Wa Na Wari is Hiring!
We are looking for people to join the research team for our CACE 21 organizing project as Survey Administrators. This is an organizing project that brings together Black Central District homeowners and Black cultural workers to learn about and advocate for changes in land use policy. We want to help anchor Black homeowners by making it easier for them to adopt strategies like those used to create Wa Na Wari as a way of adapting to the challenges of land ownership in Seattle. We have developed a community participatory research project to help inform our organizing goal. The CACE 21 Survey Administrators play a vital role in the success of this work.
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We are looking for people to join the research team for our CACE 21 organizing project as Survey Administrators. This is an organizing project that brings together Black Central District homeowners and Black cultural workers to learn about and advocate for changes in land use policy. We want to help anchor Black homeowners by making it easier for them to adopt strategies like those used to create Wa Na Wari as a way of adapting to the challenges of land ownership in Seattle. We have developed a community participatory research project to help inform our organizing goal. The CACE 21 Survey Administrators play a vital role in the success of this work.
Review the full job posting
CACE 21 Core team
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Inye Wokoma - Wa Na Wari Co-Founder / CACE 21 Project Lead
Inye Wokoma is a fifth generation Central District resident, community organizer and an award-winning visual artist, filmmaker, and photographer. As one of four co-founders of Wa Na Wari, he started CACE 21 to further advance the organization's mission of anchoring Black homeownership and fighting Black Displacement in Seattle. |
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Dr. Kristin McCowan - CACE 21 Survey Development Lead / Data Analysis Co-Lead
Dr. Kristin McCowan is a professor of social work, community researcher and facilitator. Kristin studies adolescent well-being and sociopolitical development (eg. critical consciousness). As a community research consultant, Kristin has worked with many local organizations on program design & evaluation, survey development & implementation and community engagement strategies. |
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Latio Cosmos - Project Coordinator
Latio Cosmos is originally from South Sudan and Kenya and has lived in the United States for 13 years. He graduated from Seattle University with a bachelor’s degree in Public Affairs with a concentration in International Development. He participates in the cultivation of community power and resilience through liberatory education of the whole person and cooperative economics. |
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KL Shannon - CACE 21 Community Organizing Lead
KL Shannon grew up in the Central District. She has been a committed community organizer addressing issues that impact the BIPOC community. |
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Ruby Holland - Founder of Keep Your Habitat / CACE 21 Outreach Specialist
Ruby Holland is a Central District native and founder of Keep Your Habitat, an anti-displacement project. She is focused on maintaining Black Homeownership in Seattle’s CD and South End. |
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Dr. Lynne Manzo - CACE 21 Data Analysis Co-Lead
Dr. Lynne Manzo is a Professor in the College of Built Environments and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle. As an Environmental Psychologist, her work focuses on place attachments, the experience of displacement, and the politics of place. She believes in the power of community-driven design to achieve positive change and move us toward socio-spatial justice. |
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Kristyn Joy - Project Volunteer
Kristyn Joy is an adult educator, community organizer and grassroots fundraiser who has lived on north Beacon Hill for 25 years. She hopes CACE 21 will become a model for other neighborhoods to stem the tide of displacement. |