Who We Are

Meet our staff!

 

Image Credit: Brooke Anderson.

Kimi Lee brings three decades of experience organizing and working with social justice organizations to her role as the Executive Director of Bay Rising. Kimi has organized students with the University of California Student Association and served as field director for the ACLU of Southern California, executive director of the Garment Worker Center, lead organizer of the United Workers Congress, among many other leadership roles. Her first-generation family immigrated to the U.S. from Burma in 1971.

Irene Rojas-Carroll provides visionary strategic as well as technical communications, digital, and cultural organizing expertise to Bay Rising and its alliance members. Before joining Bay Rising, she worked with the ACLU of Northern California, the Greenlining Institute, and the Brown Boi Project, and was involved in student organizing projects on racial, gender, labor, and environmental/land justice issues.

Claire Donovan-Suguitan is a recent graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied Sociology with an emphasis in community studies. During her time in higher education she pursued social justice through community organizing, grant writing, leadership building, and participatory research. Claire’s goal in life is to create communities that empower themselves and grow  their resilience and hope through collaboration and confidence building. In her personal life Claire loves being a naturalist, dancer, artist, and friend.