Wood Street

Caron Creighton, Director

Caron Creighton is a journalist and filmmaker residing in Oakland, California. Caron has worked for The Associated Press, AJ+, KCBS Radio and The San Francisco Chronicle and has lectured at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She has reported on the struggles faced by Eritrean migrants in Israel, and West African migration through Latin America.

LaMonté Ford, Participant

LaMonté is a leader in the Wood Street community. He helped to build the Wood Street Commons - a space that offered food, clothing and shelter to other unhoused people. He also helped found the Wood Street Commons, and works with his community to help change negative perceptions of homeless people.

John Janosko, Participant

John is a leader in the Wood Street community. He helped to build the Wood Street Commons - a space that offered food, clothing and shelter to other unhoused people- and organized his unhoused neighbors at Wood Street in an attempt to save their long term, supportive community from eviction. Now, he helps run the Wood Street Commons non-profit organization as part of a larger team of unhoused and formerly unhoused activists who are working to build a layered system of deeply affordable housing in Oakland.

Caron Creighton, Director

LaMonté Ford, Participant

John Janosko, Participant

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