Sahara Huazano

Alianza Coachella Valley, Director of Programs and Strategy

Sahara Huazano is the Director of Programs and Strategy for Alianza Coachella Valley. While at Alianza, Sahara has increased youth and resident influence in decision-making spaces in the Coachella Valley in issues of Environmental injustice and education equity. Sahara was born and raised in Mecca, CA, an incorporated agriculture community in the Coachella Valley. She completed her undergraduate studies in Environmental Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2014. She focused her studies on the systemic challenges of rural communities through an environmental justice lens and completed a one-year research thesis, “Resort Development and Environmental Injustice: A Historical Analysis of Land Use, Race, and Class in the Coachella Valley, CA (the 1940s-1990s).” Her mission is to continue building bridges between people in her community and outside her community so they can work together to make the Coachella Valley a place for people to thrive.