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Daniel HoSang is the former director of People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO) and one of the founders of Oakland-based Kids First. He's conducted community training sessions nationally for many years and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation in New York City and a former Board Member of the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing. He is completing a PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC) where he studies social movements, racial politics, and political discourse.

  
 
Dan lives in Long Beach, California with his partner Norma and stepdaughter Umai.
  
 
Dan's published reports and articles have addressed youth organizing, welfare reform, police accountability and labor issues.
  
 
Dan generally accepts consulting projects between May and August only.
  
 
     
 
Julie Quiroz-Martínez has nearly 20 years experience in nonprofit organizations including leadership positions in national organizations such as National Council of La Raza and National Immigration Forum, as well as California organizations such as Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights and Urban Habitat. Julie has developed and facilitated a broad range of trainings and decision-making processes with organizations across the country. She has directed national research projects including a multi-city examination of organizing among new immigrants and established residents.

Julie's recent articles have focused on the intersection of immigrant rights and racial justice. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Common Counsel Foundation.

Julie lives in Oakland, California with her husband Germán and two-year-old daughter Alausí.
 
 
         
 
  Selected Online Articles and Reports  
 
  Selected Online Articles  
 
 
 
 
"Youth and Community Organizing Today". 2003. Published by the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing, Occasional Papers Series on Youth Organizing, #2. Download as a PDF here 
 “Hiding Race”. (An early report on Ward Connerly’s ballot initiative to ban the collection of race and ethnicity data). ColorLines. Volume 4, Number 4. Winter 2001-2002. View here

“All the Issues in Workers Lives: Labor Confronts Race in Stamford”. ColorLines. Volume 3, Number 2. Summer 2000. Reprinted in Shelterforce Online, Issue # 111, May/June 2000. View here

“The Economics of the New Brutality”. ColorLines. Volume 3, Number 2. Summer 2000.Volume 2, Number 4. Winter 1999-2000. View here

“Oakland Campaign Puts Kids First”. (Featured ‘Organize!’ Column) Shelterforce Online, November/December 1997, Issue #96. View here
  
 
 


"Missing Link: Connecting Immigrant Rights to Racial Justice". Colorlines, Summer 2001. Reprinted in Nonprofit Quarterly, volume 9, issue 2, Summer 2002. View here

"A Fair and Just Amnesty: A Grassroots Movement for Immigrant Legalization is Gathering Strength". The Nation, May 21, 2001. View here

 “Poetry is a Political Act: An Interview with June Jordan”. Colorlines, Winter 1999. View here

"Let Freedom Roll". The Nation, October 27, 2003. View here

  
 
     
 
   
  Selected Online Reports  
 
   
 


"Roadblocks to Health: Transportation Barriers to Healthy Communities, Transportation and Land Use Coalition". October 2002. Download PDF here

"Together in Our Differences: How New Immigrants and Established Residents are Rebuilding American Communities". National Immigration Forum, 1995. Download PDF here