Lucas Zucker
Co-Executive Director

Lucas Zucker is Co-Executive Director at CAUSE.  He was raised in Oakland and Ventura, CA and graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy. First volunteering for CAUSE at 13 years old, Lucas joined the CAUSE staff in 2012 as a youth organizer and researcher, and went on to serve as the organization's Policy Director. At CAUSE he has worked on community organizing campaigns and policy advocacy around voting rights, healthy food access, public transit, environmental justice, education equity, immigrants’ rights, housing affordability, and workers' rights. Lucas was the lead staff member on CAUSE's efforts to stop the Puente power plant from being built in Oxnard, respond to the Thomas Fire disaster, and create the Ventura County Farmworker Resource Program. Lucas serves on the board of Powerswitch Action, California Calls, the Community Advisory Committee for Clean Power Alliance, and the Planning Commission of the City of Ventura.