Board of Directors

Tyrone Greenlee – President; Director, Christians for a United Community
Isaac Coleman - Vice President; Asheville Housing Authority
DC Bennett - Interim Treasurer; DC Bennett Associates
Zach Comer - Secretary; InnerChi Massage and Bodywork
Steve Agan - Attorney, Hyler and Lopez
Laura Gordon - President, Western NC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Lina Herrera-Hernandez - Affordable Housing Coalition
Franklin Tate - Director of Service Learning, Warren Wilson College

Staff

Sarah Osmer, Coordinator - Email

Sarah Osmer is the Coordinator. 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.