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.
Danielle Fox
Danielle Fox uses she/her pronouns and is currently an MLIS student at UCLA, focusing on how public libraries can contribute to and strengthen hyperlocal mutual aid networks and information ecosystems. Previously, she worked as the Community Engagement Editor at USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism, where she worked with California journalists and their partnering newsrooms who had Fellowships with the Center to create community engagement plans alongside their investigative and enterprise reporting projects. Formerly, Danielle worked for NPR member stations, including Philadelphia’s WHYY and San Bernardino’s KVCR, as a Morning Edition producer/reporter, community engagement producer, and youth media instructor. Danielle also does mutual aid volunteer work with Street Watch LA with and for unhoused neighbors in Los Angeles’s Mid-City Area. Danielle joined the Fresnoland board in 2021.
Tim Haydock
Tim is the Director of Communications at the Youth Leadership Institute. Tim is a Fresno native, a former journalism instructor at Fresno Pacific University, and has served as a founding board member at Fresnoland since 2018.
BoNhia Lee
BoNhia Lee is a communications specialist at Fresno State writing about student and faculty success, research and other university accomplishments. She was previously a journalist for 15 years, most recently with The Fresno Bee. BoNhia contributed to The Bee’s “Living in Misery,” special report on substandard housing that launched citywide debate in Fresno, California, and earned a George F. Gruner Award for public service. In 2020, she was a contributor to “Staring Down the Tiger: Stories of Hmong American Women,” an anthology about Hmong women, their identity and breaking through cultural barriers. Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, BoNhia graduated from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
She is married with three children.
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.