NEN Steering Committees
The Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) recognizes its commitment to help communities achieve sustainability by addressing a wide range of challenges. In an effort to support this ambitious goal, the NEN has assembled leaders from a variety of important sectors to help steward its development.
Executive Steering Committee:
- Cindy Brandon
Executive Director, SF SAFE
Ms. Brandon is the Executive Director of SF SAFE. She has degrees in Criminal Justice and Political Science, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. Read More.
- Harold Brooks
CEO, Bay Area Red Cross
Harold Brooks is CEO of the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter. He is responsible for overseeing the strategic development of one of the leading American Red Cross chapters in the country. Read More.
- Gerald Eisman
Director, Institute for Civic and Community Engagement of SFSU
Gerald Eisman earned his doctorate in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977. He joined the faculty of Computer Science at SF State in 1989, where he served as full professor and chair for 9 years. Read More.
- David Gershon
Founder and CEO, Empowerment Institute
David Gershon, founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, is one of the world's leading authorities on behavior change and large-scale transformation. Read More.
- Michael Pappas
Executive Director, San Francisco Interfaith Council
Michael Pappas was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. He graduated from Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) in 1983, after which he successively worked as a lobbyist, Regional Field Director for a presidential campaign and investment banker for the oldest municipal bond firm in New Jersey. Read More.
- John Power
Executive Director, The Volunteer Center
As Executive Director of The Volunteer Center Serving San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, John leads an organization that for over sixty years has nurtured respected and long-standing relationships among the Bay Area’s business, government, nonprofit and volunteer communities. Read More.
- Kelly Quirke
Executive Director, Friends of the Urban Forest
Kelly Quirke is the Executive Director of Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) in San Francisco. FUF is a community-building organization that has planted more than 42,000 trees along the streets of every San Francisco neighborhood since 1981 (www.fuf.net). Read More.
- Dr. Isabel Wade
Executive Director of the Neighborhood Parks Council (NPC)
Dr. Isabel Wade, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Parks Council (NPC), created this organization in 1996 in an effort to "take back" the parks, which have suffered decline due to budget cuts. Read More.
Community Steering Committee:
- Carol Mo
- Sunset Community Community Convener
- Dan Nguyen-Tan
- Board Member, North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association
- Dawn Trennert
- Middle Polk Neighborhood Association
- Deb Neiman
- Director, Noe Valley Association
- Dina Hillard
- Organizer, Safety Network, Tenderloin
- Erick Arguello
- President, Lower 24th Street Merchant and Neighborhood Association
- Ethel Newlin
- Director of Constituent Relations, District Attorney’s Office
- Foster Weeks
- Board Member, Clementina Cares, Inc.
- Gillian Gillett
- President, San Jose & Guerrero Avenue Coalition to Save Our Streets
- Glen Hatakeya
- President, Mission Extension Triangle Neighborhood Association
- Jane Martin
- Founder, PlantSF
- Jed Lane
- Founder, Friends of Miraloma Park
- Judith Berkowitz
- President, Coalition of San Francisco Neighborhoods
- Kevin Blackwell
- Organizer, Safety Network, Visitation Valley
- Laurel Muniz
- President, North West Bernal Alliance
- Leela Gill
- President, North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association
- Marc Christensen
- Vice President, Mission Extension Triangle Neighborhood Association
- Mary Harris
- President, Ocean – Merced – Ingleside Neighbors in Action
- Meredith Thomas
- Stewardship Program Manager, Neighborhood Parks Council
- Michael Bennett
- Director, Visitation Valley Beacon Center
- Oona Gille-Weil
- Program Director, San Francisco SAF
- Ron Miguel
- Planning Association of the Richmond
- Shannell Williams
- Program Director, The Center For Young Women's Development
- Sheryl Davis
- Director, Community Convener, Mo' Magic Western Addition
- Steve Adams
- President, Merchants of Upper Market and Castro
- Vallie Brown
- Lower Haight Ashbury Merchant and Neighborhood Association