Meet Zócalo
About Zócalo Public Square
Zócalo Public Square is a non-profit organization that mobilizes broad audiences around the fundamental issues that affect our lives as Americans. Through our web magazine, lectures, panels, screenings, and conferences, Zócalo takes on compelling ideas from a wide range of fields — politics, governance, health, economics, technology, foreign policy, arts, science and beyond. Believing that over-specialization and narrowcasting undermine the public square, Zócalo seeks to restore broad-mindedness to civic and intellectual life and to welcome a new, young and diverse generation to the conversation.
Since 2003, Zócalo has roamed around Los Angeles, to Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco and as far as Shanghai, Berlin and Guadalajara. We have featured over 800 thinkers and doers online and on the ground, using our live events to build community and feed the open, accessible, non-partisan spirit of our magazine.
Staff
Dulce Vasquez
Program Director
Laura Villalpando
Media & Field Producer
Swati Pandey
Editor
Contributing Editorial & Production Staff
Colette LaBouff Atkinson
Poetry Editor
Shahnaz Habib
Writer
Angilee Shah
Writer
Leslie Griffin
Program Assistant
Mark Boalt
Videographer
Adam Fleisher
Writer
Jodie C. Liu
Writer
Saskia Vogel
Writer
Aaron Salcido
Photographer
Terry Liquori
Webmaster
Board of Directors
Gregory Rodriguez
Founder / Executive Director
Zócalo Public Square
Thomas Tseng
President of the Board
Principal / Co-Founder
New American Dimensions Market Research
Tara L. Taylor
Treasurer of the Board
Vice President and COO
Community Financial Resource Center
Margaret Leal-Sotelo
Secretary of the Board
Acting Assistant Provost
UCLA Center for Community Partnership
Darin Beaman
Executive Creative Director
OIC Integrated Marketing and Brand Communications Agency
Victor M. Franco
Vice President-Community Affairs and Media Relations
Telemundo TV52/ KWHY 22
David Gershwin
Vice President
Cerrell Associates
Grace Kim
Principal
Grace Kim Consulting
Rebecca Mardach, M.D.
Partner
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Steve O. Moya
Retired, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Humana Healthcare
Ralph Walter
Senior Managing Director
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LLP
The Zócalo Public Square Board of Directors meets bimonhly.
