Today – for the second episode of Policy Drivers – we talked with Monica Guzmán, Policy Director for Go Austin! Vamos Austin!.
She focuses on targeting issues that communities want and working closely with them to provide in-person outreach and realization of goals through research and evaluation of public policy. Monica is a native Austinite passionate about public education, housing affordability, Latinx community health, social service systems, and domestic violence, and serves on the Caritas of Austin Board of Directors.
Monica earned a BA in Political Science from St. Edward’s University and her MA in Human Sciences- Sociology and Education from Our Lady of the Lake University. Her focus within GAVA is building up a coalition in North Austin, leading and coordinating GAVA’s Policy Team, and keeping up with transportation and mobility issues, and police-community interactions.
Policy Drivers is a series of video conversations that Farm&City’s 2020 Summer Interns are conducting with public policy leaders across the state. All the videos are posted to our YouTube page, and you can subscribe directly to the YouTube feed there.