In the spring of 2011, McCormack Baron Salazar Project Manager, Monique Chavoya, was selected to receive the Greenlining Institute’s Torchbearer award.  The torchbearer award is for an alumna/us of the Greenlining Institute’s Academy who has continued the organization’s mission of advocacy and working for the betterment of low-income and communities of color in California.

Ms. Chavoya serves as the project manager for McCormack Baron Salazar’s MacArthur Park Metro, a two-phase, affordable, mixed-use Transit Oriented Development in Los Angeles, California.  Prior to joining McCormack Baron Salazar, Ms. Chavoya worked as a Project Manager for East LA Community Corporation, a non-profit organization building affordable housing in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles. She also spent a year working on housing and fair growth policy issues as a Sustainable Development Fellow for the Greenlining Institute in Berkeley, California. Ms. Chavoya holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Latin American Literature from Smith College and a Master of Arts in Urban Planning from UCLA.

The Torchbearer award was presented to Ms. Chavoya on Friday, May 13th at the Greenlining Institute’s 18th Annual Economic Summit Dinner.