Juan Gomez is a proud father to Rayo Tamoxtzin (Sacred Lightning Spirit Ray). In addition, he has dedicated his adult life to being a cultural broker, movement builder, spontaneous storyteller and barrio “community” scholar. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at MILPA. Juan works to build next generation leadership while supporting healing informed team building. Throughout his career Juan has provided technical assistance for various youth justice strategies and initiatives, where he co-created healing-informed capacity building, training and strategic facilitation. Juan has also gained valuable experience by working at The California Endowment on issues impacting Boys and Men of Color. Mr. Gomez aims to see a world without the need to arrest, detain, convict, or send people into the correctional system. Juan was raised by his grandparents Amelia and Ampelio and is of Coahuiltecan and Chicano indigenous descent.

Together, Maya Sol and Juan Gomez are uniquely positioned to co-design and deliver a series of services due to the lived experience and professional acumen that blends the understanding of social and racial justice, cultural wisdom and identity formation, institutional oppression and liberation, and cultivating team leadership facilitation that includes Indigenous practice and anti-oppressive frameworks as a core strategy to achieving positive, sustainable, and transformative results.