Candida Haynes
Community Elder
Social impact consultant, ethical developer, computer scientist in the wild.
Candida Haynes has lived in a socially conscious co-op community in Oakland since 2017. As a software developer, she mentored social justice organizations in Oakland, helping them develop technology to scale their work and make sure their technologies are aligned with their social justice values and priorities.
Progressive experience over ten years as an educator, program manager, and operations manager informs her contributions as process manager, collaborator, and builder. After working to support technical and nontechnical founders from underrepresented groups with one of Oakland's global social impact investors, Candida continues to support entrepreneurs and new technologists in the East Bay's emerging technology scene.
She is an avid contributor to the local and global technology community and a self-taught software developer who found her way to programming through an interest in social media tools and relentless curiosity about their underlying technology. She is passionate about collaborative learning, civic engagement, voting rights, and helping people use technology to amplify their potential.
Betsy Morris
Treasurer
Betsy has been committed to community-based housing and economic development since the 1980s. Her roles have included project developer, program director and applied research consultant, working mainly with nonprofit grassroots organizations and leadership in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color throughout the Bay Area.
Betsy holds a Masters and PhD in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. She has been a public advocate on "Legal Pathways to Tiny Home Ecovillages" since 2015, and is a member of Berkeley Cohousing and the Cohousing Research Network, along with several international research forums on self-governing collectives.
In 2006, with her partner Raines Cohen, Betsy co-founded East Bay Cohousing and Cohousing California. Together they offer public talks and trainings, run conferences, and report on the status of cohousing, cooperatives, and ecovillages worldwide.
Her other board service includes West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation (1990–2010), the Foundation for Intentional Community (2011–2017), and the East Bay Gray Panthers (2016–present). Betsy has also been an ally to the Bay Area Landless Peoples Alliance through the East Bay Gray Panthers and its forming groups since 2017.
More on her professional projects at BetsyMorris.com.
Phoenix Armenta
Community Elder
Phoenix Armenta is the Senior Manager for Climate Equity and Community Engagement at the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. They work on operationalizing equity and environmental justice across the agency, and have specifically worked to integrate equity into BCDC's permitting and planning processes.
They previously worked with community-based organizations including the Mycelium Youth Network and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, and have been an equity advisor to several regional projects including BayCAN, BCDC BayAdapt, and Resilient by Design.
They hold a B.A. in Anthropology from Howard University and an M.A. in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley, with a specialty in environmental justice and social movement theory.
Tim Anderson
Community Elder
After testing the limits of tiny home legality in five different Bay Area municipalities, Tim founded Alameda Maker Farm in 2015, which quickly became the biggest maker space and tiny home community in the Bay Area and later spawned two other urban tiny home villages in Alameda.
A product of MIT maker space culture, Tim cofounded Z Corporation, one of the first nontoxic 3-D printing companies in the early days of the technology.
Tim is known as the most prolific contributor to the DIY website Instructables, and wrote a column for Make Magazine called Heirloom Technology, focused on old solutions for new problems.
When Tim isn't advising tiny home communities and maker spaces, he spends most of his time on his pig farm in the Delta, perfecting the art of future-ready sustainable agriculture.