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Tony Brown is the CEO of Heart of Los Angeles, an organization that helps young people overcome barriers through exceptional, free, integrated programs and personalized guidance in a trusted, nurturing environment. Tony’s inquiry seeks to explore how we can make the case for investment in the youth of Los Angeles.
Kay Buck is a human rights activist and a leader in the global anti-human-trafficking movement. She is currently serving as the CEO of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), where she leads a team of social justice advocates to end human trafficking through education, advocacy, and the empowerment of survivors. Kay’s inquiry asks: [...]
Artist, organizer, educator, author, and public speaker, Patrisse Cullors is a Los Angeles native and Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, Founder and Chair of Dignity and Power Now, Founder of Reform LA Jails, and Faculty Director of the Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA Program at Prescott College. Patrisse directs and produces [...]
Skye Patrick serves as Library Director of LA County Library, one of the largest public library systems in the nation, serving one of the most diverse populations where the entire range of human experience, or close to it, can be found among Los Angeles County’s 10 million inhabitants. Like most large urban areas, the County [...]
Chris Ko is the former Managing Director for Homelessness & Strategic Initiatives at the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, an organization that brings individuals and institutions together to tackle LA’s biggest challenges. He explored how everyday Angelenos can be more meaningfully involved in solving the region’s homelessness crisis. In particular, Chris is interested in [...]
Aurea Montes-Rodriguez is the former Executive Vice President of Community Coalition, an organization which she served for more than 20 years. Born in Mexico and raised in South Los Angeles, she developed a passion for building African American and Latino leadership, capacity, and strategies that are inclusive and effective toward community transformation. Her inquiry explored [...]
Mark Wilson is the President, CEO, and Co-Founder of the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, a youth-centered, neighborhood-based organization that seeks to address the needs of low-income, working-class residents and small businesses in South Los Angeles. His inquiry focuses on how to improve the lives of youth who age out of Los Angeles County’s foster [...]
Rosten Woo is an artist and designer whose work connects people to place and builds community agency. He works in long-term collaboration with community-based organizations, advocacy groups, and governments to develop projects that help people situate themselves in complex systems and make group decisions. His inquiry considers how culture creates the groundwork for social cohesion [...]
Denny Zane is the Founder and former Executive Director of Move LA, a housing and transit activist, and a former mayor of Santa Monica. He investigated a “grand boulevards” strategy to promote transit-oriented, mixed-use multifamily housing along currently underutilized boulevards designated as Bus Rapid Transit corridors. He believes that a transit investment can create an [...]
Molly Rysman is the former Housing and Homelessness Deputy for Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl. She noted that although more money than ever was going into homelessness and more housing was being built, the number of people on the street remained dismayingly high. Her hypothesis was that homelessness can’t be solved in vacuum, and [...]
