Community Coalition
Emelin Vivar is a skilled social media professional and content creator currently serving as the Social Media Manager at Joinable since September 2024 and as a social media assistant for @UCLA and UCLA Magazine since September 2023. Vivar's experience includes significant roles at Community Coalition as a Prevention Assistant and CDF Freedom Schools IRC Coordinator, where responsibilities included outreach and curriculum development. Additional experience encompasses positions as a Digital Content Intern at the Children's Institute and as Director of Photography for projects with Get Lit - Words Ignite and Frieze, showcasing talent in visual storytelling. Vivar holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Government from UCLA, expected in June 2025.
Community Coalition
Our Mission: To help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing and changing public policy. Who We Are: Community leaders, including U.S. Congresswoman Karen Bass, founded Community Coalition as a non-profit organization in 1990 in response to the 1980's crack cocaine epidemic that devastated South LA. The goal was to provide preventative community-centered solutions to the drug problem. Community Coalition works with African American and Latino residents to build a prosperous and healthy South LA with safe neighborhoods, quality schools, a strong social safety net and positive economic development in order to reduce crime, poverty and substance abuse in our community.