About Us

Tracey (she/her) leads JwJ SF’s work on climate justice and just transition, and has led the coalition’s accountable development work to victories including community benefits agreements with local hotel developers guaranteeing workforce training funding and good jobs. Prior to joining JwJ in 2017, Tracey was campaign director then co-director of the statewide environmental justice coalition Californians for Pesticide Reform for 14 years, where she grew organizing capacity to build power in farmworker communities, and coordinated the successful campaign to ban a cancer-causing strawberry pesticide nationally. Tracey has an M.S. in Environmental Science, Policy & Management from UC Berkeley and is an herbalist who sees clients and teaches about plant medicine.

Keane (he/him) works on JWJ SF’s housing and climate related campaigns. Keane came to JwJ with over eight years of organizing experience from Democratic campaigns, and the labor movement. He has run field operations on competitive campaigns, and supported workers in their fights to win fair contracts and safe working conditions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. He is an avid soccer fan, and spends his free time playing pick up soccer, gardening, and reading.

Maria (she/her) supports the housing and worker’s rights campaigns at Jobs with Justice as a Campaign Coordinator. Maria has six years of experience at a Bay Area worker center, where she organized restaurant workers to improve conditions within their workplaces, managed a workforce development project, and mobilized worker leaders to improve conditions via local and state policy. Maria loves staying active through dancing, hiking, swimming, and exploring places, foods, and cultures within CA and beyond.

Mateo Rebecchi (he/him) is an established organizer with substantial experience working with communities around veterans’ rights, environmental justice, housing justice, labor, and other grassroots campaigns. He began community organizing immediately after completing his military service with the United States Coast Guard. Ultimately, he believes that in any organization, even coalitions, the greatest resource is its people and the community it builts. 

Outside community organizing, he enjoys exploring subjects such as quantum mechanics, the physics of time, and all things paranormal.

Julia (she/her) is Senior Climate Policy Strategist at Jobs with Justice SF. In this capacity she supports a broad coalition of labor unions across California to advance climate policy, secure high road jobs and build critical infrastructure for all Californians. Prior to her work at Jobs with Justice SF, Julia directed research at One Fair Wage, a national coalition, campaign and organization seeking fair wages and working conditions for tipped and subminimum wage service workers. She also spent eight years leading research and strategy at Race Forward, a national movement building, research and media organization for racial justice. Outside of her professional work, Julia is co-coordinator of the White Noise Collective, a popular education organization focused on the intersection of racial privilege and gender oppression. Julia received her Masters of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Stanford University.

Sasha (she/her) provides communications strategy and operations support to JwJ SF campaigns. Sasha came to JwJ with fifteen years in the labor movement as a rank and file member of the Inlandboatman’s Union and a lead organizer at SEIU 1021 where she ran new organizing drives and contract fights. As staff at Pride at Work, Sasha led a campaign for trans-inclusive healthcare at Kaiser Permanente and educated Bay Area unions on how to advocate for queer and trans members through inclusive contract language. Sasha also brings her experience leading art builds and direct actions in the anti-war, global justice and climate justice movements to JwJ mobilizations. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and believes in the power of stories to help us understand and transform our reality.