Zuretti Goosby, President
District Office Director & Field Representative, Senator Wesley Chesbro
Eureka, California
Previous to his legislative and public work with Senator Chesbro, Zuretti served as Executive Director of the Yurok Tribe and of the Redwood Community Action Agency. He volunteers his time expertise with local and national organizations, including the Volunteer Center of the Redwoods, the Open Door Community Health Centers, the Humboldt Arts Council and the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center.

Patricia Ellsberg, Vice President
Kensington, California
Patricia is a social change advocate with decades of experience in the peace, energy and social justice movements. As wife of Daniel Ellsberg, who first gained fame as the Pentagon nuclear strategist who released the so-called “Pentagon Papers,” Patricia has been at the center of many of the most intensive foreign policy debates over the past three decades.

David Hitchcock, Treasurer
Founding Partner, Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Sharples, & Hall
Arcata, California
David specializes in small business and nonprofit consulting and has been instrumental in the birth and success of many alternative enterprises in the Humboldt Bay region of Northern California. He holds a BS in Mathematics and a PhD in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has taught Business Administration in the California State University system.

Carolyn North, Secretary
Founder, Daily Bread
Berkeley, California
Carolyn is a dancer, author and movement teacher whose innovative initiatives have produced remarkable results in a wide range of fields. She founded Daily Bread, a project staffed entirely by volunteers that collects surplus food from restaurants and delivers it to food banks throughout the Bay Area. She is also the owner/designer of the first code-approved straw bale house in California.

Marylyn Paik-Nicely
Director, MultiCultural Center, Humboldt State University
Arcata, California
Marylyn received her Bachelor of Arts with an Interdisciplinary major in Asian Studies from Ohio Wesleyan University, Certificate of Study in Journalism (Public Relations emphasis) from Humboldt State University, and is presently working on her doctorate in Organizational Leadership and Management at the University of LaVerne. She serves as President Elect of the California Council of Cultural Centers in Higher Education. Marylyn was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii and still calls Hawaii “home.”