


Long Beach Community Table
Growing Sustainable Community with Compassion and Dignity
562-548-0774 LBCommunityTable@gmail.com
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3311 E 59th St Long Beach, CA 90805



Our Board & Key Staff Members
KRISTEN COX
Executive Director
Kristen Cox has been a lifelong activist, with a masters in Clinical Psychology, and has led many large and successful volunteer organizations. Her interest
in social justice has had her traveling most of the country, trying to help people in difficult predicaments, like survivors of two separate hurricanes, and indigenous people fighting oil pipelines. Her concern for the community has always been apparent in her actions, whether on the frontline or behind the scenes. Through her activism, she determined that alternative systems of supporting the community, especially in disadvantaged demographics, were becoming necessary. In 2017, she began to work toward creating a worker's cooperative that would benefit any and all in need and that has become Long Beach Community Table. She is grateful to have connected with so many incredible people, which have created a very successful team that truly cares about the dignity and sustainability of the community.
SANDRA HILL
Treasurer
Sandra Hill is the Treasurer for Long Beach Community Table. She owns, and operates her own company, Keep Track Business & Financial Services.
We, at LBCT, are privileged to have Sandra on our team. She has provided invaluable resources and expertise, allowing us to simplify our back-office paperwork and organization structure, and to have a better understanding of our finances through virtual bookkeeping using QuickBooks Online. She is a member of the Kiwanis-Long Beach and Treasurer of Love Beyond Limits, a non-profit organization that provides exceptional enrichment and leadership development opportunities for youth. She also founded her own non-profit: Keep Track Global Community Development Corporation. This Non-Profit serves with community program services and eventually will provide affordable housing.
PAM CHOTISWATDI
Board President
Pam Chotiswatdi, MPH, is a Long Beach-based Community Educator, Death Doula, and advocate with over two decades of experience in public
health, cannabis education, and end-of-life care. She is the co-founder of the Peer Education Community Center (PECC), where she leads programs grounded in harm reduction, life skills, peer support, and community-based education—especially for marginalized populations.
Pam serves on the Board of Long Beach Community Table and is a City of Long Beach Commissioner on the Homeless Services Advisory Committee. With 22+ years in Long Beach, her work is rooted in local care, systemic change, and creating accessible, alternative paths for healing and support.
MARIA SHAFER
Secretary
Originally from Cuba, Maria has called Long Beach, California, home for most of her life. Raised by a strong single mother, she values hard work,
community, and compassion. She graduated from Cal State University Dominguez Hills with a degree in Small Business Administration, also as a single mother with two sons. Now retired, Maria manages her small business and has the time to volunteer for Long Beach Community Table—an organization that works hard, values community, and practices compassion. Helping to coordinate community events such as monthly crop swaps, garden-building teams and classes, and distribution of fresh food to those in need on behalf of LBCT has been the perfect outlet for Maria.