Susan Breedlove

I have been active on the Northside since 1969 serving on committees of Pilot City Health Center’s TACTICS Board, Health and Safety Committee of Local #59 Minneapolis Teachers and Teacher Assistants (addressing environmental health issues at over 200 sites in our contract), and MNCHEC (focusing on children’s health issues) With EJAM, I have completed tasks such as creating our member list with colleagues and acting as "financial clerk" for EJAM. I consider myself as proactive in addressing environmental health issues. I am especially concerned about the health of urban residents, the implications of racism, and the welfare of our children.

Rose Brewer, second term.

Rose Brewer is the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has written extensively on Black Families, race, gender & class, and public policy.  She is the 2004 recipient of the Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award. She is a scholar-activist who for over a decade has been a member of the board of Project South:  Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide.  She is also on the board for a Fair Economy, and is a founding member of the Black Radical Congress.  And, she consults nationally on issues of Race, Gender & Class in the curriculum. Dr. Brewer serves on the EJAM Board of Directors.

Rep. Karen Clark

Representative Clark has been a progressive Minnesota State legislator for 24 years, public-health nurse and OB-GYN nurse practitioner and community organizer. Karen lives in the Phillips neighborhood in South Minneapolis, where she experiences first hand the serious problem of arsenic contamination and where she is actively engaged on this issue. She is a graduate of the JFK School at Harvard. Karen is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Environmental Institute, an environmental research, renewal and retreat center dedicated to environmental justice. Karen’s passionate dedication to environmental justice is also reflected in her legislative, community and personal priorities. Karen is a part-time instructor at the U of MN and also at the College of St. Catherine’s Graduate Program of Holistic Health Studies. She is an EJAM Board member. 

Terrance Noble, first term.

I’m a Minnesotan that has been working for social justice for 15 years. I’m presently a phone canvass manager for Clean Water Action Alliance in Northeast Minneapolis. There I’m responsible for implementing our membership interaction and direct fundraising plans and overseeing a team who contacts members on a daily basis. I look forward to applying my experience managing a team committed to making yearly fundraising goals of about $1 million a year to a grassroots organization, such as EJAM, in order to improve membership development and communication. I also have experience as an organizer who has worked to expand the collaborative efforts in communities of color to heighten awareness of children health issues.

Kathleen Schuler, second term.

Kathleen Schuler is a founding member of EJAM and has served on the Board since 2006. She is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, where she focuses on protecting children from environmental toxins, both through educating parents and advocating for public policies that reduce human exposure to toxic chemicals. She is also Co-Director of Health Legacy, a statewide public health coalition dedicated to “safe products, made safely.” Ms. Schuler has a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Minnesota. She is also a past Bush Leadership Fellow in environmental health.  That experience included study at Boston University and an internship with the Center for Health, Environment and Justice.

Cheryl Wilson, second term.

Cheryl Wilson grew up in South Minneapolis and is a product of the Minneapolis Schools. With well over 29 years of experience in community organizing/direct services/advocacy. She worked as Parent Educator for the Minneapolis Public Schools. Cheryl has worked within the educational systems around issues of parental involvement, volunteer coordination and parent education. She moved away to rural Minnesota where she provided direct services to African/African American community members in domestic violence, sexual assault, abused children and general crime through a Latino organization. When back in the urban context, Ms. Wilson has been the Director of the Morris Miller Youth Center and developed the Organizing Project of African American Congregations to enhance the power of community through organizing. Cheryl studied business for non-profits at the College of St. Thomas, MN. In her continual journey through life and learning, her trainings includes: Center for Third World Organizing, Oakland, CA, Organizing Apprenticeship Project, Minneapolis, MN, Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, TN, Midwest Academy, Chicago, IL. She has served on many local and national boards. She is currently a board member of Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed. She has come to understand that change begins with self and the understanding of the power that each individual has with their story and voice. Cheryl continues to train community members in grassroots organizing. Her passion is to create an authentic culture of organizing in Minnesota to address the disparities and injustices that exists within the systems in regards to underrepresented communities.