Board of Directors
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Board of Directors
The Board of Directors maintains public trust by ensuring Real Change operates with integrity. This is achieved through fiscal oversight, mission guidance, program setting & evaluation, and selection of the Founding & Managing Directors responsible for day to day operations.
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David Bloom (President) was among the original supporters of Real Change and later a charter member of the Advisory Committee. From 2001 to 2003, David served on the staff of Real Change and joined the Board in 2008. David is an American Baptist minister with more than thirty years of leadership experience in Seattle on social justice issues. From 1978 to 1997, he directed the urban ministry of the Church Council of Greater Seattle and helped to establish the Downtown Emergency Service Center, Common Ground, and the Seattle Displacement Coalition. In 2001, David founded the Interfaith Task Force on Homelessness and the Rauschenbusch Center for Spirit and Action and now serves both as director emeritus. Since 2004, David has been on the adjunct faculty at Antioch University-Seattle. He was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota and grew up in Detroit and suburban Philadelphia. He received a BA from Macalester College, Master of Divinity from the American Baptist Seminary of the West, and Master of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. In his free time David enjoys exercise, photography, Husky football, singing in his church choir, movies and plays, reading, travel, entertaining, and his annual canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Wilderness of northern Minnesota. |
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Jeremy Buzzard (Treasurer) joined the board in 2011, a few months after finishing an internship with the organization. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and International Affairs at Temple University’s Japan campus. Jeremy earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and several certifications from the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs. Born in Washington and having experienced homelessness first hand, he has a vested interest in seeking social justice for fellow Washingtonians facing difficult times. |
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Anitra Freeman (Secretary) joined the Real Change Board of Directors in 2009. Anitra was homeless when she was recruited, by Wes Browning, to the Real Change editorial committee. With a background in computer programming and in writing workshops, Anitra was soon leading workshops in writing and computer skills, for vendors and other homeless adults. She has also been on the Board of Directors of the Low Income Housing Institute; is President of the Board of Directors of Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE), a grassroots homeless organizing group; and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Women’s Housing Equality & Enhancement League (WHEEL), a grassroots organizing project of homeless and formerly homeless women. Anitra is also among the founders of Nickelsville and is proud to learn recently that what she had proposed be the first and only rule remains, as Rule 12: “Don’t do stupid stuff.” Anitra lives in the International District and enjoys reading, writing, and gardening. |
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Kimberly Mustafa (Member) joined our board in 2011. She has a passion for social justice and has always admired everything that Real Change stands for. Born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Kim has been a resident of Seattle for the last 14 years and has a degree in Human Services from Antioch University. Kim feels a deep appreciation for Real Change’s ability to enhance the lives of financially disadvantaged people, and enjoys advocating and participating in activities that strengthen her commitment to social justice and equity. She is the single parent of two spirited adolescents. |
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Teresa Reeves (Member) joined Real Change as a contributing writer and Editorial Committee member in 2009. A counselor trained at USC, she was a counseling intern at the Laguna Beach Community Clinic and the Orange County Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center from 1985 to 1988. Teresa was the sole caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer’s Disease from 1993 to 1999. Afterward Teresa moved to Seattle where she became homeless in 2000 for seven years to 2007. Since 2008, she has worked as an advocate, writer, facilitator, and speaker for WHEEL and a member of the WHEEL Executive Committee. She is also a founder of the Cheerios Corner writing group at Antioch’s Women’s Education Program having been involved with them since 2003. She is also a member of the WHEEL/Church of Mary Magdalene Women in Black and the Homeless Remembrance Project Committee (HRPC). She was emcee for the 15th annual WHEEL Homeless Women’s Forum Luncheon in 2009. As a singer, songwriter and musician, she has had more than 80 songs published and she performed a live concert in Downtown Seattle for HRPC on June 11, 2011. She has been an advocate for transsexuals on Facebook since 2010 and she was Vice President and President of Gender Identity Empowerment Coalition (GIEC) from October 2010 to February 2011, and founded the Transsexual & Feminist Liberation group in November 2011. She founded the new Vendor Writing Group, Write On Real Change, Right On!! in April of 2012. Teresa was elected to the Board of Directors in January of 2012 |
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Danielle Nouné (Member) became involved with Real Change in the fall of 2011 as a front desk vendor sales volunteer and transcriber. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, she spent nearly a decade in New York City in both the fields of social work and law before moving to Seattle in 2008 as a paralegal. Her degree is in psychology from The University of Michigan; a tool she employs daily in order to better understand the core of individual, organizational and social issues. From a young age Danielle has been ingrained with a passionate sense for social justice and equality among all. She is steadfast in her support and belief in Real Change’s ability to meet folks where they are and effect multi-level change in both Seattle and surrounding areas. Danielle was elected to the board of directors in April of 2012. |
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Pam Kliment (Member) joined the Real Change Board of Directors in 2012. Pam grew up in New York City and moved to Seattle in 1980, eventually graduating from the University of Washington with degrees in Botany and Landscape Architecture. She has worked for the Seattle Parks Department since 1998. Pam’s work at the Parks Department introduced her to the Homeless Remembrance Project Committee, and relationships developed there led to a greater awareness and concern for the challenges faced by homeless people. In 2009, Pam, a photographer, focused on Nickelsville doing a 24 hour photo challenge for Photography Center Northwest. This led to an ongoing commitment to the vision of Nickelsville and to the people who live there. Never much of a “joiner”, Pam finds herself involved in several communities and was overheard saying in regard to Real Change, “I want to be a part of it!!!” This is because of her longtime admiration of “Adventures in Irony” and her recognition of the extremely important role that Real Change plays as a voice in the homeless community. Her local vendors are Terry Cunningham and Tricia Sullivan. |
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Mark Early (Member) Born and raised in West Seattle, now living in North Ballard with wife Lolly Bates. Began designing computer hardware and writing software in 1979 to control industrial machinery used mostly by aerospace metal forming companies. Continued computer design and software development in the systems engineering department of a defense contractor doing work at Fort Lewis, Washington. Computers were new, I was young and enjoyed solving technical problems for many years with a talented team of coworkers. My interest in affordable housing lead to several years as a volunteer in Seattle with the Downtown Human Services Council around the issues of homelessness and land use. It was thru DHSC that I learned about the important work of The Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project. It is a privilege to join another very talented team: vendors, staff, volunteers and board, dedicated to – Real Change for real change! |
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