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We established Mountain View CLT so that working class families, are able to control, steward, and govern our own housing in ways that meet the needs of our community. Although there are many versions of community ownership of housing, our specific vision for a community land trust will:

Acquire and preserve naturally affordable housing in our community that prevents displacement, and provides long-term stability and affordability with community control.

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Leadership Council

Mountain View CLT is an extension and outgrowth of the work MV Solidarity Fund. The MV CLT leadership council decided to form a small, 3 person board to support MV CLT’s work.

  • Marilú Cuesta is an immigrant from Mexico and has the joy and privilege of raising a family in Mountain View, CA, for the past 22 years. Inspired by her parents' work as rural teachers in Santiago and Chazumba, Oaxaca, she continues their example by advocating for equitable education and healthcare, and for affordable and decent housing for the community.

    Over the past 20 years, Marilu has been involved in various community groups: the English Language Learning Advisory Committee (ELAC and DELAC), the Community Action Team (CAT), the Family Engagement Institute (FEI), and the Mountain View Tenants Coalition (MVTC). Marilu currently volunteers with the Latino Parent Outreach (LPO) group at Mountain View High School in California and with the Parent Voices Organization in Santa Clara County.

    Marilu Cuesta is a co-founder of the Mountain View Solidarity Fund (FSMV) and the Mountain View Community Land Trust (MVCLT).

    Two special moments include graduating from the City of Mountain View, CA Civic Leadership Academy in 2019 and graduating from the course as a Promotora, to contribute to community development, health, and access to care systems, in February 2025.

Marilu Cuesta Flores

  • Azucena Castañón is originally from Guatemala. She has three children and over 16 years of leadership and service to the community. Her leadership began when her son first entered elementary school. She was a collaborator in school activities, president of the District English Learner Advisory Council, member of the PTA, and Vice President of Dual Immersion activities. As the years passed, she became an active member of the Mountain View Tenants Coalition and part of the Community Action Team in Mountain View. She graduated from Mountain View's first Ambassador Academy in 2017. Currently, she remains involved at Los Altos High School, where she is the school council representative and represents at the district level with the Family Partnership Council.

    Throughout the years, she has obtained many diplomas from Foothill College for taking courses in different subjects and has received various awards from workshops.

    She is very proud of her children. Her daughters were cheerleaders and went to national competitions where they placed second, third, and fourth in Florida. She is also proud that all of her children hold high school diplomas.

Azucena Castañón

  • Paula Pérez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. She earned her law degree from the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, a Certificate in Child Development from De Anza College, and a Certificate as a Community Health Promoter from Community Health Partnership (CHP). She is a graduate of the Mountain View Civic Leadership Academy.

    Paula is an immigrant leader whose mission is to serve and stand in solidarity with others. She is committed to supporting the most vulnerable communities to build a more equitable and just society. Paula is a co-founder of the Mountain View Solidarity Fund (FSMV), a grassroots organization. As a co-founder, she has provided support and hope to the most vulnerable families, accessing local, federal, and philanthropic resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Her passion for education led her to become involved in the Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD) ELAC and DELAC committees. She consistently advocates for equitable, inclusive, and accessible education for all students. She serves on various committees, including the Los Altos High School (LAHS) Site Council, the Early Childhood Local Planning Council (LPC) at the Santa Clara County Office of Education, the Latinx Advisory Committee with Senator Josh Becker, and the Parent Voices Santa Clara Committee.

    In addition, she has collaborated with the Family Engagement Institute at Foothill College (FEI) and community organizations such as the Community Action Team (CAT), where she represented the education department for several years. She was also active in the Mountain View Tenants Coalition (MVTC), actively participating in the passing of rent control in 2016, a significant achievement for Mountain View tenants.

    Some of her accomplishments and recognitions include: Certificate of Recognition from Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, selected by the City of Mountain View to receive the Proclamation of National Volunteer Week, recognition from FEI for her commitment to equity and inspirational leadership, recognized as a 2022 Woman of Persistence by the League of California Cities Women’s Caucus, and named among the 101 leaders of Silicon Valley by De.Coded: A Human Atlas of Silicon Valley.

Paula Perez

  • Nadia Mora is originally from Nicaragua. (Afro-Caribbean, from the indigenous peoples, Sutiaba, white). With extensive experience in training, she has developed training and leadership programs for community building.

    In 2008, she moved to California, where she has served as part of the Strategic Planning team in the Community Development Program aimed at the Hispanic community in northern and central California. She seeks to support social justice through the integration of communities of color and the transformation of the housing system; driving the community to create lasting change for immigrant communities and youth in CA.

    Her professional career and community advocacy leadership spans for more than 40 years. She obtained her Specialty in Research Methodologies and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua.


    She is an active member of the processes in collaboration with: Mountain View Solidarity Fund (FSMV), Mountain View Community Land Trust, (MVCLT), as Co-founder. Community Action Team CAT, City of Mountain View Civic Leadership Academy Ambassador Program, Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation, LAMVCF, SV@Home, South Bay Community Land Trust SBCLT, Latino Community Foundation LCF, San Francisco Foundation SFF, Urban Habitat, BCLI Program.

Nadia Mora

  • Sonia Sequeiros is from La Paz, Bolivia, and immigrated to the United States when she was 17 years old. She has been living in Mountain View for over 20 years and has two sons.


    While living in Mountain View and raising her children, she obtained her Associate Degree in Science and Early Childhood Education from Foothill College. Sonia is an active mom who has volunteered in her children's schools, serving as a language liaison in the PTA and volunteering in the classroom. 

    Sonia has also been involved in various community groups, such as the ambassador program of the Mountain View Spanish Civic Academy, Community Action Team, Mountain View Tenants Coalition, and Fondo de Solidaridad de Mountain View. She is thrilled to begin working with the Latino Parent Outreach of Mountain View High School this school year. 

Sonia Sequeiros

Olga Melo

  • Olga Melo was born in Veracruz, Mexico. Her community work began 20 years ago with concern for the poor educational achievement of Latino children. She became involved in the education of her children and the community. She served as president of ELAC (English Language Advisory Committee) and representative of DELAC (District English Language Advisory Committee), where she advocated for Latino children.

    Her accomplishments include co-founding the Community Action Team (CAT) to promote health, education, and services in Mountain View. She is currently the president of CAT and a community health promoter and educator for Santa Clara County. Olga helped form the Mountain View Tenants Coalition to support rent control through Measure V (Fair Rent and Community Stabilization Act) in November 2016. She graduated from the City of Mountain View's first Spanish-language Civic Leadership Academy in 2017. This experience empowered her to become a bridge between the city and the community. In 2021, due to the pandemic and community needs, Olga, in collaboration with other women leaders, created the FSMV to support vulnerable families in accessing resources.

    Other personal and leadership achievements include: SD13 Woman of the Year 2025, selected among 101 Change Agent Leaders in the Silicon Valley area; Child Development Certificate, De Anza College; member of Senator Josh Becker's Latinx Advisory Committee, Lead Safe Homes Program Community Advisory Group, and Latino Health Assessment Steering Committee; Urban Habitat Commissions Leadership Institute Certificate; CHAC Community Leadership and Advanced Community Leadership Certificate; Panelist, 2023 Women's Leadership and Policy Summit; Honoree, League of California Cities 2022 Women of Persistence; Cal Cities Women Caucus Women of Persistence 2002 Certificate, and FSMV Washington, D.C. representative (meetings with government leaders).

  • Dora Isabel Salazar was born and raised in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Nayarit, Mexico. Despite growing up in poverty, she persevered and earned a scholarship to pursue a business degree as an executive secretary. Together with her husband, she fought to ensure their three children could complete their education and prepare for life. Today, she is blessed to be called a grandmother to three granddaughters.

    Dora Isabel is an active leader and member of her community. She has received recognition for her leadership. Along with six other women leaders, she founded the Mountain View Solidarity Fund (MVSF), which provides support and hope to the most vulnerable families in accessing resources. She has been part of major achievements in organizations such as PIA Faith Interaction and working with young leaders to build the Teen Center recreational space. She was part of the Measure V Rent Control struggle with the Mountain View Tenant Coalition for a just and dignified community. For over 20 years, she has been an active volunteer at St. Athanasius Church and has completed holistic courses to address her physical and emotional health. Her motto is "unity is strength with trust, love, and service."

    Dora Isabel is always willing to give her best for the good of others. Her best qualities are the beauty she sees in the darkest places and her communication skills, and with that power, she helps people within her community.

Isabel Salazar

Capacity Building

Given the centering of working class, immigrant women in this work, they will continue to be the heart and soul of the organization and lead the work. Furthermore, they have been participating in various capacity building and technical assistance programs through Urban Habitat, SV@Home, CA Community Land Trust Network, and SF CLT’s CLT Capacity Building Collaborative as they transition into this new phase of leadership. The have also been supported by Evergreen Collective and California Strategies as contractors and in leadership development.

Our Beginnings

The Mountain View Community Land Trust emerged from community work initiated through the Mountain View Solidarity Fund, which began in 2020 under the fiscal sponsorship of the Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation (LAMVCF). The support received from the LAMVCF during that formative period was fundamental in strengthening community leadership and developing the organizational capacity that sustains our work today. Currently, the Mountain View Community Land Trust operates as an independent, community-led organization and continues to build strategic partnerships to advance permanently affordable and just housing solutions.

Learn More About Their Transformative Work Here: LAMVCF.org

Board of Directors

Mountain View CLT is an extension and outgrowth of the work MV Solidarity Fund. The MV CLT leadership council decided to form a small, 3 person board to support MV CLT’s work.

Maria Muñoz Yepez

  • Maria Muñoz Yepez is a first-generation Latina who was born in México and grew up in Mountain View. Over the past 14 years, Maria has done extensive service and work with organizations in Santa Clara County and abroad that serve children, families, and communities. She hopes to continue finding ways to work with community organizations in the areas of education and community development. 

  • Jacky Rivera is a community organizer and advocate working for over 10 years on issues of food sovereignty, dignified housing for all and workers' rights from the Bay Area to the Central Valley. Currently, she is the San Joaquin Valley Community Ownership Program Coordinator for the California Community Land Trust Network (CACLTN) based in Madera, CA. She is also a founding member and the previous Operational Co-Director of South Bay Community Land Trust in San Jose, CA - incorporated in 2019. She participated in local tenants rights advocacy as a renter herself in San Jose from 2013 - 2020 and in issues of food sovereignty and food access through her paid work in La Mesa Verde at Sacred Heart Community Service. 

    She holds a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences with minors in Global Health, Globalization, 

    Ethnicity & Development and Inequality Studies from Cornell University. Jacky's passion for land-use, community development and justice is inspired by her upbringing in the agriculturally-dense areas of Ventura and Madera, California. 

Jacky Rivera

Anthony Chang

  • Anthony Chang is the son of Chinese immigrant small business owners and has spent 20+ years working in economic opportunity and environmental sustainability in communities of color. Prior to Manzanita Capital Collective, Anthony helped start and build Kitchen Table Advisors (KTA), a nonprofit that fuels economic viability and thriving livelihoods for a multi-racial next generation of sustainable small farms and ranches. During his last couple years at KTA, he participated in POC-led collaboratives stewarding and governing their own capital (such as The People's Land Fund, Equitable Food Oriented Development Collaborative, and the LIFE / Open Letter group); worked with foundations on aligning grants and investments with their values; and facilitated integrated capital and technical assistance for farmer owned food hubs for food and land justice projects. Prior to Kitchen Table Advisors, he spent 15+ years channeling capital to small business owners while in leadership roles at community development financial institutions (CDFIs) like Accion Opportunity Fund and California FarmLink. Anthony also is a Castanea Fellow; previously served on the board of RSF Social Finance and Common Future.