If you are interested in joining AHHA’s Board of Directors please contact us
by email: ahha.volunteer@gmail.com
By Phone: (707) 298-1466
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Nezzie Wade, Cofounder and President
Nezzie is a founding member of AHHA and President of the AHHA Board of Directors. Learning Skills Coordinator, University Learning Center (14 years); retired Sociology Professor HSU and College of the Redwoods, past Chairperson of the Humboldt County Human Rights Commission, past Secretary of the Board of Directors of RCAA, and participant in numerous other local organizations and previously served as journalist, author, and advisor on Humboldt Edge Advisory Board; a 40 year resident of Humboldt County. She has provided support as an advocate in the past decade to those experiencing homeless on the streets in Eureka and Humboldt County. Creating community through organizing, her network of allied people and agencies creates an impressive resume for leading this AHHA Village project. Her background in teaching, working with low income, high risk populations in diverse community settings, program and project development is well suited to this task.
Veronica Herman, Interim Secretary
Veronica became involved with AHHA to treat folks like she’d want to be treated. You could be in a predicament and needing a helping hand through auto accident, fire, tsunami or other TODAY!
Veronica was born in 1947, an Arkie. Three generations migrated with hundreds of thousands escaping the dust bowl, violence, losing everything to the poverty of the great depression, seeking refuge, jobs and safety. She found herself in the San Joaquin Valley at a farm camp. At 4, along with her grandfather in his 70s, she picked cotton, cut grapes, dug ditches, or hard labor and took in ironing, cleaned toilets, and any other work that came to hand.
Cab driver, bartender, restaurant manger and owner, Alaska State Library clerk, storyteller, bush rat are all titles Veronica has claimed.
Veronica wishes to pay it forward; be a human being, an instrument of positive change in the world, in gratitude to the universe for her life now.
Nayeli Ramirez, Board Member
Nayeli joined the Board in December for a three year term. Nayeli is from Bakersfield CA. She started with AHHA as an intern in the Fall of 2023. She is pursuing a degree in Criminology and Social Justice and has also been working on the CPH campus in the Financial Aid office, assisting students and their parents with financial aid inquiries.
She has been a wonderful asset to the organization; she is bilingual, of good humor, and serious about her work. She also loves horror films! Her enthusiasm and ideas for outreach and publicity, assistance with marketing, creating or designing posters, hosting events and engaging in direct services have been a positive infusion for AHHA. We are very happy to have her participation and commitment to the vision that everyone has a human right to a safe place to live.
Nayeli lead the collaboration between AHHA and Food For People on the Hunger-Fighter challenge, coordinating the pick and drop of locations and outreach to help feed Humboldt County’s folks in need during the holidays.
(In the photo above, Nayeli is receiving the proclamation from the City of Eureka for the week of November 11th-18th as Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week)