Meet Zima

Zima Creason is a parent, advocate, and businesswoman. She serves as the Executive Director of the California EDGE Coalition and was first elected as a San Juan Unified School District Governing Board Member in 2018. Zima is the only sitting board member with a child attending a district school.

At EDGE, she works to address the skilled workforce shortage, create pathways to the middle class, and to advance economic mobility for all Californians. She is committed to community empowerment and coalition building to establish and sustain thriving communities.

Zima has worked in the policy field since 2001 and much of her work has focused on equity as it relates to mental health policy as well as community outreach and engagement.

She is dedicated to supporting people to avoid crisis outcomes, social justice, and for all Americans to have access and opportunity to achieve the American Dream regardless of their zip code, culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health/mental health status, gender identification and/or who they love.