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One of Council Member Santa Cruz’s passions is using bicycles to create community and mobilize around issues. One of her other passions is helping Tucson’s unsheltered community gain access housing and resources. Join us for an update from the Ward 1 City Council Member Lane Santa Cruz on Tucson’s homelessness crisis, and stay for the two-way conversation on just when do businesses and the City talk to each other? Who do you talk to, when, why, and how? And what do you want the City to hear? Bring thoughts and questions for a robust fireside chat with Lane Santa Cruz (recent beneficiary of a first ever Queer Fam Fundraiser!).

Plus ample networking, raffle prizes, and more. Our gratitude goes out to our sponsor Bloom Wealth Alliance. We can't wait to see you there!

About Lane Santa Cruz
Lane is a second-generation Tucsonan, born and raised in the Southside. Her parents both emigrated from Sonora, Mexico and met in their early twenties at the El Rio Neighborhood Center. After graduating from Desert View High School, she left for a university in Alabama on a tennis scholarship, then returned home to work her way through courses at the University of Arizona. There she earned her PhD in Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies.

She continues to teach courses at the U of A’s Department of Mexican American Studies and College of Education. Before running for office, Lane worked as a council aide for Ward 1 and spent over a decade working on issues related to sexual/gender violence, food justice, migrant rights, DIY bicycle mechanics, and ethnic studies. Lane is also a mother of four children, ages 4 to 14.