Who We Are

CAVC Staff

CAVC Leadership Team

Susy Lopez-Garica

Susana "Susy" Lopez-Garcia

Executive Director

Susana "Susy" Lopez-Garcia

Susy Lopez-Garcia became the Executive Director of Community Action of Ventura County (CAVC) on January 2, 2020.

Susy started with CAVC in 2014 as a Cal-Fresh outreach staff member. She then became the Medi-Cal outreach team manager while completing her Master of Public Policy & Administration from California Lutheran University at the same time. She then became CAVC’s Manager of Community Services, in which she oversaw agency-wide reporting and compliance with the Community Service Block Grant. She also led Community Development workshops, marketing, and fund development efforts for CAVC.

Susy is a Ventura County native, having been born and raised in Oxnard to immigrant parents from Oaxaca, Mexico. She attended Oxnard High School and then earned a BA in Liberal Studies and Spanish from California State University, Northridge. After graduating, Susy worked for Southern California nonprofits before joining CAVC.

Susy lives in Oxnard with her husband, son, and four dogs. In her free time, she enjoys reading, attending local events, and finding new restaurants to try.

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Fe DeLeon

Fe De Leon

Controller

Fe De Leon

As CAVC’s Controller, Fe De Leon is responsible for overseeing CAVC’s financial statements, general ledger, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and various accounting duties. She prides herself on the accuracy of her work. Fe earned a degree in Business Administration with a major in Accounting from the Philippines School of Business Administration in Manila. She’s also taken accounting courses at Ventura College.

Fe enjoys watching basketball, especially her beloved Los Angeles Clippers. She also lists walking as her favorite exercise.

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Fanni Azueta-Lee

Fanni Azueta

Energy Services Manager

Fanni Azueta-Lee

Fanni Azueta has 17 years of experience working with Community Action of Ventura County. She started in 2005 as a coordinator for the HEAP program, where she assisted families with utility bill payments. Soon after, she was promoted to the Weatherization department, where she ensured the quality of work was consistent with mandated regulations, standards, policies, and procedures at four different municipal levels. She has continued to lead the Weatherization program since and has made a deep impact in the lives of so many Ventura County families when they needed support.

In her free time, she enjoys reading good books and planning trips around the world with her family and friends.

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Maria Ramirez

Maria Ramirez

HEAP Manager

Maria Ramirez

With over 10 years of experience working with Ventura County communities, Maria Ramirez oversees assigned components of the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP). Helping those in need is extremely gratifying for Maria and her team, especially when it comes to offering support for basic needs such as utility bills. Treating the individuals who come to HEAP as people, not merely numbers or data, is a priority for Maria and the HEAP team.

You can find Maria spending quality time with her family and facilitating workshops for her local church in her free time.

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Claudia Lozano

Claudia Lozano

Manager of Community Services

Claudia Lozano

Claudia Lozano is the Community Services Manager for Community Action of Ventura County. Her duties include overseeing the administration of the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) and the programs under the grant, such as the Food Program, Homeless Services, and Community Workshops. Claudia also works for our partner agency MICOP (Mixteco Indigenous Community Organizing Project), where she provides Indigenous Healing modalities and workshops through the Healing the Community program. She currently serves as a board member for the Oxnard Film Society and Friends of Campus Park and is on the Advisory Board for Teatro de Las Americas. In her free time, she loves spending quality time with her family.

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Lorenzo Bislig

Lorenzo Bislig

Facilities & IT Manager

Lorenzo Bislig

Lorenzo Bislig is CAVC’s Facilities Manager. In this role, he has a hand in overseeing grounds maintenance, disaster preparedness, construction management, facilities maintenance engineering, safety and risk management. Lorenzo enjoys spending time with his family and local church, and he also manages his family’s small business – a printing shop – during his time off as its creative consultant.

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Catalina Solis

Development Coordinator

Catalina Solis

Catalina Solis supports CAVC leadership with high-level administrative work. She has supported high-level executives at nonprofits for over 25 years. Before entering the nonprofit sector, she started in printing, where she eventually became an Assistant Plant Manager before entering the nonprofit sphere.

As an active social justice supporter, she has been on the boards of COLOR (Community Organized for Liberty, Opportunity and Respect & VC Cool (Ventura Climate Care), lending her minute-making secretary skills. A collector and seller of 50’s vintage goods, you can find her at the Ventura Fairgrounds Flea Market selling her wares. She is also an inventor, writer, and comedian. You can also find her at local venues of Karaoke, belting out Bill Withers’ tunes!

Catalina considers Ventura her new permanent home, residing here for 25 years, and wants to make sure our way of life is the best it can be. Working for CAVC and helping its mission is a rewarding way to accomplish this!

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