The youngest person ever elected to the state Assembly reflects on her work as she battles aggressive cancer.
, the first Latina to serve on the state Assembly, L.A. City Council and L.A. County Board of Supervisors, as among her role models.
In addition, under Montañez’s leadership, the organization took over leadership of Mountains Restoration Trust, since renamed TreePeople Land Trust, to protect more than 3,000 acres of land in the Santa Monica Mountains from development. After growing up in San Fernando, and seeing the disparities between lower-income communities of color like hers and more affluent neighborhoods — dramatic differences in air quality and even in the number of cooling shade trees — fighting for environmental justice became her passion.
He credits her for traveling to Sacramento to make sure a good portion of a state water bond measure would help pay for groundwater cleanup in the San Fernando Valley.
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