What is the role of the Ella Baker Center and the Oakland Apollo Alliance?
• The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights played a critical role in the creation of the Oakland Green Jobs Corps. The Ella Baker Center continues to support and advise the program as an outside consultant. • The Ella Baker Center along with the International Brotherhood for Electrical Workers Union (IBEW 595) co-convene the Oakland Apollo Alliance. The Oakland Apollo Alliance includes experts and leaders from workforce development, organized labor, academia, green business, and economic and social justice organizations that are working together to turing Oakland into a model sustainable city that creates high quality jobs for its residents while cleaning up the environment, improving public health and helping America achieve energy independence. The Oakland Apollo Alliance and the Ella Baker Center designed, championed, and won city funding for the Oakland Green Jobs Corps.