Lilly Gonzalez joined the Book Festival staff in September 2015 as Communications Director. She works on the Festival’s website, social media accounts, external communications, and assists with all aspects of Festival planning. Originally from the Rio Grande Valley, she spent the past 14 years living in Chicago. Most recently she worked in public affairs at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She earned both her MFA in creative writing and BS in journalism from Northwestern University.
If FIESTA is San Antonio’s party to celebrate the city’s history and rich diversity, then the San Antonio Book Festival is the tailgate event. Celebrating ideas, books, libraries, and literary culture, the San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) is your chance
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020