Ivette Cabrera
Ivette has been a community organizer for the past 15 years and has been very fortunate to work with amazing people. She supports many issues but has focused her work around issues of environmental justice, affordable higher education, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS prevention/education, police accountability, housing and contextual development. Ivette considers herself lucky to have a 15-minute walk to work as a paralegal and believes that kids have a right to have a 15-minute walk to a school they love. She grew up in Sunset Park where she and her husband Guy are raising her teenaged daughter Ciara and their puppy Apple.

Ninoshka "Nino" Garrick
Ninoshka was born in Panama City, Panama but was raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. She lived in Bay Ridge for a few years but continued to go to school in Sunset Park. She moved back and has lived in Sunset Park since the sixth grade. She has worked with organizations that have facilitated her love for issues that affect the neighborhood on a daily basis. Currently attending John Jay College, Ninoshka hopes to graduate with B.A in Urban Affairs and Community Leadership and a minor in History.

Rebecca Giordano
Rebecca was born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. After graduating from college, she received a Compton Foundation Mentor Fellowship to teach young environmental justice organizers how to make videos. She has since spent the last five years teaching youth of all ages how to make videos for social change and organizing other independent media projects with Paper Tiger Television. She is currently enrolled in Brooklyn College's Masters in Education program working towards becoming certified as a NYC Social Studies teacher.

Caroline Loomis
Caroline works with young people to grow food and build more just food systems. In 2002, she received a Compton Mentor Fellowship to work with community-based urban agriculture projects in Oakland and Berkeley, California. Since returning East in 2005, she has been leading youth and community programs on Added Value's 2.75-acre urban farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Raquel Hernandez
Raquel has worked as an educator and guidance counselor at the Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School for the past 12 years and is a native of Sunset Park. She has committed her career as an educator to creating quality educational experiences for students of diverse cultures, ethnicities and languages.

Eric Siegel
Eric is the proposed principal for the SPEAC School. He is a Sunset Park resident and parent of a fifth grader in PS 24's Dual-Language Program. Eric has twenty years of experience in education as a teacher, doctoral student, professional developer, and high school coordinator. He has helped lead the high school expansion at School for Leadership in Red Hook (now in its second year).

Amita Swadhin
Amita has worked as an educator and youth/parent organizer in Brooklyn public high schools, after-school programs, and community-based organizations since 2001. Her expertise is in developing curricula and programs to empower people to fight issues of social injustice and in supporting partnerships between small schools and local organizations. She works for Kingsborough Community College, is a Reynolds Fellow and a candidate for a Masters in Public Administration at the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU, and has lived in Sunset Park since 2006.

Linda Tigani
Linda was born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. A 2008 graduate from Bard College, her focus of study was Sociology and Race and Ethnicity. She has spent the last few years working on developing curriculum that inspires youth to create social change through learning history. She is hoping to work within the field of educational policy as well as becoming a certified teacher.