About

Darrell Dacres – CP4P Program Manager
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Darrell is a longtime resident of Rogers Park. He has truly experienced all aspects of our violence prevention program; Darrell started in violence prevention as a participant, then came on as a volunteer. In 2017, he was hired as a violence interrupter, then soon became an Outreach Worker. In 2019, he moved up to Program Supervisor, then became our Program Manager in 2021. His vision is to be the voice of the unheard people. Darrell was elected to the 24th District Police Council in 2023.

Zerell Davis – CP4P Program Supervisor
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Zerell is a Rogers Park resident and a big advocate for social justice and equality. He supervises our team of violence preventers for the Uptown and Rogers Park area, working boots-on-the-ground weekly. He became the team’s supervisor in 2022, three years after he was initially hired as an outreach worker. His goal is to continue doing this work for his community and staying productive and being a true pillar to his community.

Omar Dacres – CP4P Victim Advocate
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Omar was born and bred in Rogers Park. He joined the team in 2024. He is passionate about fitness and wellness and wants to share that with the community in addition to providing excellent support to those who need it as our Victim Advocate. When he’s not at work, he is acting as Superdad to his three daughters.

Khalil Cromwell – CP4P Outreach Worker
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Khalil was introduced to the work of outreach through volunteering. He started by educating participants on the importance of credit education. Through his volunteer work, he was brought on as an outreach worker! Outside of work, Khalil enjoys connecting with the community through financial literacy.

Ledarrel is a father of four, Uptown resident for over twenty five years, and a community activist since seventeen.

Isaac Dickson – CP4P Case Manager
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Adrian Martinez – CP4P Outreach Worker
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Adrian grew up in Rogers Park and has lived there his whole life. He joined the team in 2024 as an Outreach Worker. He is excited to give back to his community. When he’s not at work he loves to spend time with his kids.

Rolando Cabrera – CP4P Outreach Worker
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Rolando joined the team in 2023. He grew up in Edgewater. He is committed to creative violence prevention solutions for Rogers Park and Uptown. In his free time he spends time with his family.

Jesse Hoyt – Executive Director
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Jesse (he/him) is a lifelong Chicagoan, raised in Ravenswood. He currently lives in Albany Park with his wife, Mary Claire. With more than a decade of experience in political, community, and issue-based organizing, Jesse has worked at the local, statewide, and national levels. He has worked on many issue-based campaigns, including the fight to win temporary drivers’ licenses for undocumented Illinoisans and the Healthy Illinois campaign, which successfully expanded Medicaid for undocumented seniors in Illinois. He has also campaigned to elect progressive candidates in Chicago and central Illinois. When he isn’t organizing, Jesse enjoys spending time hiking, playing soccer, and exploring the city with his dog, Odis.

Hannah Gelder – Organizing Director
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Hannah (she/her) began as an organizer at Lakeview Action Coalition in 2008 and has been with the organization ever since. She supports our organizers and issue teams to develop winning campaign strategies that build our organization’s collective power. She is passionate about making sure our government and other Big Institutions serve the interests of the people and the planet, rather than the corporate elite. She lives in Edgewater with her partner, Charles, their sons, Aylan and Oren, and their dog, Nessie. When Hannah isn’t organizing or spending time with her family, she might be dancing, eating delicious food, reading, or enjoying her hobbies including gardening, knitting, and competitive dog training.

Ebony Deberry – Program Manager for Educational Initiatives
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Ebony (she/her) runs the Women of Color Group and oversees the Parent Mentor program. She has lived in Rogers Park her whole life, attending CPS as a student and teaching there, as well as having experience as a youth worker and restorative healing conversations practitioner. She is devoted to the development and leadership capacity of Women of Color in her community. Ebony is also mother to Caleb, who currently attends Howard University and is an organizer in his own right.

Becky Wanberg – Operations Manager
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Becky (she/her) joined the staff of the Organization of the Northeast (ONE) in 2010. She manages human resources and business compliance, maintains financial accounts, and ensures that administrative operations run smoothly. Her professional background ranges from work in corporate banking to regional theater. A Chicago-area native, Becky is proud to have raised her three children in this city and to be working to ensure that it is a safe and equitable place for all its residents.

Marie (she/her) joined the staff of ONE Northside in 2022 eager to help share the stories of people-powered change. She came to Chicago in 2012 for graduate studies at UIC in urban history, and has a passion for Chicago’s history, architecture, and neighborhoods. In her free time, you’ll find Marie at a local museum, reading a novel, or rooting for the Vegas Golden Knights (her home town hockey team).

Dordie Hester – Housing Justice Organizer – Homes Guarantee Committee
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Dordie (she/her) works with community members on legislation to support affordable housing including A National Homes Guarantee and the Illinois Repeal of the Rent Control Preemption Act. Dordie has a self interest in housing, having come from a family that has endured housing discrimination for more than eighty years. Before joining ONE Northside, Dordie lived and worked in Spain for over 25 years.

Seri Lee – Deputy Organizing Director
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Seri Lee (they/she) is a community organizer within the immigrant, racial, labor, and reproductive justice movements. Born and raised in the Chicago area, they grew up in a working-class mixed-status household, experiencing personally and within their family many of the issues they’re working to transform. Before joining ONE Northside, Seri worked at the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) as their National Campaign & Membership Director. Through their work at NAPAWF, they became the 2022 Chicago Foundation for Women’s Vanguard Award honoree. Seri holds a B.A. in Global History and Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies at Northwestern University and is currently pursuing a M.A. in Social Sector Leadership and Nonprofit Management at the University of Chicago. They dream of and work toward collective liberation.

Ruth Campos – Environmental Justice Organizer
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Ruth (she/her) is a queer land steward, a fire practitioner, a forager, and ONE Northside’s Environmental Justice Organizer. Ruth is deeply invested in community building, nature-based solutions to climate adaptations, and redistribution of resources. She is excited to organize people around green infrastructure to transition our communities to green energy. She loves bird watching in Montrose Beach, spending time with her partner and their cats, going on picnics, doing yoga, hiking, foraging, and learning how to make herbal medicine.