Staff and Board

Jonathan Betz-Zall

Jonathan is a community activist who has worked with the Quakers for many years. He’s been a volunteer with CCEJ since 1994 where he has helped do outreach on CCEJ's campaigns in Georgetown, Beacon Hill, South Park and Yesler Terrace and has participated in several CCEJ actions. As a librarian, Jonathan has organized the ecolibrarian project, and has also been active with the Task Force on the Environment of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table. He has a Master of Arts in Environment and Community from Antioch University Seattle, which he puts to good use teaching Biology and Environmental Science at Highline Community College.

Mel "Baraka" Cloyd

Baraka has been active with the King County Food and Fitness Initiative, which is addressing the "food desert" that affects people in southwest Seattle and White Center. He is an urban farmer and teaches people skills for self-sufficiency. Here he is in action, helping a young man monitor the quality of meat in a supermarket.

Christina Gallegos

Christina has been instrumental in the development of Environmental Education and interpretative programming at Seward Park and in the southeast corridor of the city. She currently holds the position of Naturalist at Seward Park.

Christina has also been active in the Seattle community through her volunteer work. Christina was a founding member of HACE, the Hispanic Association of City Employees, the Manana Coalition’s annual Latino Youth Conference and the Rainbow Book festival. She has participated as a member of the Cleveland Memorial Forest Committee and the Langston Hughes Advisory Council. When not in the park you can find her camping, creating her dream garden, listening to jazz or blues and managing her two teenagers.

Bang Nguyen

Bang has been active with CCEJ for many years, representing us at such events as the Martin Luther King, Jr. and May Day International Labor Day Annual Celebrations and Marches. He served as our representative on the Dearborn Street Coalition which won a Community Benefits Agreement, the first on the West Coast, from a potential developer and on the Yesler Terrace Coalition which wrung a much improved process for upholding tenant interests from the Seattle Housing Authority. Most recently, he organized door-knocking in South Park for the Clean and Safe Ports campaign.

Alice Park

Alice has worked as a volunteer for numerous non-profit organizations serving low-income communities, including the Venice Family Clinic and Planned Parenthood. She has a Master’s in Public Health and has skills in advocacy and research. Alice is Research Coordinator for the Urban Indian Health Institute at the Seattle Indian Health Board. Her background is in Public Health and her interests in environmental health and addressing health disparities.

Patricia Young

Patricia has worked for the City of Seattle for 17 years. She has been a part of the City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Change team for the past five, working to dismantle institutional racism within the City of Seattle. In doing this work she came to understand that the disparities in communities of color were just not about access, education and opportunity but also environmental.