Board of Advisors
Vicente 'Panama' Alba
Vicente 'Panama' Alba, a former Young Lord and political prisoner, is currently an Executive Board Member and Delegate of Laborers Local 108 (L.I.U.N.A.) AFL/CIO where he organizes workers, mainly immigrants and many undocumented in the solid waste and recycling industry. He is also a board member of For A Better Bronx. Previously, he served as a member of the local advisory board of the Free Speech Community sponsored by WBAI, founded the Latino committee within the station, and helped to
found the South Bronx Clean Air Coalition, the David Sanes Rodriguez Brigade for Peace and Justice in Vieques (the Vieques Brigade), and the National Congress of Puerto Rican Rights. Mr. Alba was also a Revson Fellow in 2005-2006, focusing on writing courses, and is presently writing his autobiography.
Ric Campbell
Ric Campbell is the director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College.
Christina Fuentes
Christina Fuentes the principal of P.S. 24 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and has extensive experience in Dual Language programs.
Kian Goh
Kian Goh, AIA, is an architect, educator, and community activist. She is a partner at super-interesting! - a multidisciplinary architecture, design, and sustainability consulting practice. Previously, she worked with Weiss/Manfredi Architects in New York City, and with MVRDV in Rotterdam. She teaches design and sustainability at Parsons The New School for Design and serves on the board of directors of the Audre Lorde Project, an organizing center for LGBT people of color. Kian received a Master of Architecture from Yale University, where she was the recipient of the HI Feldman and James Gamble Rogers prizes.
Daliah Heller
Daliah Heller has been involved in community health programs, activism, policy and research for over ten years. Although she has focused particularly on issues related to drug use, HIV/AIDS, and maternal-child health, she is a strong believer in the value of sound humanistic public health policy and practice for all areas of our lives. She has a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, and is currently completing her PhD in Social Policy at CUNY. Her work experience includes the
development, leadership, and management of a syringe exchange-harm reduction-human services program in the Bronx, as Executive Director for nine years, and previous work in foundation grant-making, evaluation research data collection and analysis, and human services delivery. Currently, she is the Director of Harm Reduction at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Alfredo Lopez
Alfredo Lopez is a Co-Director of May First/People Link, an alternative Internet services provider in existence since 1994.
An organizer and activist for 40 years, Alfredo has been involved in community, labor and social justice movements of all types and has played leading roles in events like the Day of Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence in 1974 at Madison Square Garden (the largest event of its type in history), the 1976 counter bi-centennial, and the campaign to stop the privatization of public hospitals in New York City in the 1990's. He is a founding parent of the Brooklyn New School. He has taught at five of the CUNY schools as well as Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has authored six published books and hundreds of articles.
Ruben Sosa
Ruben Sosa is the Outreach and Education Coordinator for the Trinity Healing Center. The Trinity Healing Center is dedicated to the intervention and prevention of family violence and abuse, serving people of diverse faiths, cultures and personal experiences. Mr. Sosa is also an editor and writer for Brecha “The Break of Light into Darkness,” a bilingual newsletter in Sunset Park. He was the founder of the Latino Youth League of Sunset Park, a tutorial program based at Trinity Lutheran Church and was instrumental in developing the Student/Youth Network of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights. Ms. Sosa has
also written for the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy and El Pitirre.
Irene Shen
Irene Shen is a certified public school teacher and also has a masters in Social Work. She is currently the Director of the BASE Partnership with Brooklyn Botanic Garden/Prospect Park Alliance. Irene also has worked on environmental justice campaigns and urban farming projects.
Irene Tung
Irene Tung has been a resident of Sunset Park since 2001. She has been a community organizer in New York City for 6 years. Currently she is the Coordinator of Organizing at Make the Road by Walking, a membership-based organization fighting for social, racial and economic justice for low-income and immigrant New Yorkers. Irene provides strategic support and supervision for Make the Road's housing, environmental justice, electoral, LGBT and parent organizing projects.