Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Formation	1996
Headquarters	Oakland, California, USA
Co-Founder	Van Jones, esq.
Exec. Dir.	Marlene Sanchez
Website	ellabakercenter.org

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a non-profit strategy and action center based in Oakland, California. The stated aim of the center is to work for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America.^[1] It is named for Ella Baker, a twentieth-century activist and civil rights leader originally from Virginia and North Carolina.

Ella Baker Center works primarily through four initiatives to break cycles of urban violence and reinvest in urban centers. The organization calls for an end to recent decades of disinvestment in cities, excessive and sometimes racist policing, and over-incarceration in order to stop violence and hopelessness in poor urban communities and communities of color.^[1] The Ella Baker Center supports better schools, cleaner environment, and more opportunities for young people and working people.^[2]