Meet the Newest Board Members

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Drucella Anne Miranda is a sister, mentor, artist, and decolonizing + abolitionist feminist. She was born in the borderlands of Texas and has been a long time resident of the Central Valley. An alumna from the University of California, Davis, she has a bachelor's in Women and Gender Studies as well as American Studies focusing on critical feminist theory and youth development. As a student, she worked as a community activist with youth to foster consciousness through critical dialogue and the arts. She has recently received her Master’s degree in Public Administration through the University of San Francisco. Today she continues her activism through weaving creativity, advocacy, organizing strategies, and design principles within non-formal education to raise self-efficacy among the youth within the Sacramento area and is currently a fellow for the Transatlantic Exchange of Civic Educators.

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Crystal Rose Sanchez is a boots-on-the-ground community organizer who cares passionately and fiercely advocates with our unhoused neighbors. Crystal is current President of the Sacramento Homeless Union and is also an Executive Board Member of the National Union of the Homeless, and Co-Founder of Sacramento S.O.U.P. – Solidarity Of Unhoused Peoples. 

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Parker Evans is an affordable housing development professional with experience managing the entitlements, financing, and construction of multifamily affordable housing. He moved from Minneapolis back to Sacramento in 2018. Parker joined the CLT because he believes that everybody should be afforded the opportunity to live in his city and community. 
Parker holds a Bachelors degree in economics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He resides in Midtown Sacramento, and after work, he can frequently be found catching a show at one of Sacramento's many music venues.

Meet our Board Members!