Yulie Padmore

Yulie Padmore is the founder and executive director of the Port Chicago Alliance and has led efforts to achieve justice and recognition for the Port Chicago Sailors since 2019. She helped secure the naming of Thurgood Marshall Regional Park — Home of the Port Chicago 50 in 2021 as co-founder of the East Bay Black Employee Collective.

Yulie’s leadership has been recognized by the U.S. Navy, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, and the Cities of Concord, Berkeley, and Oakland, and her work was further recognized through a private White House invitation. She also serves as co-chair of the Contra Costa County Bar Association’s Port Chicago Task Force and is an active member of civic organizations including the CA/HI State NAACP Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committee.