Tina Calderon

Tina Calderon is Gabrielino Tongva, Chumash, Yoeme & Chicana. Tina started working with Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous People as a community advocate in 2020. She joined SPI as the Ocean Protectors Programs Director and the Indigenous Youth Environmental Justice: Homeboy Industries Program Lead in 2022— an extension of her pre-existing relationship with Homeboy Industries. Tina’s passion for sacred waters and devotion to speaking up for the rights and protection of eyoohiinkem moomve (our ocean relatives) is expressed through her leadership of the Ocean Protectors Program, which focuses on issues affecting the health and well-being of moomat (the ocean).