Luz Galicia (She/her) is a single mother of two daughters, Katherine and Diana, who both already graduated from college. She also became a grandmother of Dimitri two years ago. Luz emerged as a fierce community leader in 9to5 ‘s housing campaign to stop the eviction of the Denver Meadows Mobile Home Park Community where she was a resident. She was “the Vecinos Unidos HOA” president for Denver Meadows during the entire closing process of the Park. Luz was helping to lead the fight against all odds to stop the rezoning of her community and collectively purchase the park.
She is currently working in collaboration with the City of Boulder and 9to5 at The Different Mobile Home Communities at Boulder to organize the residents – especially those who are underrepresented. In this role, Luz has a passion to help mobile home communities through: informing, educating and empowering resident leaders; building collaborations with organizations, elected officials and other city representatives to benefit residents; and organizing resident leaders around new state legislative efforts. She does this in part by providing “know your rights” trainings to empower and motivate residents to voice their concerns and get actively involved.
Luz brings a wealth of lived and professional experience to her organizing role, having earned her journalism degree in Mexico and also working in the hospitality business for over 26 years.