1 worker 1 vote

American Sustainable Business Council

Gilda Haas, L.A. Co-Op Lab

Los Angeles Union Cooperative Initiative

Michael Kramer, Managing Partner, Natural Investments, LLC

Resource Generation Los Angeles

Social Venture Circle

Akosua Hobert, Senior Minister, First Woman's Church of LA

Baptist Ministers Conference of Los Angeles and Southern California

Clergy for Black Lives

Pastor Cue JnMarie, Church without Walls (Skid Row)

Rev. Donald L. Wilson

Pastor Eddie Anderson, McCarthy Memorial Christian Church

Rev. Erica Byrd, KRST Unity

Holy Name of Jesus Church Knights of Peter Claver Council 121

Rev. James Thomas, Living Word Community Church

Pastor KW Tulloss, Weller Street Baptist Church

Pastor Meredith Miller, Pomona Valley Church

Morningside Congregational Church, UCC

Rev. Najuma Smith-Pollard, USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement

St. Peter Claver Foundation

Rev. William D. Smart, Jr., Pastor, Christ Liberation Ministries

Artist Among Us Talent Agency

Ayuko Babu, Founder, Pan African Film Festival

Brandi Kane, Artist

Dr. Adrian Dove, Ph.D., Kingdom Day Parade

Lauren Halsey, Artist

Rahkua, Artist

Six Sev, Artist

Dr. Melina Abdullah, Ph.D, Professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles

Dr. Jody Armour, Author & Professor, University of Southern California School of Law

Dr. Maulana Karenga, Ph.D, Professor & Chair of Africana Studies at Cal State University Long Beach & Creator of Kwanzaa

Dr. W. Gabriel Selassie I, Professor, Los Angeles City College

Dr. Chris Tilly, Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Urban Planning

Anna Tutt, 2nd Vice President, Consolidated Board of Realtist

Bee Hall, Pan-African Community Development Corporation

Buy Back the Block Los Angeles

Leimert Park Investment Group

Lucas Renaissance Group

Dr. Ronald Galvin, Vice President for Racial Equity and the Democratic Economy of The Democracy Collaborative

Sandra McNeil, Former Executive Director, TRUST South LA

Seed Commons/The Working World

Ted Brass Real Estate Solutions

Ade Nuff, Ride On Bike Co-Op & Past President of the Leimert Park Village Merchants Association

Anastasia Clemons, Co-Founder, Lucas Renaissance Group

Clare Kelly, CEO, Hesse Press

Conaxion, Inc.

Christiane Eubanks, Co-Owner, Who's Hungry Caribbean & Catering

Dawn Modkins, Diaspora Beauty Supply and Salon

Daniel Desure, Owner, Commonwealth Projects

Danielle's Soul Kitchen

Dianne Lawrence, Editor, The Neighborhood News

Eric Walker, Walk.Empowered

Dr. Kathye Jenkins, Founder/President, Cynthia Perry Ray Foundation

Gina Viola, CEO, Trade Show Temps

Hank's Mini Market

Jackie Ryan, Past President of Leimert Park Village Merchants Association

Jennifer Alvarez, Worker-Owner, The Tree Yoga Cooperative

Leimert Park Village Merchants Association

Linda Morgan Sam, Living Legends Foundation

Los Angeles South Chamber of Commerce

Love Tafari, Owner, Love Tafari Realtor

Marva Smith, Owner, Marva Smith Consulting

Michelle Johnson, CEO, The Chocolate Barista

Mobile Science Labs

Mohawk General Store

Moonwater Farm

Mo Juice

Olympia Auset, Owner, SÜPMARKT

Page Bryant, CEO, Page Bryant Production

Patricia Diggs, Executive Director, Operation Backlot

Philip Bucknor, Founder/CEO, FORTHEFUTURE

The Restaurant Opportunities Center of Los Angeles

Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation

Robin Cole, Past Board Member, Park Mesa Heights Community Council

Dr. Rosie Milligan, Author, Business Owner & Self-Appointed Mayor of South Central

Seth Gottesdiener, CEO, Indigo Fitness

Skid Row People's Market

SoLA Food Co-Op

South LA Cafe

South Los Angeles Bureau of Tourism & Trade

TEC Leimert

Toss It Up Salad

Troya Ellis, CEO, Trajectory of Hope

Mable Wilson, Owner, Wilson's Divorce Clinic

YUTE Juice LLC

We Love Leimert

59th Place Block Club

Akili, Director, Fannie Lou Hamer Institute

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc Beta Psi Lambda Chapter

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Upsilon Chi Chapter

Andrea Canty, Past President of North Area Neighborhood Development Council

Black American Political Association of California-Los Angeles

Clint Simmons, P.E., Commissioner, Los Angeles Aviation Commission

Connye Thomas, Chair, Community Action Mobilization Team

Converging Storms Action Network

Dominique Bell, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Long Beach

Black American Political Association of California-Los Angeles (BAPAC-LA)

Black Skeptics

Carolyn Fowler, California Senior Legislature

Clean Up South Central

The Honorable Daniel Lee, Culver City City Councilmember

Danielle Lafayette, Founder/Executive Director, Unite A Nation

Dwayne Wyatt, Los Angeles City Planner (Ret.)

Grace Yoo, Co-Founder, Environmental Justice Collaborative

Ground Game LA

The Honorable Isadore Hall, III, California State Senate (Ret.)

Jacquelynn Hawthorne, Board Member of Los Angeles African American Women Political Action Committee

Jon Lafferty, CEO, Latebloom Entertainment

Kenneth Collins, Sr., President/CEO of Kebeco Construction Services Inc.

Kevin Harbour, Sr., Past President of UCLA Black Alumni Association

Lance Collins, AIA, NOMA, President of Southern California Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (SoCalNOMA)

Linda Ricks, Past Chair of Community Redevelopment Agency-Los Angeles Crenshaw Community Advisory Council

Mac Shorty, Founder, Community RePower Movement

Make Crenshaw Great Again

Dr. Michael Batie, Ph.D., President of Los Angeles Council of Black Professional Engineers

Michael Guynn, President of Association of Black Social Workers-Greater Los Angeles

National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ)

National Association of University Women

New Frontier Democratic Club

NOlympics LA

Park Mesa Heights Community Council

Patrick McCullough, Expo Neighbors Association

Places In The City

Project Africa-Los Angeles

Queen Sho King, Moor Enterprises

The Honorable Robert Farrell, Los Angeles City Councilmember-8th District (Ret.)

Serge Hall, Board Member of Mid-City Neighborhood Council

Sikivu Hutchinson, Noted Author & Activist

Tanya Walters, Founder/CEO of GodParents Youth Organization

Tim Watkins, President/CEO of Watts Labor Community Action Committee

Torrence Brannon-Reese, Founding Director of FAMLI, Inc.

West Adams Neighborhood Council

West LA Democratic Club

Women's Leadership Project

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