Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
K. Iris Craige currently serves as the Assistant Director of Policy and Research at Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, a position held since August 2023. Previously, K. Iris Craige worked as a Housing Element Intern at SF Planning and gained extensive experience at the East Bay Community Law Center as a Program/Intake Coordinator, facilitating housing intake, providing administrative support to attorneys, and advocating for clients. K. Iris Craige also held positions as Program Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator at Eviction Defense Collaborative, Inc., and worked as a Law Clerk, developing case strategies and drafting legal documents. Earlier experience includes an organizing internship at Tenants Together, focused on tenant rights advocacy. K. Iris Craige holds a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and a Bachelor's degree in Community Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
SAJE is a 501c3 non-profit organization in South Los Angeles. Since 1996 SAJE has been a force for economic justice in our community focusing on tenant rights, healthy housing, and equitable development. SAJE has taken many notorious slumlords to court, has established a land trust, and helped implement innovative popular education programs. We run a regular tenant clinic, help connect local residents to jobs, and fight for community benefits regarding future development through private agreements and public policies. We believe that the fate of city neighborhoods should be decided by those who dwell there, and we convene with other organizations to ensure this occurs in a manner that is fair, replicable, and sustainable.