FOUNDER

Huey German-Wilson has lived and worked in Trinity/Houston Gardens for over 30 years.

As a member of Trinity Gardens Church of Christ, she has worked faithfully with the Joseph’s Storehouse Pantry and Community Liaison. Working with the church has allowed her many opportunities to support the community and address the Food Insecurity issues that we face.

She has also been very active in her community. She spent the spring of 2013 rallying the community to build an awesome KABOOM community playground and garden in the Trinity Gardens community.

Huey is currently working with several community organizations including serving as president of Super Neighborhood 48-Trinty/Houston Gardens, Kashmere Feeder Pattern Community Council, Keep Houston Beautiful-Commissioner, and one of the founding directors of Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council.

She continues to work on a more resilient community after Hurricane Harvey through her efforts with Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), University of Houston. Texas Southern University, and Rice University, to name a few.

In her work with NEHRC, she has led multiple partnerships to achieve a Resilience HUB/Lilypad to ensure neighbors in Northeast Houston are ready for the next disaster, as the disasters are ever changing in Northeast Houston, including Winter Storm Uri and COVID-19. The Resilience HUB has been developed in partnership with the City of Houston, Resilience Cities Catalyst, and JPMC.

FOUNDER

Keith Downey is a native of Houston, Texas. He attended Prairie View A&M University majoring in Architecture, the University of Texas at Arlington, he studied environmental justice at Texas Southern University and at Cornell University where he studied Servant Leadership.

Keith moved to New York City after receiving his formal education and worked as an Architect and Senior Construction project manager there. He returned to Houston where he was the co-creator of wraparound services for students in need within school districts around the Houston Area.

Keith is the President of Kashmere Gardens Super Neighborhood Council #52, and Vice Chair of the Super Neighborhood Alliance helping the Kashmere Gardens community residents address flooding and flood mitigation, food inequality, education, transportation, health and wellness.

He is a community scientist for MD Anderson Cancer Center and a member of their genetic testing and screening of cancer community advisory board for eligible applicants.

Downey is also a Director of Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council and a Radio host at KCOH AM 1230 THE SOURCE.

FOUNDER

Kenneth Williams is the current chair of the Community Flood Resilience Task Force and a founding director of the Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council. He serves as the Treasurer of NEHRC.

Kenneth advocates for building a strong community through equitable education, economic development, healthy food access and fair housing. Stronger communities make stronger cities and yield more productive citizens.

He serves as Chair of the Kashmere HS Feeder Pattern Community Council to provide collaboration between the schools and community in order to cultivate an environment for student success.

Kenneth is the Vice President and member of Super Neighborhood 48 – focused on community improvement by advocating and raising issues to various governmental representatives and agencies.

He participated as a community representative on the HISD District Advisory Committee – reviewing district issues with regard to legislative impacts, budgetary constraints, and compliance requirements for 8 years.

Kenneth worked on a team that set up a donation and distribution center at Trinity Gardens Church of Christ for Harvey victims in northeast Houston that led to the formation of NEHRC.

His guiding philosophy: All politics is local and everybody can contribute to the success of our community by simply doing small things that collectively make a big impact.