As we settle into a new year, EBHO is steadfastly focused on continuing to make progress on realizing our Vision of a racially and economically just East Bay where everyone has a safe, stable, and affordable home. We will advance the goals and priorities outlined in our 2023-2026 Strategic Plan, which all point back to our unwavering belief that Housing is a Human Right.
In 2024, EBHO grew to 14 staff members – the largest the organization had ever been. While fully staffed, this allowed us to have unprecedented capacity to achieve our housing justice advocacy goals. However, in order to both meet the current moment and plan for the long-term sustainability of the organization, we made some significant organizational changes in 2024. The most recent changes happened at the end of the year, when we said farewell to two longer term members of the EBHO Organizing team – Director of Organizing, Dolores Tejada and Community, Faith & Justice Organizer, Ronnie Boyd. If you have been a member or partner of our organization for a while, I don’t need to tell you how important each of their contributions have been to EBHO as an organization and to the broader housing justice movement. Please read on below to be reminded of just some of Dolores’s and Ronnie’s accomplishments during their time with EBHO.
EBHO remains committed to our organizing work, including our partnership with the faith community. Over the next few months, EBHO staff and board members will work together, with input from our members and partners, to develop the roadmap that will take us to the end of our strategic plan in 2026 given our recent organizational changes. In the immediate future, Angelina Cornejo, Senior Campaign Strategy Associate, will convene Oakland Committee and support Lead Organizer, Damion Scott, and Suburban Organizer, Davina Srioudom, with Leadership Academy 2025. Chief Program Officer, Rev Sophia DeWitt, will continue to oversee the Organizing Team and serve as lead for our Faith & Justice work.
We appreciate your support and continued partnership as we navigate our recent organizational changes. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email us at staff@ebho.org. I am looking forward to an exciting and impactful year of furthering housing justice with all of you.
Be well,
— Lindsay Haddix, Executive Director
Dolores Tejada

Dolores Tejada has made a lasting impact on EBHO since joining in 2018. Here are just a few of their many contributions:
- Leading Leadership Academy and developing the curriculum currently used in the program
- Worked with members to re-center the Resident and Community Organizing Program (RCOP) on effective advocacy and leadership development
- Being a crucial part of the negotiations around the proposed Oakland A’s stadium development at Howard Terminal
- Building relationships with Oakland City Council Members on the strength of our expertise and organizing – and being formally recognized for it by CM Kalb during in 2024
- Working with Oakland CM Kaplan to present the resolution to forward commit $164MM of Measure U Funds. Upon successful passage of the resolution, HCD has been able to utilize this tool resulting in being able to build affordable housing faster
- Being a leading voice in determining strategy and priorities for the Oakland City Budget as a part of the Oakland People’s Budget Coalition and turning out EBHO members to speak out
- Organizing and moderating candidate forums so that voters can make informed decisions based on candidates’ positions on housing issues
- Organizing and facilitating discussions about the intersection of disability and housing justice, including EBHO’s September 2024 Lunch & Learn webinar.
You can stay in touch with Dolores via LinkedIn.
Ronnie Boyd

Since joining four years ago, Ronnie Boyd has continued the tradition of EBHO’s strong connection to the faith community as part of our housing justice work. Here are just a few of her many contributions:
- Co-managing Leadership Academy – including curriculum development, applicant recruitment, and session facilitation
- Leading the Faith & Justice Committee, meeting monthly and determining the committee’s priorities and goals for the year. This included planning and executing the program for EBHO’s Annual Faith & Justice event. At Ronnie’s suggestion, EBHO held our first ever Day of Action in 2024 which had over 100 attendees.
- Supporting our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) work, helping create a toolkit and collaborating on designing a new EBHO culture centered on Black equity
- Organizing EBHO staff to participate as volunteers in the annual Point in Time (PIT) Count in Alameda County
- Advocating for the successful passage of CA Senate Bill 4 (Wiener) in 2023 which made it legal for faith-based institutions and non-profit colleges to build affordable, multi-family homes by-right on lands they own by streamlining the permitting process and overriding local zoning restrictions
You can stay in touch with Ronnie via LinkedIn.