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.

Interactive Design by OIC

expanding the world of ideas

Thank you to Zócalo sponsors: