Addy has more than fifteen years experience working in the non profit arts sector. She focuses on the intersection of cultural development, policy, and arts accessibility for communities. The Los Angeles City Council and the Public Works Department has awarded Addy with certificates of recognition as a Latina woman in the arts. She has also been named an Impact-Maker to Watch in 2020 by City Impact Labs. 

She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, grew up in southeast LA and moved to the San Fernando Valley at age 18. In her early career, Addy worked as drafter and designer for T.W. Layman Associates, a commercial architectural firm earning the title of lead designer before transitioning her career to the arts. She interned at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach and was a board member of Arts in Education Aid Council. Addy has worked with the City of Los Angeles Council District 7 as its Cultural Development consultant where she created a comprehensive public art development plan specific to the Van Nuys corridor. She is an alumni of the Arts for LA Activate Cultural Policy program and is the inaugural fellow of the Arts for LA Laura Zucker Fellowship for Policy and Research.

Addy received her B.A. in Art History, Criticism and Conservation from UCLA and has an M.A. in Arts Administration from Drexel University. She’s dedicated her career to providing structure and support systems that ensure the transformational power of art is an integral part of healthy communities.

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Erin is an arts administrator, curator and creative marketing specialist born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. She started her career teaching high-school, working with at-risk teens in special education. Erin received a degree in photography and visual communications and been recognized locally and nationally for her photographic work. She has over 15 years of experience in grassroots activism, event production, youth mentorship and community development through the arts,  

With a passion for culture, representation and story-telling, Erin's curatorial work has been published in The New Yorker, Artillery Magazine, Hyperallergic, LA Times and featured on Spectrum News and NPR. In addition to co-directing 11:11, Erin is the Assistant Supervisor of Exhibitions at Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA and sits on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival, which is dedicated to representing and celebrating the diversity within the independent film community.

Erin has received numerous awards of recognition from the City of Los Angeles and, along with Addy, was named an Impact-Maker to Watch by City Impact Labs. She recently completed the Executive Arts and Culture Strategy program wth National Art Strategies and Penn State. Erin is mental health advocate, plant enthusiast, and along with her pit bull mix, Ash, an avid wanderer and traveler.

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Lisa Davis began working in community arts in 2004 as a Teaching Artist for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta and at the High Museum of Art as the Coordinator of Education Volunteers. In 2010, Lisa moved to Chicago to join the staff at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago where she focused on co-creating interdisciplinary teaching resources to connect the Museum’s gallery tours with K-12 school curriculum. Following her time in Chicago, Lisa enjoyed the sunshine of San Diego, leading the Education department at Lux Art Institute in developing a wide range of intergenerational opportunities to broaden and deepen public engagement with art and the living artist.

Currently, Lisa’s day job is with the Education department at the Getty Villa, promoting meaningful engagement with art through interactive gallery tours with K-12 visitors. She moonlights teaching process-art at the Reseda Recreation Center and with the City of San Fernando. Lisa holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Rollins College and an M.A.Ed. from Georgia State University with a teaching certification in P12 Arts Education.

Desserin Pereyra (she/her/hers) is a self-proclaimed business nerd and founder of the 818 Community Darkroom, a photography darkroom and community art space in Van Nuys. She is a US Army veteran with a background in consulting for non-profit organizations and small businesses in the wellness industry. 

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She graduated with a BS in Psychology from the the Philippines, a bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership from California Lutheran University and is in the process of completing the Executive MBA from California Lutheran University this spring. 

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She enjoys being outdoors, shopping for vintage finds and visiting the museums with her husband and 12 year old daughter. She is also the granddaughter of a California based muralist whose murals are still around to this day. 

Jeffrey Chean has been in specialty coffee since 1994 and  is Groundwork Coffee’s “Chief Coffee Guy”, Principal, and co-founder.   Groundwork is a certified organic coffee roasting company with roasteries and retail cafes in both Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon. Groundwork was one of the first certified organic coffee roasters in California.  While Jeff oversees the sourcing, purchasing, and roasting of all Groundwork’s green coffee (1,300,000 lb.+ per year and growing) his main passions revolve around being a fierce advocate for coffee farms to transition to certified organic status while forging partnerships at Origin with coffee growers.  Building on these relationships, he develops programs that focus on improving the lives of coffee communities while increasing the supply chain of high-quality, certified organic specialty coffee, and providing a stable purchasing partner for their certified organic coffee.  Jeff is a natural storyteller who wants to drive home the connection between the food and drink people consume with the stories, lives, and struggles of those communities who make their consumption possible.   Amongst the first people in the world to be certified as a Q Grader, Jeff is a subject matter expert on Sensory and Coffee Roasting, an active Int’l Judge with the Cup of Excellence, loves writing about himself in the third person, and is an all-around fun guy to travel with at Origin.  Really.

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Jeff attended California State University in Northridge and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Finance and Real Estate) in 1987. In 1991, he broke his mother’s heart when he fell in love with coffee and dropped out of law school to follow that passion.

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