Naamah Brown
Communications Manager
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Naamah is a dedicated Communication Specialist with over three years of experience managing social media accounts for nonprofits and small businesses. She excels in creating engaging content and implementing successful campaigns. With a strong background in sales management and customer service, Naamah is skilled in building relationships and delivering exceptional results. She is passionate about advocating in both her personal and professional life. Naamah's project management expertise, proactive approach, and problem-solving abilities make her a valuable asset to any team. She is driven to make a positive impact through social media and community engagement.
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Desrianna Clary
Executive Administrative Assistant
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Desrianna Clary is a dedicated Administrative Assistant at Action for Action for Equity, where she has been an integral team member for three years. With a focus on community empowerment, Desrianna actively contributes to various initiatives, including the successful relocation of the organization's office.
She played a key role in the impactful Baldhill Builders program, facilitating enrollments and applications to provide construction job opportunities for community members to join the union. Additionally, Desrianna assisted in recruiting for the Blitz Team, a community outreach initiative. As part of the Action for Equity coalition, Desrianna works passionately towards an equitable society, striving for inclusivity and access to quality housing, jobs, and transportation for all. |
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Tarshia Green-WilliamsDeputy Director
Tarshia Green-Williams- Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. The Deputy Director at Action for Equity. Formally Tarshia was the external organizer with SEIU Local 509, organizing mental healthcare workers, and served as the Workers' rights organizer for Massachusetts Jobs with Justice for several years, working on different campaigns from legislative to coalition building. She became active in organizing as an unorganized worker at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She became an 1199 SEIU Healthcare Worker's East member and began as a shop steward. In 2007 Tarshia became a union organizer for 1199 SEIU Healthcare Worker's East. During that time, she worked on several nationwide healthcare and legislative organizing campaigns. Tarshia is currently directing the pipeline to quality Jobs for Boston residents.
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Niles Lashay
Green Equity Partnership Director
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Niles has been involved in nonprofits his whole life. As a transracial adoptee, he was privileged enough to have lived abroad for much of his youth. Those experiences shaped his perspective on social justice, particularly in his early teens in war-torn Cambodia. He continued to develop and refine this justice perspective throughout college and graduate school, where he received a Masters' in Intercultural Relations. As a black man raised in a white family and largely within white American communities, Niles was acutely aware of the intersections of race, class, wealth, and opportunity. Equity is in everything he does, from advocating and receiving a 30% raise for the largely black and brown front-line workers at a previous job to advocating for equitable stewardship of the Abenaki-White Mountains. Niles has always been a system changer and he is excited to continue the fight to dismantle white supremacist policies and laws with Action for Equity. In his spare time, Niles can be found, rain or shine, in the mountains with his dog Alfie, or at a local pub watching European football.
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Marvin Martin
Executive Director
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Marvin Martin is the Executive Director of Action for Equity, a coalition of community organizations promoting race and class equity through policy and organizing initiatives. Marvin Martin has over 30 years community organizing experience in Baltimore and Boston, particularly on issues such as land usage, housing policy, transportation & environmental justice and public safety. He has also served as the ED of the Greater Four Corners Action Coalition and the Greater Roxbury Neighborhood Authority and had stints at Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Neighbor to Neighbor and East Baltimore/Midway CDC among others. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston Open Doors Award and fellowships, including the Barr Fellows.
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Weezy Waldstein
Job's Coordinator
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Weezy Waldstein—Weezy Waldstein, now Action’s Jobs Coordinator, spent a decade as a shipyard welder before returning to school after the Quincy Shipyard closed. She led strategic planning and operations consulting with national unions and global non-profits including Bakery Workers, Carpenters, Partners in Health and Amnesty USA, serving clients seeking to shape a high skill, high wage economy and connect workers to good jobs through multi-stakeholder partnerships. At CommCorp, she served as the Director of the Workplace Learning Group, with responsibilities for its initial incumbent worker training demonstration projects and development of incumbent worker training programming for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She helped start the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute as the Director of Labor Market Participation, documenting high road partnerships. In 2002, she founded and then led until 2017 the program that became SEIU 615/32BJ’s SEIU Property Services New England Training Fund. She has a master’s degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
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