Emeritus
Rebecca Dolinsky, Angelica Franco-Zamudio, Rachel Bauman, Jo-Ann Birch,Vick ie Campbell, Glenn Cochran, Pat Dellin,
Cynthia Drule, Tim Fessenden, Mary Finch, Gail Grove, Kipp Herman, Mark Huett, Eden Jakajebarga Bell, Tom Kwai Lam, J.M. Rodriguez,Ryan Seacrest,Jerry Solomon, Shannon Sullivan, Chuck Volwiler, Chris Weir, Noreen Winkler, Susy Zepeda

Monica Morales
President

Mónica Morales has been involved in the Latino LGBT community for over a decade, working primarily with youth and Latina lesbians in the Watsonville community. She first became involved with Triangle Speakers as a youth participant, and years later served as the organization’s first Latino/a Outreach Coordinator. Ms. Morales received her Bachelors degree in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her MPA from Columbia University in New York. [ back to top ]

Joe Eugene
Vice President

Joe Eugene is a longtime resident of Santa Cruz County. He graduated from San Lorenzo Valley High School in 1967 and has lived in the area ever since. He attended a cluster college of the University of the Pacific that taught all its classes in Spanish. As a result he speaks pretty good Spanish for a gringo. He stays in practice with Spanish radio, TV and movies and has recently traveled in Peru, Chile, and Argentina. He retired in 2005 from a thirty-year career with the County of Santa Cruz, first as an adult social worker and then as a mainframe programmer/analyst. He is a gay man and a survivor of two long-term relationships totaling 27 years. Hobbies include digital photo restoration, voracious reading, travel and travel-related eating, and enthusiastic lolling. He was trained as a Triangle Speaker in 2003 and has done many gigs, including several at his old high school. He joined the board of directors in 2006 and was elected treasurer.[ back to top ]

Jay Melena
Treasurer

Jay Melena has been an active board member for the past two years in multiple capacities. Currently, Jay works as a Financial Analyst for Ecology Action, an environmental nonprofit organization serving Santa Cruz County. [ back to top ]

Josephine Ramos
Program Committee Co-Chair

Josephine Ramos has been a member of the board since 2002 and formerly served as President. Her contributions to the organization include working on the committee to establish the Latino Outreach Project. She has an MA in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. Josephine is a committed women’s activist and has worked with several non-profits and working groups including Defensa de Mujeres and the UCSC Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color. Her current professional work is as a Program Assistant for the International Family Planning and Leadership Program at International Health Programs, a non-profit doing reproductive health leadership training in Latin America, Africa and Asia. [back to top ]