Miguel Arambula
Miguel is a manager in the real estate development department at Self-Help Enterprises, a non-profit affordable housing developer in the Central Valley. A Fresno native, Miguel boomeranged home after teaching secondary school internationally. Miguel sits on a number of housing related boards including the Central Fresno Neighborhood Trust, South Tower Community Land Trust, Southwest Fresno Development Corporation, and the Eco Village Project. An avid reader who loves to engage in spirited discussion, Miguel has served on the board of Fresnoland since 2022.
Christine Barker
Christine is the executive director of Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries. She is a Fresno native and joined the Fresnoland board of directors in 2021.
Amber Crowell
Dr. Amber Crowell is Associate Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Center for Community Voices at California State University, Fresno. Her areas of expertise include residential segregation, social inequality, housing and evictions, and race and racism. She has published several articles and a book on these topics and has received several grants to support her research on residential segregation and housing and her work alongside the community to address social inequality in the San Joaquin Valley. She moved to Fresno from Texas in 2016, where she planted roots. She and her husband have two children, both born and being raised in Fresno. Amber joined the Fresnoland board in 2022.
Kimberly Gibson
Dr. Kimberly Gibson is a researcher at the Valley Institute for Sustainability, Technology, and Agriculture (VISTA) at UC Merced. She studies inclusive innovation in agricultural technology and climate adaptation. Born and raised in Fresno, her work is rooted in the Central Valley and guided by a deep commitment to the region’s people, land, and future. Prior to starting her academic career, Kimberly worked in nonprofit management consulting in San Francisco and taught English in Yucatán, México through Proyecto Itzaes, a nonprofit community education organization where she now serves on the Board. In 2025, she also joined the Board of Fresnoland, whose reporting she has long admired.
Michael Manjarrez
Michael Manjarrez is an investment advisor with Whelan Financial. He joined the Fresnoland board of directors in 2025.
Mike Osegueda
Mike Osegueda is all about building community — whether getting thousands of people in Fresno to rediscover their downtown, helping food businesses find new customers or connecting businesses in meaningful ways.
You may also know him as Mike Oz, dating back to his days as a columnist for The Fresno Bee and the lead writer for FresnoBeehive.com. Or as a national baseball writer for Yahoo Sports, where he hosted a popular video series called “Old Baseball Cards” and covered seven World Series.
These days, Mike is fully immersed in Fresno again. He’s the founder/president of Fresno Street Eats, a mobile food and events community that produces dozens of pop-ups all over town each week, and powers annual events like Taco Truck Throwdown and FresYes Fest. Fresno Street Eats works with more than 70 food trucks and has valuable community partnerships with the likes of Fresno State Athletics, Fresno Grizzlies, Tioga Sequoia Brewing Co. and many others.
Mike also hosts Ozmosis on New Rock 104.1, a weekly new-music show that airs at 7 p.m. every Sunday. He joined the Fresnoland board in 2022, and also serves on the boards of the Downtown Fresno Foundation and the Clovis Culinary Center.
Kathleen Schock
Dr. Kathleen Schock is an instructor at Fresno City College, where she leads the journalism program and serves as the adviser of The Rampage, FCC’s student-run media organization. Before her career in education, Kathleen worked as a broadcast journalist and in public relations. Her community involvement includes serving on the Journalism Association of Community Colleges board and the Institute for Media and Public Trust at Fresno State advisory committee. She joined the Fresnoland board of directors in 2024.
