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Rene Quinonez, Executive Director
Jose Luis Pavon, Program Director
Nancy Hernandez, Kalpuli Youth Coordinator / Everything
Florencia "Tragik" Garcia, In-House Designer (Native Graphix) / Case Manager
Mike "Trigger" Ramos, Artist
Gustavo Lopez, Education Coordinator
David Sanchez, Master Screen Printer, Native Graphix
Mauricio Quijada, Screen Printer, Native Graphix
Rene Quinonez is HOMEYs director a former gang member and drug dealer, he has risen to challenge of creating a better world for his community. Rene was born and raised in San Franciscos mission district, the younger child of a single parent mother Rene has experienced many of the same struggles and challenges the young people HOMEY works with have poverty, ignorance, lack of resources and low moral and emotional support. Today a father of two young boys he works to bring resources to San Francisco resourced deprived youth.
Jose Luis Pavon Villasenor is a Xicano born in Mexico and raised in the Mission District of San Francisco by a single mother. He has worked in non-profit organizations since the age of 12 and started organizing his freshman year at Mission High School. Participating with a range of different organizations over the last 10 years Jose Luis has been involved in developing a regional grass roots Xicana student network called, Tojil, which has focused its efforts on education reform. He has also done violence prevention, immigrants' rights, juvenile justice reform, police accountability, youth policy, and supported labor organizing. Besides being a youth worker Jose Luis has also done construction and restaurant work. By working with different age groups and ethnic backgrounds through direct service or political organizing, Jose Luis has become skilled in the process of developing youth leadership. Jose Luis has worked for Youth Making A Change (YMAC) for four years training, advising and supporting youth organizers in their campaigns to give youth of San Francisco a voice. He also is a proud father.
Nancy Hernandez is a 25 year old community organizer who has been a part of HOMEY since 1999. She began working as a youth mentor and became the Education and Outreach coordinator. She has since attended City College of San Francisco and attained a B.A. in Raza Studies from San Francisco State University. She is currently volunteering at HOMEY to coordinate curriculum for the HOMEYs Skoolin HOMEYs workshop series. She feels a strong commitment to developing leadership skills and cultural awareness in gang involved and at risk youth
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Florencia came to the United States with her parents seeking an american dream, but through her community involvement, socialist upbringing, experience with the juvenile/prison & american educational system she came to realize that whatever affect she leaves on the world, she wants it to be a positive one.
Aside from her involvement with HOMEY & Native Graphix, Florencia is a professional Photographer, Musician, Graphic/Clothing Designer & an Activist. To check out more work please visit www.Myspace.com/LadyTragik or www.LadyTragik.com.
Mike has been a long time HOMEY and is now planning on transitioning with the help of our Micro-Enterprise program by opening up his own Tattoo Shop in San Francisco. For custom airbrushing & tattooing please
contact him at triggerhappytats@gmail.com
Gustavo Lopez is the Education Coordinator for HOMEY and is currently pursuing a major in both Political Science and Raza Studies at SF State University. He has been an active organizer in the Bay Area
youth movement since the age of 14. Born in San Francisco and raised in South San Francisco in a single parent low income household has given him the passion to address poverty and violence. He currently
runs the Homies Skoolin Homies Program inside John O' Connell High School, Mission High School, and Downtown High School and is currently involved in campaigns to address the root causes of violence.
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