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Quetzal Flores, Program Manager <br />Quetzal Flores has extensive experience as a community organizer, <br />cultural worker, and accomplished artist. As the son of labor union <br />organizers, Flores Inherited an undying accountability to community <br />struggles. From land straggles with South Central farmers, <br />immigration reform, supermarket workers union strike, and the <br />Indigenous Zapatista struggle, to the everyday community <br />struggles In East Los Angeles, he has been active with music In hand. Since 1993, has been the musical <br />director for the East Los Angeles -based rock group Quetzal, whose fifth album, Imaglnerles, was <br />released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2012. As a program manager at ACTA, Flores has managed <br />ACTA's "Activating Our Cultural Treasures" project in Santa Ana, Boyle Heights, and the Eastern <br />Coachella in partnership with the Building Healthy Communities Initiative of the California Endowment. <br />Furthermore, Quetzal has been working closely with cultural workers and organizers In Santa Ana to <br />coordinate numerous transnatlonal and local traditional music efforts. <br />Citlalll Ch6vez, Project Coordinator <br />Cltlalll Chavez is a project coordinator for The Alliance for California <br />Traditional Arts, working on ACTA's Activating Cultural Assets connected to <br />the Building Healthy Community Places initiative in collaboration with the <br />California Endowment. As a project coordinator, among other duties, she is <br />helping document local cultural treasures, organizing local task force <br />meetings, coordinating local cultural events, and is overseeing project efforts <br />in two California regions. She joined ACTA as an experienced Immigrant <br />rights activist and community and labor organizer. Through her community Involvement, Citlalli <br />discovered El Centro Cultural de Mexico located in Santa Ana, California. She considers this discovery <br />one of the most formative and transformational experiences in her young adult life. At El Centro, Citlaili <br />met and was inspired by numerous cultural and social activists that demonstrated Importance of <br />creative and cultural expression for community and social empowerment. Citlalli Is originally from <br />Jalisco, Mexico, and migrated to the United States at the age of five In 1992. Citlalli received her <br />academic training in Latin American Studies and Political Science at California State University Fullerton <br />(B.A.) and at the University of California Los Angeles (M.A.). <br />Tne Cul Ural Planning Croup <br />25B -33 <br />26 <br />