Reymundo Juan Armendariz

Reymundo Armendariz is the Senior Policy Associate with our Youth Justice team. Reymundo leads our work engaging justice system stakeholders such as service providers, and organizes youth advocacy groups and other grassroots groups to implement youth justice policy reforms. 

Reymundo has worked with youth in the legal and court system for 25 years through the Restorative Justice Project in Santa Clara County as well as coordinating youth employment and youth mentorship programs for youth impacted by system involvement. Reymundo implemented rites of passage and cultural based programs in the Santa Clara and Alameda County youth facilities. Reymundo led advocacy campaigns against Prop 21 in 2000 as well as campaigns against policy brutality and gang violence in 2013 and 2018. Reymundo is an adept and accomplished organizer who has a long history of advocacy in the South Bay Area. 

Reymundo and his family have over 6 decades of history of organizing in the Chicano/Mexicano/Latino community. He was brought up in the United Farm Workers Movement, being the child of a Chicana UFW organizer, he and his family led and participated in numerous campaigns throughout the 1970s and 1980s. His family has also had key roles in organizing campaigns for immigrants rights and gang interventions for youth throughout Santa Clara County. Reymundo cofounded a Latino based organization serving Latino youth and families in South Santa Clara County, established in 2011. He is a father of two children and is married to his partner of 25 years.