Loushana Roybal Rose

Loushana Roybal Rose is a California born artist working in visual art, music, and the culinary arts. Drawing on touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste, Loushana specializes in community engagements that center around a safe environment for cultural expression. In 1998, she co-founded an all female production company called UMA Productions (Universal Music Awareness) which produced large-scale live concerts and other happenings with numerous high profile artists, musicians, and chefs. In 2004, she earned a B.A. with honors in public art, education, and painting from CCA. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she co-founded Align Gallery located in the heart of Highland Park. She hosts supper clubs featuring health, urban gardening, and farm to table concepts. Most recently, she started the “Mother Garden,” an aqua-ponic garden located at the East Los Angeles home of the Roybal Foundation, named after her grandfather, Congressman Edward R. Roybal (D-CA) and grandmother, Lucille Beserra Roybal and where Loushana serves as a board member. The Roybal family legacy in the fields of health advocacy, social activism, and dedication to the community East Los Angeles, plays a tremendous role in all her work.