LMAC: MEET OUR MEMBERS
What is LibroMobile Arts Co-op (LMAC)?
We are a collective of community organizers, cultural producers, and local artists working collaboratively to form a workers' cooperative. Currently, our active members include contracted workers and volunteers of LibroMobile, Barrio Writers, and Crear Studio, alongside a community-based advisory board.
Through our various fundraising efforts, we hope to continue to create visibility for our FREE arts programming and pay local artists and writers via workshops, exhibits and live readings, while also establishing ourselves as an artists' and workers' cooperative in Santa Ana, California.
More info coming soon!
LibroMobile
Yuri Velasco, Website Content Manager
Yuri is a Oaxacaliforniana, an educator and full-time tía. She enjoys learning new languages, music, concerts, and cultural events. Yuri is the creator of the show Canciones Bordadas.
Erin Rubin, Managing Editor
Erin joined LibroMobile after moving to OC from Boston in 2019. She's a writer and editor working with nonprofits and social movements, and runs our book review program, LM Voices and monthly newsletter.
Kara Chizek, DH Coordinator
Kara holds a degree in Economics and International Studies with a minor in Humanities and Law from UCI. She is a current M.A. student at UCI in Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics. As an intern with the UCI Archives and Special Collections in 2025, Kara helped create tutorials on digital archiving with LibroMobile and categorize books within a library database. She is excited to continue engaging with local community members and organizers - Santa Ana and beyond - and ultimately aspires to center their voices in statewide policy making decisions.
Carla Zárate Suárez,
Graphic Designer & Videographer
Carla is a graphic journalist and multimedia artist. She began exploring ways of communicating social issues through art when she produced and directed the Documentary San Vicente Ferrer Mission. She supports all LMAC projects.
Danna Ortiz, Bookstore Manager
Danna Ortiz is a graduate of CSUF and Santa Ana Community College, marking a significant milestone as the first in her family to pursue higher education. As the eldest of five, her academic journey set a new precedent for her siblings. In 2023, Danna joined LibroMobile, a move that ignited her affection for the Santa Ana Community and provided her with a platform to gradually reconnect with her Mexican heritage.
Reggie Peralta, Open Mic Host
A Santa Ana native, Reggie Peralta has many interests but they usually lead him back to writing. He has contributed book and film criticism for LibroMobile and The Grindhouse Cinema Database, political editorials for the Libertarian Party of Orange County’s blog, and publishes short stories and poetry on Substack at Reggie The Writer. In 2023, his short story "The Katzenjammer Crisis" was published in Santa Ana Literary Association's Zoo-Fi: an Anthology of Zoological Fiction. While his writing spans many genres and subjects, his general sensibility can be summed up as "funny, but somehow also kinda sad".
Johanna Lopez,
Assistant Bookstore Manager
Johanna joined LibroMobile through a youth work program as her first job. She enjoys reading a variety of books, which she gained from working at Santa Ana's only independent bookstore. She’s learned new and different things about the community while working at LibroMobile, and looks forward to keep it open in the future.
Crear Studio
Anaid Hernandez, Gallery Coordinator
(on sabbatical until 2026)
Anaid is from Santa Ana, a first-generation CSULB Bachelor of Arts in Art History graduate and an artist herself. She joined LibroMobile Summer of 2022 as a volunteer in the Digital Humanities program and expanded her skills to dedicate time as a gallery coordinator at Crear Studio.
Alex Ramirez, DH Coordinator
Alex Ramirez is a graphic design student and a contemporary artist. Born and raised in Santa Ana, He began volunteering at Crear Studio in fall 2024 as a gallery assistant to gain inspiration for his artistic journey, later working on digital archival projects to help preserve past exhibitions.
Khadijah Silva, Studio Fellow
Khadijah Silva is an interdisciplinary artist whose expansive practice moves across photography, painting, video, audio, and installation. Through her work, Silva engages with themes of displacement, stolen histories, and the mythologies surrounding Blackness. She explores the body and its representation, approaching these subjects from both aesthetic and epistemic perspectives. Silva employs opacity as a tool to convey the nuanced complexities of identity, theories of belief, and systemic structures that shape our lived experiences. Silva holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her work has been shown at the University Art Gallery (Irvine), Good Mother Gallery (Los Angeles), Crear Studio (Santa Ana), Fullerton Museum Center (Fullerton), among others.
Roger Eyes R, Studio Fellow
Professional multidisciplinary artist Roger Eyes R, has creatively engaged with communities in and around his hometown since 2015. His interest is in the people, history, and culture of Santa Ana California. Roger studied sculpting, painting, and design while currently focusing on large scale murals. He remains an active member of the art community with award winning independent creative projects, partnerships and collaborations that continue to connect people to art and further strengthen the future of Santa Ana's arts and culture.
Keila Georgette Aparicio, Studio Fellow
Keila Georgette Aparicio is a Mexican-American multi-media artist based in Orange County, California. Specializing in analog collage, she also writes and screenwrites, weaving together visual and narrative forms to explore identity, memory, and cultural storytelling.
Advisory Board*
Mary Camarillo, Advisor
Mary Camarillo writes about Huntington Beach, California, where she lives. She’s a longtime fan of LibroMobile and is proud to have her debut novel The Lockhart Women and second book Those People Behind Us on the local author shelf.
Manuel G. Galaviz, Advisor
Dr. Manny is a former construction worker, archeologist, Barrio Writers writing advisor and recently a PhD scholar in Sociocultural Anthropology, specializing in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Anthropology, currently a CSUF professor in the Division of Anthropology. He is also the host of LibroMobile's first podcast: Scholar Holler.
Lilia Raquel Rosas,
Fiscal Sponsor Advisor
Dr. Lilia Raquel Rosas is from the San Francisco Bay Area, but has resided in Austin, Texas for over two decades. She's the Executive Director of Red Salmon Arts and caretaker of Resistencia Bookstore, which are dedicated to Chicana/o/x, Latina/o/x, and Indigenous cultural arts programming. She is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT at Austin.
J. Andrea "Yaya" Porras,
Fiscal Sponsor Advisor
J. Andrea Porras / yAyA is a Queer, Two -Spirit, Coahuiltecan descendant ~ ChicanIndia, madre, cultura cura curator/producer, intersectional artist/ practitioner; with over 25 years’ experience in performance, organizing, facilitation, grant making, grant reviewing, philanthropy, and mentoring. She's co-founder of MA Series Arts.
Jenise Miller, Advisor
Jenise Miller is a Black Panamanian, Compton-based writer, poet, and urban planner whose work explores art, archives, geographic mapping, and intersectional history. A Pushcart-nominated poet and Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) alumna, she is the author of the poetry chapbook, "The Blvd."
Marilynn Montaño, Advisor
Marilynn Montaño is a writer and artist from Santa Ana, California. She is a first-generation Chicana. Montaño is a proud daughter of migrant parents from Puebla, Mexico.
Sarah Rafael García,
Volunteer Founder/Executive Director
Sarah is an award-winning local author, community educator, digital archivist and performance ethnographer. She’s the author of Las Niñas and SanTanas Fairy Tales, co-editor of pariahs and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers as well as founder of Barrio Writers (2009), LibroMobile (2016) and Crear Studio (2017).
* Some LMAC roles/members choose to not have a virtual presence. More details can be provided upon request.