Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

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.