If you are interested in joining AHHA’s Board of Directors please contact us
by email: ahha.volunteer@gmail.com
By Phone: (707) 298-1466
Drop by our office at 840 E St Eureka 95501
Or complete application online
We will set up a follow up appointment
Nezzie Wade, Cofounder and President
Nezzie is a founding member of AHHA and President of the AHHA Board of Directors. Learning Skills Coordinator, University Learning Center (14 years); retired Sociology Professor HSU and College of the Redwoods, past Chairperson of the Humboldt County Human Rights Commission, past Secretary of the Board of Directors of RCAA, and participant in numerous other local organizations and previously served as journalist, author, and advisor on Humboldt Edge Advisory Board; a 40 year resident of Humboldt County. She has provided support as an advocate in the past decade to those experiencing homeless on the streets in Eureka and Humboldt County. Creating community through organizing, her network of allied people and agencies creates an impressive resume for leading this AHHA Village project. Her background in teaching, working with low income, high risk populations in diverse community settings, program and project development is well suited to this task.
Alexandria Wilson, board member
Alex is a graduate student at Cal Poly Humboldt studying Public Sociology. Though she was born in Humboldt County, she became involved in housing justice advocacy work while living in Sacramento, California after receiving her bachelors degree from the University of California, Davis. Alex has previously worked with systems change and harm reduction organizations including Decarcerate Sacramento, an abolitionist group focused on decarceration and preventing local jail expansions, and the National Lawyer Guild Ticket Defense Clinic, which provides free legal assistance to the unhoused community of Sacramento.
She lives in Arcata with her partner of the same name and their three cats: Nacho, Lady, and Chud.
Jannis Stacy, Board Member
Jannis Stacy is a long-time resident of the Humboldt Community. She attended HSU, receiving her degree in Business in 1986. She has been employed in numerous non-profit agencies for accounting and grant writing. She was among a small group who wrote the seed grant for RCAA. She became RCAA’s first Fiscal Officer. She believes all members of our community should be entitled to live with dignity in a safe, warm environment with access to services and opportunities to thrive.
Dion Davis, board member
Born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and raised in Los Angeles, Dion Davis is almost a twenty year resident of Humboldt County. A graduate of Cal Poly Humboldt, Mr Davis has worked with a variety of organizations from the J.Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles to the Names Project in Washington DC and local organizations like the Ferndale Repertory Theater.
Dion believes that everyone deserves a house and dignity and respect. Dion is on the pathway to completing a Masters in Social Work at Cal Poly Humboldt.