Lucia Obregon Matzer

Lucia Obregon (she/her) is a Guatemalan-born queer artist and community organizer who currently resides in the Ramaytush Ohlone territory–the area of land that is known today as  San Francisco, California.
 
In her experience as a Policy Analyst and Organizer based in the Mission, Lucia has dedicated more than seven years to researching, informing, and developing equitable policy around housing, immigration, and education. She also led several leadership programs that recruited and organized community leaders around real, urgent, and increasingly relevant social issues–an effort that stimulates ongoing dialogue, collaboration, and problem-solving.
 
In 2021, Lucia was appointed Commissioner for the Immigrant Rights Commission of San  Francisco, enabling her to connect and partner with other immigrant communities like her own. Lucia currently serves as a program practitioner at the Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing, an 18-month leadership experience that uses the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) framework to strengthen the ecosystem of practitioners who are advancing racial and health equity through their work.
 
In October 2022, Lucia was named the new director at The San Francisco Latino Parity and Equity  Coalition (SFLPEC), a data-driven, a citywide coalition of more than 22 Latinx-led and Latinx-serving community-based agencies. Each year, SFLPEC represents over 900 employees and $90M in revenues and serves more than 80,000 families and individuals. The organization focuses its efforts and funds on six distinct areas: housing, arts and culture, health and wellness, workforce development, education, and social services for immigrant families.  

As part of her personal advocacy, Lucia volunteers with the Building Community Collective, where she assists with organizing events and actions related to working-class education, black liberation, and indigenous sovereignty. Moreover, she is an artist and one of the lead singers of  Inti Batey—‘Inti’, meaning Sun in Nahuatl. Inti is a five-member band whose sound represents a fusion of traditional and contemporary Latinx sounds. Lucia uses her music to speak to the hardships of the human experience in a time of heightened political oppression, health crisis, and spiritual awakening. Both her art and activism center on creating spaces of healing, collaboration, and exploration (personal and social),  providing communities with opportunities to explore the intersections and complexities of and between art, identity, and social justice.