CACLTN STAFF
Leo Goldberg: Co-Director for Policy and Capacity Building
Leo Goldberg is Co-director for Policy and Capacity Building at the California Community Land Trust Network where he advocates for affordable, community-owned housing and facilitates peer-to-peer learning and program development for the state’s twenty-four Community Land Trusts. Prior to returning to California, Leo was Policy and Research Manager at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods where he led work on countering speculative real estate practices, addressing the racial wealth gap, and establishing pathways to homeownership for low-income New Yorkers. He was also a board member of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City. Prior to obtaining a graduate degree in Urban Planning, Leo worked on housing policy in both domestic and international contexts with a focus on equitable development, zoning, and gentrification and organized tenants in Central Brooklyn. He holds a B.A. in History and Urban Studies from Columbia University and a master’s degree in City Planning from MIT.
Lydia Lopez: Co-Director for Organizing and Partnerships
Lydia Lopez joined the CA CLT Network in February 2022 as Co-Director for Organizing and Partnerships. She has supported access to affordable housing and civil rights through her work with San Francisco tenants and homebuyers, and through work with asylum seekers from around the world. She believes in strategic partnerships and consulting Indigenous populations through collaborations that could create a lasting impact by promoting mutual education. Lydia has participated in Flores Settlement monitoring of detention conditions at the US/Mexico border and documented conditions at private for-profit detention centers. She has served on the boards of CSC, La Raza Centro Legal, and Centro del Pueblo, and she is currently serving as treasurer on the board of NISGUA. She grew up in Guatemala City and Caye Caulker, Belize, and she holds a BA in Political Science from Stanford University and a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law.
Janet Zamudio: Operations Associate
Janet Zamudio joined the CA CLT Network in November 2021 as Operations Associate for the Co-Directors of Organizing and Partnerships and Policy and Capacity Building. Janet Zamudio has a deep interest in connecting her passion for environmental justice and affordable housing. Her passion for housing justice and environmental justice stems from her upbringing in the Southeast Los Angeles area. She believes putting frontline communities’ voices first is essential to pushing effective housing initiatives and environmental justice initiatives. She hopes to uplift CLTs as a solution to secure housing for Californians. She also works with Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) in their research department, CBE's legal department, and is a legal intern with the international immigration law firm Tsang and Associates. She is currently attaining her B.A in Public Affairs and Geography from UCLA.
CACLTN Board Members
Saki Bailey: San Francisco CLT
Saki Bailey (JD & Ph.D.) has a decade of experience in nonprofit management and program development roles. Also, she has experience in teaching and training roles in the academic and non-profit sectors with a focus on the legal regulation around CLTs, Co-op formation, and incorporation. Saki is a published author on property law, community land trusts, and the commons in multiple academic non-academic sources in multiple languages. Saki’s work as an attorney, policy advocate, and researcher on shared equity ownership models offers her a unique perspective on the theory and practice of community land trusts. She serves currently on the board of the CACLTN to work on overseeing the design and execution of an unprecedented statewide survey of CLTs, was the acting Chair of the Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives Subcommittee in 2019-2020, and is responsible for incubating and drafting the Housing Justice Tax Equity Act (AB 1206).
Jen Collins: Oakland CLT
Jen Collins is Operations and Stewardship Manager at the Oakland Community Land Trust and board secretary for the California CLT Network. She and her family are also OakCLT homeowners. Prior to joining OakCLT’s staff, Jen served as a resident representative on the OakCLT board of directors.
Jennifer Ganata: Beverly-Vermont CLT
Jennifer Ganata has a deep interest in connecting her passion for environmental justice and housing in order to defend frontline communities’ right to housing and a better environment. She believes organizing is key to helping move our most vulnerable communities away from investing in an extractive economy. She is an environmental justice attorney at Communities for a Better Environment (www.cbecal.org) and has done work in the area of housing for several years doing eviction defense and land use. She is a member of BVCLT and served as a board member from 2015 to 2021. She is also a member of the National Lawyers Guild-LA chapter while volunteering time with the Pilipino Workers Center in Los Angeles.
Karla Juarez: THRIVE Santa Ana
Karla Juarez was born in Guatemala and was raised in Santa Ana occupying Acjachemen land. She has been an at-large community organizer, and in the early days was afraid of being identified as an activist. She has taken lead roles in her community including city-wide initiatives. She participates in various campaigns ranging from rent control to a day without immigrants. She is an avid advocate for AB540 which grants undocumented-students exemption on paying non-resident tuition. In summary, just like Charlie in Willy Wonka, she is just lucky to be here.
Oscar Monge: T.R.U.S.T L.A
Oscar Monge is a native Angeleno that aspires to stabilize gentrifying neighborhoods through community building and community control. Oscar brings a broad range of experiences working with non-profit and public sector organizations focused on improving the quality of life of inner-city residents due to his passion for social and environmental justice. He joined T.R.U.S.T. South LA in 2017 as an Environmental Planner, was promoted to Community Development Manager in 2018, and recently stepped into his new role as Associate Director of Community Development to support T.R.U.S.T. South LA’s large-scale and small multifamily housing projects, member & leadership development activities, as well as manage daily operations. Oscar is an active Board Member of the California Community Land Trust Network and an avid participant in his local Cypress Park Neighborhood Council’s Land Use and Housing Committee.
Eddie Torres: El Serrano CLT
Eddie Torres has devoted his entire professional career working in the public sector primarily focused on the area of social and housing justice. Eddie has held leadership positions at a wide variety of local and regional non-profit organizations. His most current community work involves co-forming the El Sereno Community Land Trust as an active board member and as the Director of Operations. Eddie currently provides educational and financial literacy consulting services to various organizations. He is a graduate of San Diego State University, where he earned his B.A. in Social Science. Eddie was awarded an Equity Fellowship to continue his graduate education at Cal State University, Northridge in Chicano Studies. Additionally, he is currently lecturing at LA Trade Tech College in the Community Planning & Economic Development department where he teaches Community Organizing and Non-Profit Management.
Ian Winters: Northern CLT
Ian Winters has served as Executive Director of the Northern California Land Trust since 2002 and is a long-term CLT & coop resident. Professionally he has over 10-years of experience in sustainable construction and architecture as well as community activism and organizational development. He trained as a photographer/filmmaker and art/architectural historian at Tufts University and the Boston Museum School and graduate architecture/design work at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture. Outside of the CLT world, he maintains an active life as a working artist.