Born in Mexico City, Lucero Vargas migrated to Los Angeles, CA at the age of 11. She moved to Santa Rosa, CA five years ago and works as a Professional Tattoo Artist. Inspired by Mexican and Native American Culture, she employed a native folk art style to explore questions of identity, post-colonialism, gender, and race in American society. Art transformed her life and has helped her heal her trauma. She hopes to use the same process to help young people. Vargas strongly believes art is one of the best activities for anyone to heal the body, mind and spirit.

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Originally from Armenia, Rima Makaryan is an 18 year old artist and activist who is the founder of The Monarch Project, a youth based organization centered around touching hearts and minds through public art to change and reclaim the immigrant narrative. Her work is inspired by her own life as a young immigrant and how those personal experiences fit into the larger political and social conversation locally, nationally, and beyond. Her art aims to empower all traditionally marginalized groups, to capture their beauty and strength and share it with the rest of the world. Rima is currently a freshman at Stanford University and is studying architectural and sustainable design.

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Martin Zuniga was born in Mexico in 1967, the first of 11 siblings. His family moved to the U.S. in 1978, to Fresno. His parents worked in the fields, and as soon as he was old enough, he did, too. Though he was still learning the new language, he also translated the English-speaking world for his parents. His school counselors, not knowing how to deal with a dyslexic and artistic child in the small farming community of Caruthers, encouraged him to join the armed forces. Life was looking preordained and narrow. But he had a talent for art. After high school, he worked construction, learning skills that he would later apply to his art.

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Reuben Crow Feather is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. The U.S. government gave his tribe the name Sioux, however they refer themselves as the Lakota Oyate. Akicita Tokaheya (First Warrior) is the Lakota name that he was honored with by his elders. The name First Warrior means so much to him and is a big name to fill. Their war today is to revitalize spirituality amongst the masses for the greater good of all of mankind. He believes we can do this through living a healthy, education-minded, drug-free lifestyle. Giving our youth a healthy model to strive for, he has been working in bringing spiritual awareness along with addiction prevention using nonwestern modalities. As a World Champion Traditional Dancer and Singer, he’s utilized his notoriety as a platform to educate our youth where ever and whenever. He has had the honor to perform and speak to many youth organizations, schools and Universities. Building bridges and breaking stereotypes is always one of his goals in order to educate our non-indigenous relatives to bring unity to the Human Race.

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Realizo historias con imágenes. Junto a varios amigos fundamos Independencia Grita Producciones, una empresa audiovisual y sello disquero colombiana que trabaja desde lo local pensando lo global. Realizamos proyectos audiovisuales documentales e institucionales para distintas organizaciones gubernamentales y ong's. Ahora radicado en el area norte de la bahia de San Francisco California, mi objetivo es traer el espíritu de Independencia Grita a esta área.

Algunos projectos realizados son:

Camarógrafo y Director de fotografía en el documental ganador de un estímulo para el desarrollo cinematográfico, Defensora Pública, dirigido por Sandra Molano. Realizador notas documentales para el programa infantil Chinkanarama. Realizador audiovisual en diferentes proyectos y camarógrafo-editor para la agencia de noticias de la universidad Nacional de Colombia (Unimedios). Realizador de algunas notas documentales del programa DC Contigo de Univisión Washington, DC.

Comunicador social, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia con especialidad en medios audiovisuales.

Storytelling with images is my passion. Together with several friends founded Independencia Grita Producciones, a colombian audiovisual company and record label. We specialize in audiovisual projects, documentaries and institutional videos for government institutions and non-profit organizations. Right now, I am based in the north SF bay area, and my goal is to bring the spirit of Independencia Grita to Northern California.

Examples of projects produced:

Cameraman and photographer for the award-winning documentary Public Defender directed by Sandra Molano. Producer of documentary clips for the children's TV show Chinkanarama. Camaraman and editor for the news agency, Unimedios, the audiovisual media unit of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Producer of some documentary clips for the program DC Contigo, Univision Washington, DC.

Graduated from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia in Social Communication with specialization in audiovisual media. https://betoalvarezperez.wixsite.com

Brian was born in the Philippines but he never learned Tagalog. Instead his parents moved to America and put him in Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva where he learned Hebrew. Then he played lots of baseball including being captain of his college baseball team at Vassar College. He wasn't genetically determined to go pro so instead he went to medical school in Newark, NJ and spent his weekends hopping on a train from Hoboken to the West Village in NYC to sing with his buddies in a piano bar called Roses Turn where everybody knew his name and sang along. Then he moved to Springfield, MA, where the Simpsons are from, to live with his now wife of 12 years, Ellen Green. Brian learned Pediatrics from Puerto Rican patients in Springfield, which explains why he leaves off the last syllable of every word he says in Spanish, and then moved to Santa Rosa in 2009 to work at Southwest Community Health Center while his wife trained to be a family doctor with Dra. Fish. Brian taught them Pediatrics and still teaches family doctors in training every Friday afternoon at the Vista Family Health Center to compliment his primary care Pediatrics practice at Sutter. Brian is passionate about vaccine advocacy, teaching, coaching, and his two kids Sal (7) and Simon (4) and goes to great lengths to ensure that everyone around him knows that vaccines are safe and effective. He even sings about it and video records himself talking to a puppet elephant on his youtube channel to make sure everyone gets their coronavirus vaccines so we can all begin the process of healing after 2020. Brian's superpower is caring about humans, reading their feelings, and making them feel good about themselves.

Dr. Jenny is a full-spectrum Family Medicine physician that does everything from pregnancy care to hospice. She graduated from the Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program where she is now core faculty. Teaching new physicians that have chosen to use Medicine as a vehicle for change helps amplify and bring meaning to her life's work. She is dedicated to Community Health and works at the Vista clinic in Santa Rosa. As a physician committed to Equity, Anti-Oppression, and access to Health for all, she is a co-founder HPEACE, a local health professional activism group.

She has worked in community health for over 10 years. Family Medicine is a vehicle through which she follows her diverse passions including humanism in medicine, primary care/public health intersection, and serving the underserved clinically and through community-based activism. She is a co-founder of the local health professional activism group, HPEACE.

Gricelda Correa Martinez was born in Michoacán Mexico and migrated to the United States along with her parents at the age of 3 in search of a better future. Gricelda was raised in Santa Rosa, California and has fallen in love with the diverse and growing community. At an early age Gricelda identified her passion for community health, social justice, and advocating for folks like herself. She has over 10 years of experience in health education, in which she adapted and delivered curricula to be linguistically and culturally responsive of the communities she works in. She received an AA as a Community Health Worker and Health education and a BA in Liberal Studies with a minor in Women’s Health.

Currently Gricelda is the Communications and Community Engagement Manager at Santa Rosa Community Health in which her professional and personal experiences help develop equity focused campaigns. Gricelda continues to devote her time to coming back to community to share her skillset and continues to advocate for our community on all levels to have representation and be heard. Gricelda hopes to help pave the path for the next generation of BIPOC women and other impacted member so they don’t face the struggles she has faced, particularly her daughter Sophia.