Yes on Proposition 10 – Damien Goodmon (podcast)

Damien Goodmon is the Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Crenshaw Subway Coalition (“CSC”). CSC and it’s successor organization the Citizens’ Campaign to Fix the Expo Rail Line seeks to empower stakeholder groups in the area of Crenshaw-Leimert Park-Hyde Park and highlight the issues of equitable and community-centered transportation planning in the pursuit of racial and economic justice for South Los Angeles. As a result of the organization’s efforts, over $1.5 billion additional dollars have been invested in the mass transit infrastructure of Southwest Los Angeles, including the Leimert Park Village and Farmdale stations and the Crenshaw-LAX light rail line. Damien Wesley Clark Goodmon is a graduate of Loyola High School and studied at the University of Washington, where he was a player on the nationally ranked Huskies football team. A fourth-generation Angelino and descendant of Charles and L.M. Blodgett, Mr. Goodmon currently lives in Leimert Park, where he is a past Co-Chair of the community’s neighborhood council. His family has lived in South Central Los Angeles for over 100 years. He is the author of the Get LA Moving plan. He has been trained by the Midwest Academy, Camp Wellstone, and 21^st Century Democrats. He is a recipient of the 2008 LAUSD Trailblazer Award for “championing the rights of the masses of all American children,” the 2012 New Frontier Democratic Club Community Service Award, the 2013 Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles Drum Major for Justice Award, the 2013 Black Women for Wellness Soldier Award, and the 2017 L.A. Urban Policy Roundtable Spirit of King Award.