Zeke Spier

Zeke Spier is the Executive Director at Social Justice Fund, where he has been working for eight years. Over that time, he has engaged hundreds of people as donors and helped to move millions of dollars to grassroots organizing in the Northwest. He is currently working to help other social justice foundations replicate Social Justice Fund’s Giving Project model. Zeke has experience both as a manager in the corporate sector and as a community organizer, working on issues from the just reconstruction of New Orleans to criminal justice issues in Philadelphia. Nationally, he sits on the board of Resource Generation in addition to Political Research Associates. In Seattle, he serves on the steering committee of Rainier Valley Corps, a new project to build the capacity of refugee and immigrant community-based organizations. Zeke was born in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys reminiscing about his cross-country bicycle trip on his 6-mile ride to work.