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mission | goals | board | staff | contact Tsilah Burman – Executive Director
As Executive Director and first employee of the organization, Tsilah Burman worked with LANLT’s Board of Directors to create a fully functional non-profit organization. She is responsible for overseeing a staff of five people; creating strategies to fulfill LANLT’s mission; ultimate responsibility for budget, fundraising and ensuring the organization’s financial viability; political and media outreach; and Board Development. Gabriela García – Community Organizer
Gabriela is currently attending Los Angeles Trade Tech College, LATTC, working toward an AA in Community Planning and Community Economic Development. She is also participating in the UC Common Ground Master Gardener Program. As a Community Organizer, Gabriela’s goal is to create a self-sustaining space and introduce environmental justice issues to the residents, as well as to connect with other local groups to create community collaborations. Tanya Torres – Community Organizer
As a teacher, graduated from Queretaro University in Mexico, she learned to organize in poor marginalized indigenous communities. There she contributed to the development of a solid community leadership base responsible for the creation of roads, schools, clinics, and community gardens. In Los Angeles, she had been organizing for the past sixteen years around health, housing, economic development, education, environmental justice, culture and art with Canto Sin Fronteras KPFK radio, Comite Cultural Latino Americano, the International Coalition for Social Justice, Clinica Monsenor Romero, and Madison Neighborhood Partners. In 2006 she received the Cesar Chavez Award “ the Spirit of the Heart” for her dedication to history, culture, and current social topics through music, via Canto Sin Fronteras KPFK a radio show she created in 1995, and her tireless work as a community organizer for more than twenty years. Her commitment to environmental justice has led her to her work at LANLT where her goals are to help develop a leadership within community residents that will create environmental consciousness leading them to take ownership of current projects and expand green spaces in the city through collaboration with other organizations. Joel Jimenez – Park Supervisor
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Tsilah Burman has always been interested in and concerned with urban areas and how to create more vibrant and livable neighborhoods. She has extensive experience in the non-profit, public and private sectors. Prior to LANLT, Ms. Burman was Executive Director of New Schools Better Neighborhoods advocating for and working on joint-use school projects. Just prior to that, she was Executive Director of Rally To Save Ahmanson Ranch, the successful campaign to save Ahmanson Ranch for conservation. She spent 17 years of her career in commercial real estate with a focus on research, marketing, and investment. In the public sector, Ms. Burman worked for State Senator Herschel Rosenthal, State Assemblymember Burt Margolin, Congressmember Henry Waxman and L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky (when he was a City Councilmember). In the non-profit sector, Ms. Burman was Assistant Director of the Hollywood Revitalization Committee and has served on many non-profit Boards of Directors. She has also held leadership positions in professional organizations and served on the South Valley Area Planning Commission for the City of Los Angeles.
Gabriela Garcia came to join LANLT right from one of the project sites (Estrella Park), a community member looking to make a difference in her community. Through her efforts she was offered a position as a community organizer. She also serves as Vice-President for the Estrella Park Community Club, a group she helped form along with the other residents. The group works at creating an active, healthy and united community through park clean-up days, workshops, cultural festivals and family days. Prior to getting involved with the Estrella Park site, she had been an active volunteer at Proyecto Jardín, a community garden in Boyle Heights. She helped in the completion of two art mosaic walls in the garden entrance and in the collective planning and building of key areas of the garden.
Tanya Torres Mayahuel joins LANLT with more than twenty years of experience in grass roots organizing locally and globally.
Joel Jimenez recently got promoted to full-time status as the Marsh Skate Park Supervisor. Joel, who has lived in the neighborhood his whole life, has been looking forward to the opening of the skate park which was much needed for the kids in this area. Ever since it’s grand opening in September 2007, Joel has been skating there daily and later hired to supervise the park. Joel feels incredibly privileged to be doing what he loves, and has been a great mentor with the kids who skate there. Together, they are working on fundraiser ideas in order to install additional equipment to further improve the skate park.
