Meet our MDLT Team
Irma R. Muñoz
President / CEO
Rosa Bautista
Chief Advisor & Executive Operations Manager
Irma R. Muñoz is the Founder/President of Mujeres de la Tierra – a “culturally relevant”
environmental non-profit focused on healing la Madre Tierra and re-defining the
traditional “green” dialogue. She has developed guidelines and approaches for effective community
engagement through using creative tools including “platicas” resulting in
impactful participation where members of the community are inspired to “lead”
and “own” issues in their neighborhood.
She believes that community engagement is about community listening. Listening
not just with our ears, but also with our eyes, head and heart.
For the past 11 years, she has served as a Governor’s appointee to the Los
Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board and is the City of Los Angeles
Mayor’s appointee to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy which provides
the opportunity to also serve on the Mountains Recreation Conservation
Authority.
Yuliza Navarro
Engagement Specialist
Yuliza Navarro is the Engagement Specialist of Mujeres de La Tierra. She was born and raised in South East Los Angeles. Throughout her experiences living in overlooked communities. She pursued her goal of wanting to give back to her community. Hoping one day she will help many young Latinas(os) to thrive in higher education.
Yuliza earned her bachelor's degree in Sociology: Social Inequality from the University of California, San Diego(UCSD). With plans to pursue a Master's Degree in College Counseling and Secondary Counseling. She strives to help many students continue with higher education.
Rosa Bautista is the Chief Advisor & Executive Operations Manager of Mujeres de La Tierra. Rosa was born in Mexico and raised in East Los Angeles. She comes with 30 years of experience in the environmental education field. She has extensive experience in school and community greening by planting and caring for trees in areas like Watts, Compton, South East LA and Sun Valley.
She wants to share with communities all open spaces around us and plant the "love of nature" in people's hearts. She embraces every community with “respect, amor y orgullo de la comunidad.” "Community building is relationship building. It needs care, respect and time to grow and after it gets that, it can bloom beautifully and change the whole community."
Christopher Ayala
Mujeres de la Tierra Student Intern
Christopher Ayala is our Mujeres de la Tierra Student Intern. He has volunteered with Mujeres for three years. Christopher hopes to pursue a career in Technical Theatre while attending Los Angeles Community College. He gained experience by leading our Telenovelas in the Park.
Briseida Pineda
VISTA- Volunteer Coordinator
Briseida Pineda hopes to gain further experience working in the non-profit field, which will significantly impact her career future and open doors for her to work towards social justice and social change. Currently she is in her third year at California State University of Dominguez Hills majoring in Sociology and minoring Psychology. Her life goal has always been to give back to her community. She believes Mujeres de la Tierra will help achieve her goal.