BECCA SCHULMAN HAVEMEYER

FOUNDING PARTNER/BOARD CHAIR

Becca runs a residential real estate development firm, Beach Plum Properties, where her goal is to honor and enhance the communities in which she works. She specializes in historic homes and loves to find the beauty and potential in properties and architectural pieces that are overlooked. Becca has a background in non-profit management in the early childhood space. She also led a consumer products company that developed the first of its kind mobile app for navigating city streets and public transit on wheels, geared towards individuals in wheelchairs and parents and caregivers pushing strollers, in partnership with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.  

As a third grade student in the Cambridge, MA, public schools, Becca remembers watching the PBS Eyes on The Prize series with her classmates and being riveted by the images of children her age protesting as part of the Birmingham Children's Crusade. It began a lifelong interest in Civil Rights history and activism and a commitment to working to help make the world a more equitable place. She studied the unsung women of the Civil Rights movement, such as Dorothy Height, Jo Ann Robinson and Claudette Colvin, as a high school senior project, and learned how women were the backbone of this and other social justice movements. It was her great thrill to meet JoAnne Bland and Kimberly Smitherman in Selma in January 2020 and begin working alongside them to support their vision for Foot Soldiers Park. She proudly serves as board chair of the organization and works on the partnerships and fundraising team.