Meet Our Board

PABLO ALVARADO co-founded the National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) in 2001 and is the Co-Executive Director. He has been awarded multiple honors and recognitions including receiving the Next Generation Leadership Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation and in August 2005 was recognized as being among the 25 most influential Hispanics in the U.S. by TIME Magazine.

FLORENCE ANNANG is the founder of Thrive Learning Lab NW Pasadena, an After- School and Summer Camp in northwest Pasadena. She is a former graduate of the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative, and Executive Member of NAACP Pasadena Branch.

JULIETA ARAGON is the Minimum Wage Coordinator for the City of Pasadena. Julieta was previously the Organizer for CCEJAM and has been instrumental in recovering unpaid wages for Pasadena employees.

RICK COLE ​​​​served as the Mayor of Pasadena during his twelve year service as a City Councilmember (1983-95) and went on to serve as City Manager in three California cities: Azusa, Ventura and Santa Monica. He also served as Deputy Mayor for Budget and Innovation for the City of Los Angeles. He currently serves as a volunteer Housing Advisor to Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo. He was recently named Executive Director of the Congress for the New Urbanism, a national advocacy organization for equitable and sustainable urban design.

KIMBERLY DOUGLAS is a Research Librarian (Retired) and a Northwest Commissioner.

MARK MAIER is a thirty-year Pasadena resident and professor of economics at Glendale Community College specializing in labor economics and statistics.

KRIS OCKERSHAUSER comes to POP from CICOPP (Coalition for Increased Civilian Oversight of Pasadena Police) which she helped organize in. She is retired from work in social justice and social services nonprofits in the Los Angeles area, with a master’s degree in Social Welfare from UCLA and concentration in low-income community organizing.

REV. HANNAH PETRIE is the clergy founder of capacity- building NPO Jericho Road Pasadena and has organized her community to speak out against neighborhood violence. Hannah serves the UU Church of Studio City full-time as Minister and lives in Altadena.

JULIANA SERRANO is the Senior Associate for Peace & Justice and the Office for Creative Connections at All Saints Church in Pasadena and is on the Pasadena Police Chief’s Community Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley and the Learning Works Charter School. Prior to joining the staff at All Saints, Juliana Serrano was the Director of Operations at ENCOMPASS, a non-profit youth development organization

ED WASHATKA, a founding member of POP! is retired from a 35-year career in information technology in the entertainment Industry. Ed has made economic and social justice his new passion. He’s a 40 plus year member of ACT Pasadena, the ACLU - Pasadena Chapter,  and a member of the Arroyo Democratic Club.