Dana Ginn Paredes

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For over 18 years, Dana has played a strategic role in positioning organizations for growth and success. Her experience on management teams coupled with on-the-ground campaign/electoral organizing, training, and technical assistance has led her to develop a deep understanding of what it takes to cultivate dynamic organizations.

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Tyler Okeke

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Tyler Okeke is a budding organizer and learner. Born and raised in Los Angeles, but rooted in his Igbo identity, Tyler is committed to toppling systemic challenges through robust community organizing, precise legislative advocacy, and radical empathy.

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Christian Arana

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Christian strongly believes in the promise of America, and that begins first with California’s estimated 15 million Latinos. As the Vice President of Policy at LCF, Christian leads the foundation’s efforts to advance policy solutions that will improve the lives and political power of California’s Latinos.

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Randy Villegas

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Randy Villegas is a Ph.D. Candidate in Politics, with a designated emphasis in Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently a faculty member at College of the Sequoias, teaching in the Political Science department. A Kern County native, Villegasearned his B.A. in Political Science at CSU Bakersfield in 2017, and his Associates Degree in Political Science from Bakersfield College in 2015.

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Ashley K. Thomas

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Ashley is a researcher, facilitator, and coach standing with communities towards healing, liberation, and decolonization. She currently serves as a Program Manager at USC Equity Research Institute.

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Saa'un Bell

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Saa’un Bell is the daughter of a Black Alabama Southerner John Fitzgerald Bell and Pilipina-Visayan immigrant Nenita Deladia. Her organizing, strategy, and writing are deeply rooted in Eastside Long Beach, her Working Class, Black Southern, and rural Filipino Immigrant roots.

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Alicia Olivarez

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Alicia is a daughter, sister, Xicana and organizer in Fresno, CA. Her early experiences growing up poor in a small farm working town have served as the main motivation for her to create leadership pathways and opportunities for young people to step into their power across the Central Valley.

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Jada Johnson

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Jada is organizer, strategist, creative, and lover of Black liberation with over 10 years of movement work experience. As a Compton native with “down South” ancestral roots, she works relentlessly to keep the spirit of those who rebelled before her alive.

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Albert Tobias

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Albert was born and raised in Eastside, San Jose, the son of Mexican and Salvadorian immigrants. He first stepped into organizing as a high school student with Californians for Justice after seeing the impacts of the Great Recession on his community and the education system.

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