Toxic Free NC Staff
Alexis Luckey
Executive Director
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Phoebe Gooding
Program & Organizing Director
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Ana Flores Dolbow
Health &
Justice Organizer
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Crystal Cavalier-Keck
Policy Director
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Meet Our Staff
Alexis Luckey – Executive Director
Alexis joins Toxic Free NC as Executive Director after five years at Eastern Carolina Organics, working in partnership with organic farmers committed to building a more sustainable food system that is free from toxic pesticides and pollutants. As COO of ECO, she led the company’s efforts to join a national movement of Certified B Corporation businesses that prioritize people and planet above profit. She has worked to promote organic agriculture and strengthen community access to safe and healthy food through local and national non-profits and as an environmental project manager and educational facilitator for the U.S. Peace Corps in Malawi. Alexis has undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Virginia. She is committed to advocating for a precautionary approach to regulation of chemicals in our fragile ecosystem and advancing environmental health and justice in North Carolina.
Phoebe Gooding – Program and Organizing Director
Phoebe Gooding is the Program and Organizing Director for Toxic Free NC, and leads the Just and Sustainable Agriculture program. She has a Master of Science in Environmental Studies, but her love for nature started in her youth. Over the past couple of years, Phoebe has been working to support Environmental Justice communities in their fight against the toxic chemicals that plague them, whether from polluting facilities or inequitable food systems. In this holistic work towards justice she has brought together her love for the Earth and her love for the people. Phoebe also has a small farm, Hawk’s Nest Healing Gardens, in Durham, NC where she is growing organic veggies and herbs “to heal the soil, our bodies, and our communities.” As a biracial, Black woman and mother of two, she holds racial justice and equity at the forefront of all that she does for our collective liberation now and for future generations.
Ana Flores Dolbow – Health & Justice Organizer
Ana Flores joins Toxic Free NC as the part-time Health and Justice Organizer following seven years of advocacy in the farmworker rights movement. Previously, she worked with NC Field as Program Assistant and was a member of the youth group, Poder Juvenil Campesino, for many years. As a member of PJC, she participated in various studies with Human Rights Watch and lobbied in DC to better the working conditions of farmworker youth and their families. She received an associates degree from Coastal Carolina Community College and plans on continuing her education. Outside of work, she serves the military families of Fort Bragg by volunteering with various organizations.
Whitney Williams-Black – Environmental Health Program Manager, Toxic Free Families
Whitney “Whit” Williams-Black (she/they) joins the team as Environmental Health Program Manager leading the Toxic Free Families Program. As a Hollins University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Gender & Women’s Studies with a minor in Social Justice, Whit has studied feminist thought, reproductive health, rights and justice, and community organizing since 2015, and brings experience in organizing, facilitation, curriculum designing, and education. Trained as a full-spectrum doula with Ancient Song Doula Services, Whit is Founder-Doula of Want to Be Well Doula Services, Owner of Viola’s Herb Garden Apothecary & Botanica, and Co-Director of a budding doula cooperative serving North Carolina’s rural counties and those without adequate healthcare access. As Toxic Free Families Program Manager, they are eager to facilitate impactful community programming and a paradigm expansion that empowers caregivers and families to advocate for safer policies and new systems that manifest our toxic-free future.
Crystal Cavalier-Keck – Policy Director
Crystal Cavalier-Keck is the co-founder of 7 Directions of Service with her husband, an indigenous-owned cultural and heritage preservation firm whose purpose is to contribute to the social and environmental competence of our clients and partners. She is a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in Burlington, NC. She is a board member of the Haw River Assembly, the Women’s Resource Center in Alamance County, and Benevolence Farm. Crystal was a member of the fall cohort of the Sierra Club’s Gender Equity and Environment Program and Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) Accelerator for Grassroots Women Environmental Leaders in 2020, and she completed her Doctorate in Organizational Leadership at the University of Dayton in August 2022. She has been a voice for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, and on issues including gas and oil pipelines in frontline communities; burden, exposure, risk, and health disparities among American Indians in environmental justice communities; and inequities in our food system, which continue to disproportionately burden communities of color. Dismantling these inequities is imperative to achieve a sustainable food system and ultimately food justice. In her free time, Crystal and Jason run an online and in person Trading Post featuring craft work of her family, as well as indigenous teas, tinctures, soaps and more that mostly come directly from her garden.