HACHR Staff
I graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a neuroscience concentration, where much of my academic interests focused on the varied ways drugs can and have worked to affect our minds and social culture. I moved to Humboldt in 2021 for a position working with the Yurok Tribe Wellness Coalition to provide overdose prevention education and resources through community naloxone trainings, where I first crossed paths with HACHR. After beginning to volunteer with HACHR in October of 2022, I joined the staff as an outreach worker in February 2023, became SSP coordinator in September 2023, and began my role as Executive Director in November 2023. To me, harm reduction is a historically, scientifically, and ethically informed practice that stands opposed to the commonplace and deadly stigmatization of drug use fostered by the moralizing, punitive, and carceral ideology of the war on drugs. Harm reduction cares for all those facing the negative and often deadly consequences of the war on drugs, and is committed to embodying a philosophy of autonomy, friendship, and love for those who face the harshest struggles and highest barriers as a result of these consequences. I am eternally grateful to have found an organization staffed by and in service to some of the most caring and beautiful people I have ever known.
Ethan Makulec, Executive Director
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Jamme was born and raised in East San Diego County before relocating to Humboldt County. She is a community advocate, activist and mother with years of experience, both formally and informally, in harm reduction. In her tenure at HACHR, Jamme has made it her priority to further deepen our ties with the communities we serve, acting as an essential link between HACHR's services and those whose struggles often go unseen by other institutions.
Jamme Holmes, Director of Outreach Services
I graduated from Humboldt State University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. I have a long-standing passion for housing justice, which has manifested itself in my activism and my years as an outreach worker, housing navigator, and case manager for the unhoused. I too have fallen into houselessness a number of times over my 14-year residency in Humboldt due to the County’s poorly managed housing crisis. I have now found a natural and comfortable home in the harm reduction movement, in part for its overlap with housing justice, but also for my deeply held belief that people deserve the freedom to do what they wish with their own bodies and not be deprived of their rights.