Tatiana Garcia-Granados is the co-founder and executive director of the East Park Revitalization Alliance (EPRA), a community-based nonprofit that empowers residents to revitalize the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia through the arts, environment and education. Over the past four years, the organization has planted over 300 trees, built community gardens, facilitated numerous murals throughout the neighborhood, and created and maintained over 13 acres of community-friendly open green space on the site of formerly abandoned vacant lots. EPRA operates an after-school and summer program that focuses on teaching neighborhood youth about the importance of environmental stewardship, physical activity and nutrition. Tatiana was born in Guatemala and worked in the banking industry prior to becoming EPRA's full-time executive director.