LMAC: MEET OUR MEMBERS
What is LibroMobile Arts Co-op (LMAC)?
We are a collective of community organizers, cultural producers, and local artists working collaboratively to form a workers' cooperative. Currently, our active members include contracted workers and volunteers of LibroMobile, Barrio Writers, and Crear Studio, alongside a community-based advisory board.
Through our various fundraising efforts, we hope to continue to create visibility for our FREE arts programming and pay local artists and writers via workshops, exhibits and live readings, while also establishing ourselves as an artists' and workers' cooperative in Santa Ana, California.
More info coming soon!
LibroMobile
Yuri Velasco, Website Content Manager
Yuri is a Oaxacaliforniana, an educator and full-time tía. She enjoys learning new languages, music, concerts, and cultural events. Yuri is the creator of the show Canciones Bordadas.
Marilynn Montaño, Events Manager
Marilynn Montaño is a writer and artist from Santa Ana, California. She is a first generation Chicana. Montaño is a proud daughter of migrant parents from Puebla, Mexico. Also an Advisory Board Member.
Erin Rubin, Managing Editor
Erin joined LibroMobile after moving to OC from Boston in 2019. She's a writer and editor working with nonprofits and social movements, and runs our book review program, LM Voices and monthly newsletter.
Carla Zárate Suárez,
Graphic Designer & Videographer
Carla is a graphic journalist and multimedia artist. She began exploring ways of communicating social issues through art when she produced and directed the Documentary San Vicente Ferrer Mission. She supports all LMAC projects.
Danna Ortiz, Bookstore Manager
Danna Ortiz is a graduate of CSUF and Santa Ana Community College, marking a significant milestone as the first in her family to pursue higher education. As the eldest of five, her academic journey set a new precedent for her siblings. In 2023, Danna joined LibroMobile, a move that ignited her affection for the Santa Ana Community and provided her with a platform to gradually reconnect with her Mexican heritage.
Kaye Regalado, DH Coordinator
Kaye Regalado is a UCI graduate in Literary Journalism and Film and Media Studies, with a minor in creative writing. In 2022, working with UCI Archives and Special Collections, she helped contribute to LibroMobile's oral history materials, contributing to an instructional zine covering how to conduct oral histories for the community. She is passionate about narrative and artistic storytelling, community work, and the accessibility of education. In her free time, she enjoys journaling, drawing, going on runs, exploring new places, and listening to music.
Kunthon "Katon" Meas,
Open Mic Host
Kunthon Meas is a California-based author. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and a minor in Asian American studies. At a very young age, he was inspired to write poetry and short stories using the Storybook Weaver software game. In 2020 during the pandemic, he challenged himself to complete a book sharing his life experiences through prose. He hosts the Open Mic nights at LibroMobile and on weekends helps event manage vendors with Weekend Night Market.
Crear Studio
Anaid Hernandez, Gallery Coordinator
Anaid is from Santa Ana, a first-generation CSULB Bachelor of Arts in Art History graduate and an artist herself. She joined LibroMobile Summer of 2022 as a volunteer in the Digital Humanities program and expanded her skills to dedicate time as a gallery coordinator at Crear Studio.
Yajaira Vilchis Alvarez, Studio Fellow
Yajaira Vilchis Alvarez is a first year Cultural Anthropology M.A student at CSUF. With firm belief in paving a way for more representation within the museum field, she wants to be able to be part of the growing diversity amongst museum staff and inspire others to do the same. She looks forward to fostering deep and meaningful connections with BIPOC audiences through the museum’s collection, programs, exhibition, and other opportunities that allow for diverse stories to be more accessible to wider audience.
Valentina Toledano, DH Coordinator
Valentina Toledano (she/her) is a Santa Ana resident with heritage roots in Morelos and Guerrero. She recently graduated from UC Irvine with a double Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Language Science and minored in Anthropology. During her undergraduate experience, she worked at UCI Special Collections & Archives and worked on expanding LibroMobile’s digital humanities (DH) projects, specifically a web tutorial about how-to-do oral history. She is passionate about disability justice and learning about Santa Ana’s hidden history. In her free time, Valentina enjoys watching anime, reading for fun, and exploring museums.
Khadijah Silva, Studio Fellow
Khadijah Silva is a second year Art MFA student attending UC Irvine’s Art M.F.A program. As a Black and Mexican artist, she believes in the importance of having mentors and leaders that look like students of color as it allows our youth to see themselves as role models and leaders within our communities and society. Khadijah believes that art can be a platform to speak about social injustice and affect social change.
Roger Eyes R, Studio Fellow
Professional multidisciplinary artist Roger Eyes R, has creatively engaged with communities in and around his hometown since 2015. His interest is in the people, history, and culture of Santa Ana California. Roger studied sculpting, painting, and design while currently focusing on large scale murals. He remains an active member of the art community with award winning independent creative projects, partnerships and collaborations that continue to connect people to art and further strengthen the future of Santa Ana's arts and culture.
Advisory Board*
Mary Camarillo, Advisor
Mary Camarillo writes about Huntington Beach, California, where she lives. She’s a longtime fan of LibroMobile and is proud to have her debut novel The Lockhart Women and second book Those People Behind Us on the local author shelf.
Manuel G. Galaviz, Advisor
Dr. Manny is a former construction worker, archeologist, Barrio Writers writing advisor and recently a PhD scholar in Sociocultural Anthropology, specializing in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Anthropology, currently a CSUF professor in the Division of Anthropology. He is also the host of LibroMobile's first podcast: Scholar Holler.
Lilia Raquel Rosas,
Fiscal Sponsor Advisor
Dr. Lilia Raquel Rosas is from the San Francisco Bay Area, but has resided in Austin, Texas for over two decades. She's the Executive Director of Red Salmon Arts and caretaker of Resistencia Bookstore, which are dedicated to Chicana/o/x, Latina/o/x, and Indigenous cultural arts programming. She is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT at Austin.
Jenise Miller, Advisor
Jenise Miller is a Black Panamanian, Compton-based writer, poet, and urban planner whose work explores art, archives, geographic mapping, and intersectional history. A Pushcart-nominated poet and Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) alumna, she is the author of the poetry chapbook "The Blvd."
J. Andrea "Yaya" Porras,
Fiscal Sponsor Advisor
J. Andrea Porras / yAyA is a Queer, Two -Spirit, Coahuiltecan descendant ~ ChicanIndia, madre, cultura cura curator/producer, intersectional artist/ practitioner; with over 25 years’ experience in performance, organizing, facilitation, grant making, grant reviewing, philanthropy, and mentoring. She's co-founder of MA Series Arts.
Sarah Rafael García, Founder
Sarah is an award-winning local author, community educator, digital archivist and performance ethnographer. She’s the author of Las Niñas and SanTanas Fairy Tales, co-editor of pariahs and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers as well as founder of Barrio Writers (2009), LibroMobile (2016) and Crear Studio (2017).
* Some LMAC roles/members choose to not have a virtual presence. More details can be provided upon request.