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EMEAC’s intention is to create a just environment that affirms the humanity and dignity of everyone, as we work to build unity among grassroots justice organizations. We steward, protect and share an historic and essential space, The Commons, for political organizing, art production and other community enterprises. We are evolving a model of social justice movement independence and sustainability.
Tamika Davis
Manager, Programs & Partnerships
Tamika Davis is resilient, creative, resourceful and a native of Detroit. She is a graduate of Michigan State University and Wayne State University, majoring in Anthropology and teaching it as a Professor at WCCCD. She is also a visionary community leader and advocate, a maven working with a number of organizations to enhance strategic impact. Tamika is an Entrepreneur and Media Dynamo, but she is most proud of being a Mother of four sons (SonShines!). While actively engaged in a number of community endeavors that offer collaboration, she founded a women’s empowerment organization, Project WOW. This organization supports girls and women who are survivors of abuse, domestic violence and trauma.
Cecille Hutson
Program Coordinator, Detroit movement Center
Morgan Hutson is the Programming Coordinator for the Detroit Movement Center. A Detroit-born and based artist, her multidisciplinary background spans performing arts education, theater, athletics, dance, and a celebrated musical career as a vocalist, performer, and producer. Morgan’s work is rooted in a deep understanding of the body, mind, and spirit as a microcosmic reflection of the environment—each requiring consistent care, maintenance, and healing. She believes that true healing begins within, and while others can serve as supportive guides, the individual must ultimately allow and activate their own transformation. Through her practice, Morgan seeks to imbue a sense of personal empowerment and responsibility in the healing work she facilitates. With liberation and restoration as guiding principles, she also leads crystal sound bowl baths and is a certified Reiki Level 1 practitioner. Beyond her creative and healing practices, Morgan is a devoted pet parent and lifelong student of harmony between the inner and outer worlds.
Paul Jackson
Executive Director
An experienced organizer, naturalist, artist, builder, designer, and teacher Paul Jackson directs the East Michigan Environmental Action Council into a new phase of innovative and boldly imaginative environmental justice advocacy and energy resilience practice. Rooted in the stewardship of the Commons, a 34,000 sq-ft mixed used campus in Midtown Detroit, the cultural heart of Detroit and Southeast Michigan, EMEAC incubates and models future oriented experiments, ideas and practices in environmental health, energy democracy and resilience, and community self-determination and equity in real estate development and historic site modernisation and design. With a background in education and institutional advancement, Paul seeks to usher in an era of unbridled creativity and productive eccentricity in service to our community.
Carla Rivers
Senior Manager, Operations
Carla Rivers is a creative and visionary leader. With an extensive background in business management and senior team leadership, Carla is a doer with a track-record of results-driven operational growth. Carla brings to the Commons a background in the housing and insurance sectors. A classically trained musician, Carla merges sharp business acumen with ingenuity, creativity, and artistry. Currently, Carla co-owns Florella Strings, a strings duo and music program based in Detroit with an international reach. Carla graduated from Michigan State University and a proud mother.
Jerome Sims
Coordinator of Campus Life, the commons
We work to build environmental justice through democratic, revolutionary organizing. And we believe that an educated and organized mass of everyday people can transform society from a force of environmental destruction to one of healing and regeneration.
East Michigan Environmental Action Council works to build a movement to produce environmental justice as a transformation of society. We work to build a transformative environmental justice movement from within the broad base of neighborhoods and communities of Southeast Michigan. We analyze our community’s collective problems and work toward real solutions, those that address root causes and produce lasting change, working within our Six Pillars of Power:
- Science & Knowledge Production
- Eco-Socialism: Ecological & Economic Freedom
- Black Liberation: Internationalism & Solidarity
- People’s schools: Political Education & Organizing
- Black Arts & Culture: Spiritual Grounding & Ancestral Veneration
- Radical Futurity: Youth Power & Intergenerational Study
Office Hours Mon – Sat
10.00am – 4.00pm (except holidays)
email: umoja@emeac.org
phone: (313) 556-1702
Detroit, MI 48201
