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Our Leadership
Bruce Baker
Executive Director
Bruce L. Baker is co-founder and Executive Director of Community Health and Empowerment through Education and Research (CHEER). Bruce has led CHEER’s efforts to facilitate a community strategic plan, conduct research on community housing and health conditions, and facilitate community improvement actions to address community priorities through collaborations and partnerships.
Vanesa Pinto
Empowerment and Leadership Development Program Director
Vanesa is the organizer of all CHEER programming involving community building and networks of support in Long Branch. Before finding her passion in community organizing, Vanesa was an accountant in Bolivia. She is proud to have been that profession and equally proud to have left it behind as she credits her initial career path as the trigger motivating her to leave Bolivia and find her passion in the United States.
Our Community Outreach Team
Karla Castro
Lead Community Health Worker
Dolores Badillo
Community Health Worker
Kate Kabore
Community Health Worker
Anthea Levy
Community Health Worker
Jenifer Alvarez
Community Health Worker
Azeb Kidane
Community Health Worker
Our Empowerment & Leadership Development Team
Enku Woldemedhin
Community Outreach Specialist
Lisa Büttner
Neighborhood Gardening Program Director
Iane Campos-Siddique
ELD Team Member
Ray Nosbaum
Special Projects Coordinator
Our Board
Mary Jacksteit
President Professional Mediator, Takoma Park Presbyterian Church
Kathy Porter
Treasurer Consultant, Former Mayor of Takoma Park
Howard Kohn
Board Member Public Relations Consultant
Eliane Ferreira
Board Member
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