Victoria Ferrell-Ortiz

Victoria Ferrell-Ortiz's work centers around approachable planning, the preservation of barrio history in the City of Dallas, artivism, racial equity and education. Victoria is the Executive Director & a Co-Founder of RAYO Planning a 501c3 urban planning nonprofit that is committed to closing the health, wealth and opportunity gap in communities through land use planning, policy creation and cultural preservation. She is a Barrio (Neighborhood) Historian of the Cemento Grande barrio of West Dallas, and Oak Cliff. In 2021 she served as the Co-Chair of the “Nuestro Oak Cliff” Exhibit and producer of the “Nuestro Oak Cliff” Documentary. In 2022 she was recognized by the Dallas Morning News as one of six to watch on the social justice front in Dallas.

Victoria has served as an at-large commissioner in the Arts and Culture Advisory Commission for the City of Dallas and is an alumni of Dallas Truth Racial Healing and Transformation's Racial Equity NOW Cohort.

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