SAYING GOODBYE AFTER A DECADE OF GROWING AT GOT GREEN
It is with a heavy heart to share with you that this is my last month at Got Green as Executive Director. It has been such a journey to grow together with this organization. When I joined in 2009 as a volunteer, I did not know anything about climate change nor see myself as a leader. I'm so glad that I was organized by Michael Woo and found a political home with Got Green!In my time as the Executive Director, this is a list of some of my accomplishments:
Incorporation: Leading Got Green into a merger with Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ), solidifying itself as its own non-profit organization with the mission to organize for environmental justice.
Budget: Growing the organization's budget size from $350K (2013) to $1 million (2021).
Benefits: Growing the organization with a focus on hiring from the local community and ensuring pro-worker wages and benefits to meet the needs of the staff and their families, especially during this time of pandemic - for example: a minimum base salary of $73k and a thirty hour work week without compromising pay.
Urban-Rural Solidarity: Hosting Just Transition assemblies with Community to Community, developing a long-term rural and urban worker solidarity partnership.
Movement Building: Part of the founding of Front and Centered, drafting of the climate justice principles, and deepening relationships with unions and environmental justice community groups.
People Power: Campaigns and projects that have occurred during my time include: Targeted Local Hire, Healthy Food for All (Fresh Bucks), Young Workers in the Green Economy Project / Green Pathways, Our People Our Planet Our Power, and Green New Deal for Seattle
