executive director
Caleb Roberts hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a background in community organizing around issues of transportation, economic development, and affordable housing. Caleb is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with an M.S. in Community and Regional Planning and received his B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. He previously worked as a Housing Advocate at Texas Housers, and as a Senior Planner for Gap Strategies. He is a husband, a writer of science fiction, and a lifelong track athlete.
E: caleb@downwindersatrisk.org
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER
Alicia Kendrick. Alicia Kendrick is a Joppa resident, mother and one of the founding participants of the three-year public health study in Joppa, the Joppa Environmental Health Project. She has been organizing in Joppa since 2021 initially as a volunteer, then as a Board member with Downwinders in 2022 and joined our staff in 2023. Alicia is skilled in community outreach, education and has developed curriculum for children on air pollution and health outcomes.
E: alicia@downwindersatrisk.org
bilingual COMMUNITY ORGANIZER
Esme Zuniga. Esme Zuñiga is originally from the Rio Grande Valley, with a background in teaching, advocacy and organizing around fair housing, drainage, streetlights, immigration, and community gang violence. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and currently on her MSW at University of Texas at Arlington.
E: esmeralda@downwindersatrisk.org