About Us

About Us

Our Team

Picture of Alfredo Aguero by a flag

Alfredo Aguero

Alfredo Aguero is a founder of Padres Empoderando Padres En Educacion Especial (PEPEE) and a long time community organizer on special education in the Inland Empire.

Gloria Perez-Stewart

Gloria Perez Stewart is an Attorney at Law at GPS Law Office, PC.  She is the President and Board Chair at Peoples College of Law.  She was a Community Organizer at Latina Mami and former Executive Director/CEO at Community Lawyers, Inc. 

Leroy Moore

Leroy F. Moore Jr., Founder of the Krip-Hop Nation.  Since the 1990s, has been a key member of Poor Magazine that started with a column “Illin-N-Chillin” for POOR Magazine then onto a founding member of Poor Magazine’s Homefulness and Decolonize Academy, their school.   Moore is one of the founding members of National Black Disability and activist around police brutality against people with disabilities.  Leroy has started and helped start organizations like Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization to Sins Invalid to Krip-Hop Nation.  His cultural work includes film documentary, Where Is Hope, Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities, spoken-word CDs, poetry books and children’s book, Black Disabled Art History 101 published by Xochitl Justice Press.  Leoy is an original creator of Poor Press of Poor Magazine that has publish his books since the late 1990’s including his graphic novel,  Krip-Hop Graphic Novel Issue 1: Brown Disabled Young Woman Super Hereo Brings Disability Justice to Hip- Hop was published by Poor Press 2019 and 2020 under Poor Press Leroy also published Black Disabled Ancestors.  Moore has traveled internationally networking with other disabled activists and artists.  Moore has written, sang and collaborated to do music videos on Black disabled men.

Sunjay Smith

Sunjay Smith is the founder of Crip Justice which organizes around police violence against peoples with disabilities

Our Partners

Crip Justice

Crip Justice educates and mobilizes around the intersections of disability and policing. We aim to create systems that care for people with disabilities that do not isolate them from their communities and that are based on respect for their autonomy.  We strive for a world in which people with disabilities are free from the violence of policing and incarceration in all of its forms.

GPS Law Office, PC

Disability rights are civil rights. Our office provides legal representation for children with disabilities. We provide assistance primarily in the areas of Special Education, Disability Services, and Special Needs Trusts. We have a deep commitment to helping families within our community and to disability justice.

Krip-Hop Nation

Krip-Hop Nation’s Mission is to educate the music, media industries and general public about the talents, history, rights and marketability of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities. Krip-Hop Nation’s main objective is to get the musical talents of hip-hop artists with disabilities into the hands of media outlets, educators, and hip-hop, disabled and race scholars, youth, journalists and hip-hop conference coordinators.

National Black Disability Coalition

NBDC is the nation’s organization for all Black disabled people. Membership and partners includes Black disabled organizations, disabled people, parents, family members, faith based, non-profits, and academic and policy leaders. Founded in 1990, in response to the need for Black disabled people to organize around mutual concerns, NBDC is dedicated to examining and improving; community leadership, family inclusion, entrepreneurship, civil rights, service delivery systems, education and information and Black disabled identity and culture through the lenses of ableism and racism.

POOR magazine

POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit,arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe.

All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, landlessness, indigenous resistance, disability and race locally and globally.