Our Staff

Inquilinos Unidos has a skilled and dedicated staff whose job is to identify, train, and unite tenant leaders to build sustainable groups and mount organizing campaigns in slum buildings with severe habitability violations, oppose unfair and exploitative rental housing practices, and advocate for the preservation and expansion of affordable housing and rent control.

All IU staff is bilingual and well versed in tenant rights, current housing policy, local ordinances, and regulations. IU organizers have an intimate knowledge of the communities they serve with particular expertise in the breaking down of cultural and language barriers within the Spanish-speaking community.

Meet the Team

  • Georgina Serrano

    Community Organizer

    (213) 483-7497 Ext. 204

    gserrano@inquilinosunidos.org

    Georgina assumed Inquilino Unidos’ new position of Community Organizer on February 22, 2018.  Her responsibilities include building power by organizing, educating, and attending to the community’s needs. Georgina brings her dedicated community organizing experience, her activist spirit, and strong trainings skills from her previous work at T.R.U.S.T. (Tenemos que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra) South LA, Esperanza Community Housing Co. (ECHC), and the California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC). She embraces and engages diverse multicultural communities in the effort to create a space for Harmony and Unity.

    Georgina received an AA degree in Community Organizing and Economic Development from Los Angeles Trade Tech College (LATTC). She has two sons, Joe, age 26 and Pablo, age 22.

  • Jacie Odiver

    Tenant Outreach Assistant

    Jacie joined Inquilinos Unidos as a Tenant Outreach Assistant to help her community’s housing issues. She has previously volunteered at the Good Samaritan Hospital during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and served as a member of Mayor Garcetti’s Youth Council. As a Public Health Major at California State University, Los Angeles, Jacie is motivated and has a passion to assist her community with safe, decent, and affordable housing. Even as a full-time student and a consistent Dean’s Lister, she continues to spread her knowledge of tenants’ rights to uplift tenants experiencing harassment, unsafe living conditions, and more. In the future, she hopes to keep helping others by pursuing a career in the field of Law.