Catalina Garzón-Galvis, Principal Practitioner
Catalina brings over twenty years of experience with facilitating collaborative planning, curriculum development, media arts and participatory action research projects for environmental and climate justice with community-based organizations and coalitions. Her past collaborative planning projects include conducting a social vulnerability assessment of local climate change impacts to create a community climate adaptation and resilience plan with Oakland Climate Action Coalition members and a health impact assessment of selected strategies in the Alameda County Goods Movement Plan with the Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative. Her previous media arts projects include developing a foto-novela on gentrification and the school-to-prison pipeline with youth leaders from Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice and coordinating a digital storytelling project with Indigenous and women farmworker leaders on heat-related illness and wildfire smoke with Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project, Lideres Campesinas, Public Health Institute and StoryCenter. Catalina has a BA in Environmental Sciences and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley.
Contact: garzcat@gmail.com
Jacy Bowles, Participatory Action Researcher
Jacy (Diné/Xicana) brings nearly ten years of experience with arts-based storytelling, program planning and outreach for social justice and philanthropy-based organizations. Most recently, Jacy worked to indigenize the climate justice storytelling curriculum at Climate Advocates Voces Unidas (CAVU) and facilitated curriculum sessions with high school students in Santa Fe NM as a Fellow with the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals. With The Obsidian Collective, she led community-based participatory research to understand the individual and collective decolonizing journeys of frontline activists and co-led diverse community events including powwows, art shows and film screenings. She also previously worked with Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland where she conducted know-your-rights presentations and coordinated post-release accompaniment support for immigrant detainees and asylum seekers. Jacy has a BA in Sociology from San Francisco State University and an MA in Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco-psychologies from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Contact: jbowles@curyj.org