Truly reflecting a broad regional and community-wide effort, the Regional Equity Study could not have been carried out without a visionary Project Steering Committee of academic and community leaders and our Community Advisory Committee made up of representatives of 21 university, philanthropic institutions from Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
Steering Committee
Maria Charles, UCSB Broom Center for Demography and Department of Sociology
Jon Clark, James Bower Foundation
Diane Fujino, UCSB Department of Asian American Studies
Amy Gonzales, UCSB Department of Communication
Charles R. Hale, UCSB Division of Social Sciences
LeeAnne McNulty, Allan Hancock College
Alice O’Connor, UCSB Blum Center and Department of HIstory
David Pellow, UCSB Environmental Studies Program
Marcos Vargas, The Fund for Santa Barbara
Lucas Zucker, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)
Advisory Committee
Emily Allen, Northern Santa Barbara County United Way
Claudia Armann,
McCune Foundation
Katy Bazylewicz,
Cottage Health
Rick Cole,
The Fund for Santa Barbara
Jamshid Damooei, Cal Lutheran University Center for Economics and Social Issues
Rubayi Estes,
Santa Barbara Foundation
Geoff Green, Santa Barbara City College Foundation
James Joyce, Office of State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson
Paul Murphy,
Allan Hancock College
Andrew Oman, California Teachers Association
Manuel Pastor, USC Equity Research Institute
Bernardo Perez, Ventura County Community College District
Erica Reyes,
Office of Rep. Salud Carbajal
Mahil Senathirajah, The Fund for Santa Barbara
Wendy Sims-Moten, First 5 Santa Barbara County
Eric Talkin,
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
Kaia Tollefson, California State University Channel Islands
Luis Villegas,
Mechanics Bank
Nancy Weiss,
The Fund for Santa Barbara
Sigrid Wright, Community Environmental Council
Zohar Ziv, Deckers Outdoors Corporation, Retired
Regional Equity Initiative 