1. Right to Health Panel
Pete White, Co-Director of LACAN (Los Angeles Community Action Network)
Becky Dennison, Co-Director of LACAN
Elliot Petty, SEIU-UHW (Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West)
Paulina Gonzalez, Director of SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy)
Nancy Ibrahim, Director of Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Jim Mangia, Director of St. John’s Well Child and Family Center
2. Sandra de la Loza
Sandra de la Loza has almost 20 years of experience as a practicing artist and community organizer, often merging the two. From 1992-1994, Sandra was a board member of a grassroots community arts organization, the Aztlan Cultural Arts Foundation in Lincoln Heights. From 2000-2004, Sandra helped co-found Arts and Action, formed during the protests at the Democratic National Convention, an artist and activist collective that focused on helping community based struggles utilize art in their organizing efforts. Within my own artwork, under the name of the Pocho Research Society, Sandra has collaborated with others to make invisible histories in Los Angeles visible through public interventions and installations. Sandra has also taught courses in Chicana/o Studies and Public Art at Cal State Northridge, Cal State LA, and Otis College of Art and Design.
Sandra’s Presentation
3. Raquel Gutiérrez
Raquel Gutiérrez is a community-based performance writer, playwrighter, community organizer and cultural activist. Gutiérrez is one of the co-founding members of the performance ensemble, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan (BdP), a community-based and activist-minded group aimed at creating a visual vernacular around queer Latinidad in Los Angeles. Raquel’s earned her BA in Journalism and Central American Studies from the California State University at Northridge and her MA in Performance Studies from New York University. She has performed nationally as a performance and literary artist, been a community documentarian for the last 15 years, published in journals and anthologies, served on a number of grant panels and is currently the Manager of Community Partnerships and a member of the Ensemble at Cornerstone Theater Company, the leading purveyor of community-based theater in the United States.
Raquel’s Presentation
4. Rosten Woo
Rosten Woo is a designer, writer, and educator living in Los Angeles. He is co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a New York Based non-profit organization dedicated to using art and design to foster civic participation. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Netherlands Architectural Institute, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and various piers, public housing developments, tugboats, shopping malls, and parks in New York City. He has written on design, politics, and music for such publications as the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, City Limits, and Metropolis Magazine. His first book, “Street Value,” was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010.
In New York, he was an adjunct professor at Parsons, the New School for Design and developed curricula for public high schools throughout the city. He has lectured at Brown University, California College of the Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago University, MIT, and Princeton University, and worked as a researcher and policy analyst for non-profit organizations like Common Ground Community, Place Matters, and the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center. He has served on the boards of NYC non-profits Place in History and the Groundswell Community Mural Project. He received his BA in Government from Cornell University.
“We have no art (we do everything as well as we can)” was the slogan of the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College. The quote comes from Sister Corita, quoting Marshall McLuhan, quoting a Balinese proverb.
Rosten’s Presentation
Rx for Justice 