Richard Xavier Corral, MPP

1. 1. •Richard Xavier Corral is CEO of Corral Consulting, a private consulting firm that provides capacity building technical assistance to non-profit, for-profit, government, community based and philanthropic organizations. Corral Consulting offers unique expertise around improving health and human services for children and families, developing community-centered schools that link to local service providers and designing, implementing and sustaining large-scale community improvement projects. Richard received a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree in public policy from the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Richard has over five years of experience providing project management for the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. councils. Richard's general research interests include school readiness, education and community development.

- Government/Community Relations and Project Design 

Elad Marish

1. 1. •Elad Marish received his Masters in Public Health with an emphasis on Coastal Water Quality from UCLA in 2003.  He then advanced to candidacy in the Environmental Science & Engineering Doctorate Program at UCLA in 2005.  He has worked with the State Water Resources Control Board on coastal water quality and with various environmental non-profit organizations.  He specializes in holistic solutions to environmental problems and is familiar with sustainable models for site remediation, restoration, and design as well as permaculture.  Elad is also a professional audio engineer and has composed and engineered numerous albums and songs for TV and film.

-Environmental & Sustainable Design/Engineering

James Mathers

-Creative Direction/ Artist in Residence/ Programming

1. 1. •James Mathers was born in 1965 in Los Angeles. At 17, he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a painter. He soon came to the attention of Andy Warhol, who helped him exhibit his work in a one-man show in 1983. This led to exhibitions on both coasts and in Europe. In 1996, he moved to Dublin, Ireland and co- founded an anarchist bookstore called The Garden of Delight. Before returning to LA, James wrote a film about Dublin's horse-riding street gangs called Crushproof (1998). He then tried his hand at being a writer/director with King of LA (2000), starring Saul Williams. For the next six years, he worked as an activist within the Topanga artist community.  He has also produced several short books of poetry and comics, such as The Children's Guide to Astral Projection (2003), The Last Nowhere (2005), Craplexity (2006), Voyage of the Timeship Medusa (2006) and Institute for Acausal Studies (2006).

Courage De Leon

-Project Coordination/ Multi- Media Communications /Fundraising

1. 1. •Courage De Leon has studied at both the prestigious Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Washington D.C and Cornish College of the Arts.  After helping build the company and brand at Amazon.com, Courage relocated to Los Angeles where she hit the ground running in the production industry.  She has cast and produced feature films and been on the production team of several television shows for TLC including Junkyard Mega Wars and Faking It.  She has served as both a Production Accountant and Production Manager, managing and reporting budgets.  As a project manager she has worked for Walt Disney Records specifically in Media Relations and for Marilyn Manson in support of his recent release "Eat Me, Drink Me".  She has several years of experience galvanizing people in the entertainment and media arenas.

contact:  richard@lteap.org 

contact:  elad@lteap.org 

contact:  james@lteap.org 

contact:  courage@lteap.org 

1. 1. Who We Are:
      

   2. Community Residents
      

   3. Artists
      

   4. Environmentalists
      

   5. Policy Makers
      

   6. Activists
      

   7. Film Makers
      

   8. Recording Artists
      

   9. Researchers
      

   10. Writers
       

   11. Teachers

1. 1. We are a Non-Profit Community Project to redevelop Lower Topanga Canyon into an Eco-Arts park through an inclusive, community driven, collaborative process that fosters inquiry, discovery and collective planning.

1. 1. The Technology Initiatives and Applications Foundation
      

   2. Karl Kras- Architect
      

   3. Bloom Cafe
      

   4. Billy Zane
      

   5. Saul Williams
      

The Lower Topanga Eco-Arts Park is a non-profit project of the Technology Initiatives and Applications Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity whose mission is to stimulate the conception, development, and implementation of, and itself conceive, develop, and implement, technological solutions to better the quality of life for people, in the areas of education, employment, the environment, health, life essentials, community services, government services.

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The Lower Topanga Eco-Arts Park is a Non-Profit Project of the Technology Initiatives and Applications Foundation.

Volunteers- Archangels of Sustainbility

1. 1. •Growing up in Chicago my family lived a lifestyle that balanced a love of nature with the rush of city life. That lead me to a pursue a career in architecture. I received my Bachelors of Architecture and Urban Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with studio travels to Paris to study the great urban centers of Europe.  Committing to graduate studies, I moved to Los Angeles and received a Masters of Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SciARC). Since then I have worked on many institutional, commercial and residential buildings with award winning architectural firms in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Drawing on my past experience, I started kras design studio in 2007 with a focus on building sustainable structures.

-Architect

Karl Kras