Refugio Mata

Refugio Mata is a Los Angeles-based online organizer with extensive background in community organizing tactics and Integrated Communications Management. He is a Communications Coordinator for Good Jobs L.A., a grassroots campaign based in South L.A. In addition, for close to five years, he served as Project Organizer for Heal the Bay, an environmental nonprofit organization that focuses on revitalizing the Santa Monica Bay. He co-founded their “Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Environment Initiative” as part of a communications strategy to organize around environmental justice issues in inner-city Los Angeles. For several years Refugio has focused on working with the African-American and Latino communities of South Los Angeles, where he has managed greening beautification projects such as school gardens, pocket parks and public “Living Rooms.”