Noni is a Co-founder and Executive Director of East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, which supports BIPOC and allied communities to finance, purchase, occupy, and steward collectively-owned land and housing. As a 3rd generation West Oaklander, cultural anthropologist, and grassroots organizer, Noni’s diverse formative, academic and professional background contributes to her unique approach to economic development. As a Fulbright-Hays fellow she studied international humanitarian strategies for developing communities globally. Upon completing her Doctoral work, she helped found several small scale collective civic action networks. After a 2016 run for city council where she garnered more than 43% of the District 3 vote, Noni saw a clear path to ameliorating resource disparities in her West Oakland community-- by building more cooperative networks and galvanizing opportunities for collective economic action. Since co-founding EB PREC, Noni has also co-founded BLACspace Cooperative as well as a Black-led rural intentional community Black to the Land @ Emerald Earth Sanctuary