Featured Leader: Myrna Schwartz

Featured Leader: Myrna Schwartz

From the South Bronx to Philadelphia to Alameda County, Myrna Schwartz is compelled by the Jewish value of tikkun olam — repair the world. She works to end the over-incarceration of people with mental illness, substance use disorder, and homelessness....
Featured Leader: Ernestine J. Wilson

Featured Leader: Ernestine J. Wilson

FIAEB leader Ernestine J. Wilson celebrates her influences (including some past and present FIAEB staff) and puts her faith into action by working toward a cleaner and safer Oakland. When did you first get involved with Faith in Action East Bay (FIAEB)? What inspired...
Our New Organizer, Chris Logan

Our New Organizer, Chris Logan

Welcome to our new organizer, Chris Logan! Chris Logan grew up in Detroit and moved to the Bay Area in 2020 where he served as an organizer for PACT and Sacred Heart Community Service in San Jose. He worked on public safety, alternatives to policing, and affordable...

Featured Leader: Pastor Billy Dixon

Pastor Billy Dixon learned about how humanity should be treated by serving as a correctional officer for 28 and a half years. “It opened my eyes that everybody that goes to jail doesn’t necessarily need jail. There should be alternatives in a lot of cases.” The...

Guns to Garden Tools Program Gets Guns Off Streets

Faith in Action East Bay Organizer Payton Silket (center) with Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (to the left) and others at the Guns to Gardens Gun Buyback Event that took place Saturday, June 10 at At Thy Word Ministries. The second annual Guns to Gardens was a success! In...

Home is Sacred Day of Action

On Thursday, April 20, Faith in Action East Bay leaders and staff gathered with 650 PICO California faith leaders from across the state to tell our elected officials that Home Is Sacred and to keep families housed by passing SB 567, SB 4, SB 225, AB 1418, and ACA...