Howie Hawkins, South Side Community Coalition
Elizabeth Friedrich, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions

Howie Hawkins has lived on South Side since moving to Syracuse in 1991, where he has been active in the community on many issues. Howie was active in the campaigns to establish a Citizens Review Board in the 1990s and the Living Wage Ordinance in the 2000s. He was a supporter of the now much-missed South Side Newsstand. Currently a board member of the Southside Community Coalition, Howie also serves on the board of the Southside Food Cooperative, which is planning to open a consumer-owned grocery store on south Salina Street.

Elizabeth Friedrich is coordinator of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions' "Building a Cooperative City" efforts in New York City.  She has also been active with Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy the Financial System teach-in.