Vanessa Ortiz recently graduated from Trinity University (2014) with a degree in Anthropology. Previously, she was the Trinity University SA2020 Mellon Fellow with the San Antonio Housing Authority working on improving access to parks and green spaces for San Antonio residents. She will soon be starting a Master of Public Health program at the University of Texas School of Public Health. In her spare time, she enjoys running, exploring new San Antonio spots, and watching Law and Order: SVU marathons.
By Vanessa Ortiz, SA2020 Mellon Fellow at SAHA Post 11 | Series Archive As a future Master in Public Health student, I find parks exciting. Not only are they beautiful additions to our city, they also provide many free opportunities to engage in physical
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