CARE TAKING COUNCIL
Meeting our shared leadership team.
KENNETH C CLEMONS
MARISELA GOMEZ
Marisela B. Gomez is a community public health activist scholar who has been organizing in various capacities for equitable and sustainable alternative models for community development for more than 25 years in Baltimore MD. Relevant publications include Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America (2012 Lexington Books); Urban Redevelopment and Neighborhood Health in East Baltimore, Maryland: The Role of Communitarian and Institutional Social Capital; Policing, Community Fragmentation, and Public Health: Observations from Baltimore; Neoliberalization’s Propagation of Health Inequity in Urban Rebuilding Processes: The Dependence on Context and Path. She blogs at mariselabgomez.com
PAMELA JORDAN
Pamela Jordan is native Baltimorean, born, raised, and educated, in East Baltimore. She was a board member of SMEAC (Save Middle East Action Committee, Inc) which fought to assure equity for the more than 750 families impacted by the Johns Hopkins Urban Renewal Biotech Park in 2001 (herself impacted). She is a current board member of East Baltimore Development Inc and a leader in several community associations in East Baltimore.
KATHERINE WILLIAMS
Katherine Williams, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP is a licensed architect in Northern Virginia. She has had a varied career path from traditional architecture firms to community development to managing commercial construction for a general contractor. She has served as chair of the AIA Housing and Community Development KC advisory group, the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) magazine editor, and was an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow in San Francisco. She was a 2016 recipient of the AIA Virginia Emerging Professionals award.
Kenneth C. Clemons is a graduate of Coppin State University in 2016 with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Urban Arts/Visual with a minor in Non-profit management, and an Associate of Arts Degree from Community College of Baltimore County in 2012. Mr. Clemons is from West Baltimore now residing in East Baltimore. He is an emerging artist who produces various forms of artwork ranging from illustration, plywood sculpture artwork, and painting murals; an artist assistant with well-known artists within different communities around Baltimore City. Mr. Clemons describes himself as more than just an artist; he is an educator and art student for life. He is the artist in residence for VOLAR as well a member of the Care Taking Council and created the logo for VOLAR.
