Irene Calimlim

Community development director

Irene’s passion is to elevate grassroots organizing efforts, build youth leaders, and improve the build and social conditions in redlined communities. She grew up in Stockton first moving into the Little Manila neighborhood at the age of seven and now works as a Community Development Director for Little Manila Rising to work on strategies to revitalize and preserve the culture and history of the Little Manila neighborhood. Her past work experiences include working in rural India with the Comprehensive Rural Health Project to learn about their model of community empowerment, with Greenlining Institute’s Health Equity Program, with Reinvent South Stockton Coalition on their collective impact strategy, and starting up the Health & Environmental Justice program at Fathers & Families of San Joaquin. She attended Stanford University where she obtained a BA in Human Biology focused on health in underserved communities and received her dual Master in Public Health and City Planning at UC Berkeley.