Jose Richard Aviles

Jose Richard Aviles is the Arts and Cultural Strategy Lead, and Transportation Analyst for the Othering and Belonging Institute. As part of the Community Power and Policy Partnerships team, they support government agencies and partners with community organizations by providing trainings, technical assistance, and evaluation support centering lived experience, vision, and self-determination of the communities most impacted by transit inequities. They also lead the research on Radical Imagination as a Tool for Belonging as part of the Arts and Cultural Strategy programming. Aviles draws inspiration from their involvement with the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles and participation in other social justice movements like marriage equality.