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In addition to over 15 years of work on private and non-profit events, music festivals, and touring productions, Virginia has spent the last 20 years working towards social justice advocacy and reform, including criminal justice and prison reform, mental health care access, HIV / AIDS education and service access, and LGBTQ, gender, disability and racial equity. She’s been a member of the Los Angeles chapter of the organization Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), the ACLU, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Real Justice PAC’s Fellows Program of 2020.
Virginia’s also been able to speak publicly on the topic of gendered and racial interpersonal violence in event spaces, and is invested in broadening the scope and definition of “safety” to create holistically safe environments for our communities through events. She’s thrilled to be a part of an organization with a vision for equitable access to open space, nature, and education to all LA Residents, empowering our communities to participate in fully integrated and healthy environmental programs and the growth of our River. She’s also currently studying for the LSAT to go to law school, with the long-term goal of becoming a public interest lawyer, focusing on advocacy for the wrongfully incarcerated and all of those on death row.