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Leadership Rooted in Community- Join Our Board
We are currently under construction and actively seeking to expand our leadership. We will be adding new board members soon to ensure our governing body continues to reflect the diverse local BIPOC community and remains deeply aligned with our collaborative, community-based decision-making process. If you are interested in joining our board team, contributing to our mission, and working together to advance individual and collective imagination through a lens of social justice, please consider emailing us.
Board of Directors
Board President
Samuel Duarte
Samuel H. Duarte is a co-founder of the organization and currently serves as President of the Board for Corazón del Pueblo. He is the Director of the non-profit, the Little House by the Park in Guadalupe. Projects he has spearheaded include the yearly Guadalupe Reading Festival, the Guadalupe Mural Project, 100,000 Poets for Change Santa Maria, and the community anthology, Small Town, Big Dreams. He has over twenty years experience working in immigrant communities as a GED and ESL instructor and as an advocate for language access, affordable housing, and immigrant rights. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas El Paso and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from California State University, Fresno.
Board Member
Robert Gibson
Robert firmly believes in the transformative power of the arts; to inspire and create opportunities for all members of our community to express their unique creativity. Supporting opportunities for community members to engage with the arts for over 40 years, he has learned the important role the arts play in raising culture awareness, representation, diversity, and inclusivity. Robert is committed to championing exposure and engagement with the arts for all.