Our Team
Jose Cordón
Poet, entrepreneur, and community organizer Jose Cordon has been performing his poetry for over 10 years. He has been a part of the Monument Impact team for the past 3 years where he has worked with the day labor program, tenant organizing, and most recently the H.O.M.E.S art and culture program. Over the last few years Jose has helped create and develop two art and culture programs in the Bay Area and has recently founded his own organization called Grassroots Poetry. His poetry has been commissioned by the Latino Community Foundation, Google, the California Endowment, the Blue Shield of California Foundation, Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, and many others. In 2019 he was given the Cesar Chavez Spirit award by a local community college. And most recently, Cordon was named the City of Antioch’s Honorary Poet Laureate, received recognition from the state assembly for his work as a community organizer and poet, and had the opportunity to share his poetry at the US Treasury in Washington D.C. Outside of poetry and community organizing, Jose spends most of his time with his Argentine Mastiffs.