Monica Garza is the Director of Community Wellness for the YMCA of Greater San Antonio, where she works towards advancing healthy living in the San Antonio community. Monica is the lead organizer of Síclovía, an event that provides a fun-filled day of health and physical activity to over 70,000 attendees of all ages. She also oversees the Y's Corporate Membership Sales and Senior Programs. Prior to her current position, she served as Executive Director of the D.R. Semmes YMCA. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University, has served as President of EWI of San Antonio, completed the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Alexander Briseno Leadership Development Program and has been asked to speak at multiple conferences including the Open Streets Summit in Los Angeles. In 2013 she was selected as a San Antonio Business Journal "40 Under 40" Rising Star.
This fall, Síclovía is headed back to Broadway, and the YMCA of Greater San Antonio is excited to announce a new spin on Síclovía’s traditional route. At the September 28 Síclovía event, attendees can look forward to exploring San Antonio’s
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020