Pati Navalta PobletePati Navalta Poblete is a longtime San Francisco Bay Area journalist, previously serving as Editorial Writer and Columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, where she was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her editorial series on the ned for foster care reform in California. She later worked as the Asia Regional Director for an international organization that works with national governments and intergovernmental agencies on shaping sustainability policies. She is the author of The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents of America (2006, Heyday Books). Today Pati is Executive Director of the Robby Poblete Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Through its gun buyback program, the foundation takes unwanted and potentially dangerous guns out of circulation and works with artists to transform them into pieces of art used to raise awareness about gun violence. The foundation also provides vocational programs to individuals and communities affected by violent crime. She lives in Fairfield, CA. Read More Read Less