Britnee N. Timberlake (born May 14, 1986) is an American Democratic Party elected official, community advocate, nonprofit executive, and humanitarian.
The mission is to strengthen communities by providing permanently affordable housing and financial empowerment opportunities for working families and individuals throughout Essex County.
To date, the organization has raised over $2,000,000 in housing subsidies, created community development partnerships, helped to extend the affordability deed restrictions for over 50 homes in Montclair, and participated in the rehab and creation of 13 traditional CLT units.
During her tenure as Freeholder President, Timberlake authored an affirmative action[5] law that established a county government bid set-aside and joint venture program to increase economic opportunity for women-owned, minority-owned, and veteran-owned businesses.
[10] On January 29, Timberlake, who had been the only African American woman in the state serving as freeholder director, was sworn in to replace Oliver, a fellow resident of East Orange who had been the first African American woman to serve as speaker of the General Assembly and the first to be elected to a position covering the entire state.
[1][11] During her tenure,[12] in addition to being a prime author of the $15 minimum wage bill which became law in 2019, Timberlake introduced the Fair Work Week Act.
In addition to supporting legislation to regulate fire arm purchases, in 2018, she called for a prohibition on the sale of certain toy guns and imitation firearms.
The bill was created in response to the death of Tamir Rice, an Ohio resident killed during an interaction with a police officer while holding an imitation firearm.
The bill [19] requires the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to evaluate, when reviewing certain permit applications, the environmental and public health stressors on overburdened communities of certain facilities such as landfills, waste incinerators, sewage plants and others that are a "major source" of air pollution as defined in the federal Clean Air Act.
There she is responsible for designing socially conscious banking products to help close the racial wealth gap.
[31] A resident of East Orange, New Jersey, she is married to Dimitri Charles, a Newark fireman and small business owner.