Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

The Ella Baker Center is the lead organization of the Executive Committee of Communities United, a coalition of 130 organizations of people of color in California working on climate change solutions. Communities United was formed in 2010 and helped to successfully defend California’s clean energy and climate policies. Organizers are now working to transform the coalition into one that can harness the efforts of community groups for longer-term regulatory work on climate and energy policy.

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a nonprofit strategy and action center based in Oakland, California. The Center — named for Ella Baker, a brilliant, black hero of the civil rights movement — works locally, statewide, and nationally to shift resources away from prisons and punishment and toward opportunities that make communities safe, healthy, and strong. The organization uses local, state, and national narrative campaigns to mobilize everyday people to build power and prosperity in their societies.