Ricardo Alfaro is a Senior Employment Specialist who has worked at Chrysalis, which provides employment preparation classes and services designed to improve job search skills, for over 7 years. A strong advocate who works to build awareness, develop career and education plans to marginalized communities, particularly those affected by poverty, homelessness, poor education, re-entry, and trauma. He has personally been engaged in program development, and program implementation to promote enrichment programming and job outcomes for these communities. At work and in the community, Ricardo can be seen at work mentoring and coaching teammates and clients. He is a strong believer in the power of positive thinking in the workplace and waking up with a sense of purpose every morning.

Major Bunton is the Vice President of Inglewood Wrapping Arms Around The Community (IWATC). He was born and raised in the city of Inglewood. He has witnessed firsthand how the lack of resources can make it extremely difficult for its community members. Major is passionate about restoring the integrity of the area by providing support to the community through the arts and a variety of supportive services. As a teaching artist for Creative Acts, he has taken a skill that is unfamiliar to most inner-city youth and has incorporated it into the programming provided within IWATC’s Resource Center. The tools he has acquired and now shares were learned through programs like Breaking Barriers, Domestic Violence Prevention, Anger Management, Stress Management, Youth Awareness Adult Program (YAAP), Youth Offender Program (YOP), and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Major is looking forward to creating a path of growth and opportunity for the City of Champions.

Rafael has a degree in business where he graduated with honors, owns multiple businesses as a serial entrepreneur, is a mentor, motivational speaker, family man, finance and career coach, a life-long student and an advocate for social change. He has been a college and career coordinator for California inmates for over 10 years and taught financial literacy. He is passionate, sociable and likes to think of himself as a decent comedian. However, things have not always been this way for him. He made several terrible decisions and at the age of 18 was sent to prison with a life sentence. After much self-reflection, honesty, hard work and the support of others, he was able to make a change. It was only by the grace of God that he was given a second opportunity and released from prison. Today, Mr. Quiroz is on a mission to give back and help build his community, the same community he once tore down. He’s transformed his own life and is helping others do the same.

Sabra Williams has received international acclaim for her work as an actor, host and founding director of The Actors’ Gang Prison Project, including being named by President Obama a, “Champion of Change” in 2016, and being honored with a British Empire Medal for services to the Arts & Prison Reform by Queen Elizabeth in 2018.

Sabra is co-founder of Creative Acts, a Social Justice initiative that uses the Arts as the tool for transformation. Creative Acts has Civic Engagement programs in juvenile facilities, anti-racism training and a new Virtual Reality Arts Reentry program in adult maximum security prisons, for people returning after life sentences.

Sabra is a Visiting Lecturer at UCLA and an Adjunct Professor at USC. She is a Bellagio Rockefeller Resident Fellow and an in-demand speaker on justice and Arts issues.

She is a member of The Independent Shakespeare Company, LA ensemble.