Meet the Board
“This is what solidarity looks like—showing up, staying, and giving.”
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The CICC Board is composed of individuals who have had their lives impacted by chemicals and refused to be silent. Each board member brings firsthand experience with environmental harm, long-term health impacts, and the systems that too often fail impacted communities. They are survivors, advocates, and fighters — people who have organized, testified, researched, and stood up for accountability, transparency, and justice. This lived expertise guides CICC’s mission and ensures that the voices of those most affected are at the center of every decision we make.
Jami R Wallace
President, Co-founder
East Palestine, OH
Jami is a wife and mother to Kyla Rose and a lifelong resident of East Palestine, Ohio. After the Feb. 3 train derailment, she evacuated with her family and has not returned home. When told by a railroad toxicologist that her home had a “potential pathway to exposure,” she spoke up, prompting further testing and realizing many others could be at risk.
She founded the Unity Council for the EP Train Derailment in March 2023 to advocate for affected residents. Jami later co-founded CICC after seeing that similar issues affect communities nationwide.
She previously organized for SEIU 1199 and served as an Executive Board Member for eight years. Jami has 15 years of experience at Cleveland State University and in HR director roles.
She holds a Juris Doctor, a Master of Public Administration, from Cleveland State University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Mount Union.
Christina Siceloff
VP, Co-founder
South Beaver, PA
Christina is a lifelong resident of Beaver County, PA, now living in South Beaver with her dad and son, Edward.
After the East Palestine train derailment, her greatest concern was her son’s safety. As illnesses emerged in her family and community following the vent and burn operation, she became determined to protect her child and stand with affected communities.
Before the derailment, Christina earned an associate degree from the Community College of Beaver County, trained toward a private pilot license, and completed EMT courses.
She is a former volunteer firefighter with multiple FEMA certifications. She enjoys candle making, ancestry research, and raising her son.
Tamara Freeze
Executive Board Member
East Palestine. OH
Tamara is a lifelong resident of East Palestine, Ohio. Five years ago she married her husband, Nelson, and moved into his family home — a house that has been in his family for more than 50 years and sits squarely within the one-mile impact zone of the train derailment.
Tamara not only lives in this zone; she works there as well. Since the derailment, she has experienced persistent sinus problems and severe joint pain. Her husband has developed breathing difficulties and breaks out in hives simply from mowing the grass.
Their daily lives are now defined by health challenges that began only after the disaster, and they continue to live with the uncertainty of ongoing exposure.
Brian Roeder
Executive Board Member
Moss Landing, CA
Brian holds a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown University, where he co-founded the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. He previously built and owned Virginia’s largest farm winery and served as president of his county chamber of commerce and vice president of the Virginia Wineries Association.
For the past eight months, Brian has volunteered as co-founder and spokesperson for Never Again Moss Landing, a grassroots organization working to prevent ongoing Battery Energy Storage facility fires linked to corporate negligence and inadequate oversight. He has been central to local and global outreach on the Moss Landing disaster, speaking widely with the press and affected communities.
Brian is married and the father of an 8-year-old son. After the Moss Landing disaster, he left his home and now lives with his family on the Monterey Peninsula.
Elizabeth Frost
Executive Board Member
MAHA, OH
Elizabeth is a human health advocate and grassroots strategist based in the Ohio River Valley region of Appalachia, dubbed the epicenter of the opioid epidemic.
As an organizational leader, Elizabeth combines her wide-ranging background in business management, national political campaigns, and NGO leadership to apply creative grassroots strategies to meet the unique needs of human health.
In addition to CICC, Elizabeth is the Executive Director of MAHA Ohio and a co-founder of Independent Force consulting.
Cheryl Jones- Davidson
Executive Board Member
Moss Landing, CA
Cheryl is a community advocate with Never Again Moss Landing, a fast-response, grassroots volunteer group formed after the January 16, 2025 Vistra Battery Energy Storage System fire. Motivated by the widespread environmental and health concerns
Following the disaster, Cheryl has dedicated herself to helping residents access clear information, resources, and a stronger community voice.
Her work centers on organizing local volunteers, supporting impacted families, and advancing the group’s core principles of transparency, independence, environmental stewardship, and community-first action.
Cheryl believes that what happened in Moss Landing must never happen again, and she is committed to promoting informed, compassionate, and effective response efforts to protect the region’s air, water, land, and people.
Arlene Bankston
Executive Board Member
Roseland, LA
When black rain from a nearby chemical plant fire fell on Arlene’s family farm, everything changed. The farm was where her children played and their food was grown, and she expected clear guidance after so many chemical disasters nationwide. Instead, she found confusing, inadequate, and sometimes misleading responses from agencies.
Determined to protect her family and community, Arlene searched for trustworthy information and connected with others nationwide facing similar struggles. Their shared knowledge and support helped her through the hardest moments.
Arlene was honored to join the CICC board as a way to give back for the generosity and solidarity shown to her family.
Rachna Dhingra
Executive Board Member
Bhopal, India
Rachna is a social and environmental activist who works in Bhopal with the survivors of the world’s worst industrial and corporate massacre.
She works with survivors of the 84 Union Carbide’s
Bhopal Disaster on the issue of medical care, research, social support, economic needs, assessment and clean up of toxic waste, legal claims for appropriate compensation and corporate accountability of Union Carbide & Dow Chemical.
She works with a group
called Bhopal Group for Information and Action and also with
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. In 2003 she quit her job
in Michigan, US and moved to Bhopal to work with those exposed to poisons of Union Carbide and Dow Chemical.
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