About TRLG Chicago

Rozanna Rivera , a Chicago Native  is a proud Alumni of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2017. She also holds a Master of Science in International Public Service from DePaul University (2002).  

Rozanna Founded Turning Red Lines Green (TRLG) Initiative in 2020 alongside Martin Unzueta. Through this initiative, she helped the CCTC cooperative secure a Neighborhood Opportunity  

Rozanna developed TRLG as a social enterprise aimed at addressing food and employment insecurity in North Lawndale. The initiative serves both street vendors and local residents, fostering economic empowerment and bridging neighborhood gaps.  

Rozanna worked to secure and develop TRLG on Vacant Lots between Lawndale and Millard along 16th Street, further advancing her mission of community revitalization and sustainable economic growth.  

 Karen Lehman is an independent food system and leadership consultant. For 14 years, she directed Fresh Taste, a collaborative funder initiative committed to racial and economic equity and focused on changing the way food is grown, processed, distributed, and consumed in the Chicago region to promote healthy land, healthy people, and healthy communities. While there, she catalyzed the formation of the Chicago Region Food System Fund and I-Regen, as well as playing a founding role in other collaboratives including Funders for Regenerative Agriculture. Currently she serves as a strategic advisor to Potlikker Capital and on the steering committee of Funders for Regenerative Agriculture.  Karen has over 40 years of food system experience. She directed both the Food System and Regional Economy programs at The Minnesota Project; Co-Founded and was Co-Director of Youth Farm in Minnesota; and directed the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Food and Agriculture Program. Through this work, she was deeply involved in building trinational networks of farmers with partners from the US, Mexico, and Canada to challenge the premises of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.  She consulted to the Ford Foundation on rural development in Mexico and worked with a family foundation providing funding to campesino-led organizations in Central America.
Karen attended Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government on a fellowship and subsequently was a Senior Associate at Cambridge Leadership
Associates. She continues to maintain an individual and small group leadership
consulting practice, Adaptive Leadership, LLC.

Augusto Aquino is owner of Aquino Farm & Produce. He is an original member

and elected President of the Street Vendors Association of Chicago fighting

against the discrimination of Street Vendors since 2015. Alongside Chicago

Community and Workers Rights he organized the Street Vendors Association

to help lift the ban on Street Vending. Leader of 45 member Street Vendors,

the association helped pass the laws towards the recognition of Street Vendor

as a profession by the City of Chicago. He is one of the original members of

the CCTC Shared Kitchen Workers Cooperative and has facilitated the work

and supporting mission of the Street Vendors Association of Chicago.

Martin is a longtime labor and immigrant rights organizer in Chicago. In

1994, Martin came to Chicago hoping to provide a better education for his

two daughters and start his own small business. He currently serves as the

Executive Director of Chicago Community and Workers Rights (CCWR)

organizing and defending the rights of workers in the workplace. Martin has

been an instrumental consultant for the Street Vendors Association of Chicago

helping lift the ban on Street Vending in 2015, pass the ordinance for “Street

Vendor” to be recognized profession in 2017, and helped develop the Cocina

Compartida de Trabajardores Cooperativitas (CCTC) North Lawndale’s Shared

Kitchen Workers Cooperative in 2020. He is Co-founder of the Turning Red

Lines Green initiative helping bring resources and professional development

to the Street Vendors through Food and Employment Sovereignty. Martina

Unzueta and CCWR helps the Street Vendors through licensing processes

and advocates for them in court along side the Street Vendors Association

of Chicago’s Leadership Board Members.