John is responsible for leading Urban Strategies collaborative efforts focused on serving under-resourced communities in the Los Angeles region. He has expertise in conducting outreach to diverse organizations and community members working across multiple fields to accomplish shared goals. For the last 11 years he has managed partnerships with more than 50 faith and community-based organizations in Los Angeles that have served over 30,000 families. John has led the development of Project With, an innovative approach to teen pregnancy intervention with justice-involved youth that utilizes the power of storytelling by system impacted facilitators. Connect with John on LinkedIn. 

Julz grew up in Northeast Los Angeles and has developed the processes and systems that keep the Los Angeles based Urban Strategies LLC collaborative efforts organized over the last 6 years.  She has overseen the development of Project With quality control processes including setting up of systems, databases, research support, forms and technical support for our facilitators delivering the program.