Leadership Council

Sacred Heart’s Leadership Council began in 2020 as a step toward sharing power and lifting constituent voice to ensure our strategies and campaigns both reflect the vision of our constituents and continue to combat all forms of social oppression in the spirit of accountability, shared power, and solidarity.

All voting members of the SHCS Leadership Council commit to each other that we are:

  • Committed to building solidarity among the Sacred Heart community.

  • Actively involved in a Sacred Heart committee that has been meeting consistently for at least 6 months and whose membership consists of a majority of people directly impacted by the issues being addressed OR are actively involved in a “Sacred Heart solidarity committee,” which: Frequently reviews and trains members on the social justice context for their shared work; and has built-in structural accountability to the impacted group.

  • Appointed or elected by the members and staff of our committee.

  • Committed to represent our committee at 80% of Council meetings for the duration of at least one Council term of one year (may renew up to 3 terms).

  • Committed to striving toward consensus, but willing to participate in all group decisions through majority vote as deemed appropriate.

Current members of the SHCS Leadership Council include:

  • Elizabeth Agramont-Justiniano, SHHAC: Sacred Heart Housing Action Committee

  • Jessica Arciga, Resilient Families: Gilroy promotores network

  • Martha Barahona, La Mesa Verde network advisory committee

  • Tania Bravo Bernal, PASOS: Peronas Activas Sobresalientes Organizando Soluciones

  • Nicole Buccalo, SURJ at Sacred Heart: Showing Up for Racial Justice

  • Magdalena Cornelio, Logrando Juntos

  • Yanet Crisostomo, Logrando Juntos

  • Marisol Hernandez, Las Comadres del Sagrado Corazon

  • Lisa Landry, SOS: Survivors on the Streets

  • Claudia Lopez, Las Comadres del Sagrado Corazon

  • Veronica Orozco, La Mesa Verde network action committee

  • Victor Shklyar, Rapid Response Network of Santa Clara County

  • Ma Soledad Téllez, PASOS