“I know that I can do all things
and that no purpose of yours can be hindered”
— JŌB 42:2

Mission
Board of Directors
History
Frequently Asked Questions
Meet the Staff

Mission

JŌB’s mission is to invest in the development of community leaders so that they may address issues that affect them, their families and their communities.

Board of Directors

Reverend Curt Fuller
President

Geoffrey Hueter
Vice-President

Ema Flores
Secretary

Robert “Bobby” Lauderbaugh
Treasurer

History

JŌB began in 2003 when a group of clergy and community leaders began coming together to envision a regional, county-wide, faith-based organization focused on addressing the disparities in San Diego County. The leadership of JŌB committed to engage other community institutions in an effort to build bridges across race, class, and geography, bringing more people to the table of justice. In October, 2004, JŌB held its inaugural event with a 2,000 person public meeting. 

JŌB is presently staffed by  two full time organizers, and an Operations Manager and is continuing on its path to becoming a powerful countywide organization.


COVENANTING STATEMENT

As people created in the image of God and inspired by Sacred Scripture, our faith traditions, and by courageous forebears of faith, we here unite to labor and serve together to advance community, justice, equity, peace and understanding in San Diego County.

As a committed people, we covenant with each other to overcome attitudes which separate us from each other and which damage true community.

As a faithful people, we covenant to accept our differences and therefore we pledge to seek those higher, unifying goals, which provoke us in the direction of a greater shared good.

As an interdependent people, we believe that our destiny is inextricably intertwined with our neighbors.

As an organized people, we covenant to build bridges and relationships across cultural, economic, geographical, racial, and religious lines.

Humbled by the task before us, we are inspired by the Power within us.  Drawing authority and strength from our historic and rich faith traditions, we hereby covenant to take up our work with faith, with hope, and with love.  May God’s blessings be upon us, as we endeavor to be a blessing to others.  AMEN.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What community issues will JŌB work on?
Issues our leadership is presently committed to are:

• Civil Rights for Immigrants (Comprehensive Immigration Reform)
• Health Care Access
• Increased Voter Registration, Education and Participation in underrepresented communities.

These are issues that our membership believes are having the most impact on their members and communities.  Task Forces are created that provide an opportunity for congregations to work together toward a solution.  Potential solutions are brought to a major public meeting for resolution.

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Meet the Staff

Norma Chávez-Peterson
Norma Chávez-Peterson, while Community Revitalization Director of the MAAC Project, was one of the community leaders that founded Justice Overcoming Boundaries of San Diego County in 2004. With over 13 years of experience in the field of community economic development, she currently serves as the Director of Justice overcoming Boundaries.

Norma is a Mexican Immigrant, raised in San Diego. Over the last fifteen years, she has volunteered, worked, and served on the boards of several community organizations in the Latino Community. After attending University of San Diego after high school, several community colleges, Norma worked her way to receive her Bachelors degree from San Diego State University in Political Science and Chicano/a Studies in 2000.

Then, under her leadership at MAAC Project, Norma was responsible for several innovative community economic development projects including; resident leadership, community technology centers, first-time home buyer opportunities, and played a critical role in developing their community organizing and advocacy capacity.

On October 3rd 2004, Norma was part of the organizing team that organized “Rolling Thunder” a public meeting with 2,000 San Diego County residents standing up for Civil Rights of Immigrants, Healthcare Access- Prop 72, Equity in Public Education and Affordable Housing at the Town and Country Convention Center.

In 2006, Norma was co-chair of the April 9th March for Dignity, Respect and Hope, the largest march in the history of San Diego.
Norma continues to develop her professional community organizing skills with the support and mentorship of Mary Gonzales, Western Region Director for the The Gamaliel Foundation.
Under her Leadership JŌB continues to develop itself as a multi-racial, interfaith countywide organization committed to social justice.

Pedro Silva, JŌB Community Organizer
He obtained his bachelors degree from Cal State San Marcos in Sociology. Pedro has an extensive list of community involvement experience that began in his high school years and was carried into his college years organizing against Proposition 187, a California anti-immigrant initiative. He brings to the organization more than 8 years in labor organizing experience through his role as Assistant Regional Director for United Domestic Workers of America. He most recently worked as Community Outreach Specialist for the SD/Imperial County Labor Council. Pedro was raised in North San Diego County with his Mexican Immigrant parents, he is bilingual (English/Spanish).

Emmanuelle Regis, Operations Manager
As the former director of the San Diego office of Californians for Justice, Emmanuelle Regis brings a wealth of organizational development, community organizing, and policy advocacy experience to her position as Operations Manager/Fiesta del Sol Coordinator of JŌB.  Emmanuelle is a graduate of UCSD and is fluent in both Spanish and French.

CONSULTANTS
Mary Gonzales
Mary is the California Director for Gamaliel Foundation, an international organizing institute building faith-based organizing in the United States, Canada and South Africa.

Mary began organizing professionally in 1980. Prior to that she was a highly recognized leader in a community organization in Chicago that won many significant campaigns for the immigrant residents of the community.

Prior to assuming her role in California, she was the founding director of the Metropolitan Alliance of Congregations, a regional organization in the Chicago area that has successfully brought together a diversity of faith communities representing many races, income levels and cultures. MAC has led powerful campaigns that are building the political will to end inequity in how public and private resources are distributed in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Mary is a National Staff member of the Gamaliel Foundation and one of its primary trainers. She trains at all the Gamaliel Foundation training events and often travels to Gamaliel affiliated organizations to train. She is Mexican-American, a Chicago native, a resident of the Pilsen community in Chicago and mother of four daughters.

Barbara Hall
Barbara has worked with a diverse range of social and economic justice organizations, educational groups, and community development corporations over the past 16 years. She has developed and secured millions of dollars in foundation, corporate, and public funding for human capital development; youth employment, supportive housing; economic policy research; organizing and advocacy; and regional and national technical assistance programs focused on building the capacity of immigrant and refugee organizations to engage in affordable housing activities.   Ms. Hall earned her Masters degree in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and was trained in outcome models for program development and evaluation by the Rensselaerville Institute and the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.   She is of African American, Filipino, and Native American descent and has worked with diverse communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Atlanta, New York and other communities throughout the country.

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