Board of Directors 2010

Zach Comer – Chair;  InnerChi Massage and Bodywork

Sara Levine – Vice-Chair; Community volunteer

Chris Berthiaume – Treasurer; OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling

Tyrone Greenlee – Christians for a United Community

Isaac Coleman – Asheville Housing Authority

J. Nelson-Weaver- Health Partners

Lucia Daugherty – Pisgah View Community Peace Garden

Kathleen Barnes- Living Wage Coalition of Transylvania County

Staff

Sarah Osmer, Executive Director – Email

Sarah comes to JE with a long-history of activism and organizing around social and economic justice issues. Most recently, Sarah worked along side the nationally-renowned human rights organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW).  There, Sarah spearheaded a Farmworker Community Center Project and organized faith community support for the CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food. As a Congressional Hunger Fellow, Sarah worked with the Chicago Interfaith Committee’s Immigrant Worker Rights Center and the Center for Community Change in Washington, DC. Sarah earned a BA in Sociology and Religion from Emory University, with a minor in Community Building and Social Change. As a student, Sarah was involved in a successful living wage campaign at Emory, as well as affordable housing work in south Atlanta. Though new to the area herself, Sarah’s family has lived in the Asheville area for four generations.