Teto is Jobs to Move America’s Western States Director. He joined JMA as the California Organizer in 2016 and has been part of comprehensive campaigns to secure commitments from Southern California transit agencies to transition their fleets to 100% zero-emissions by 2030; win the adoption of job-creating policies and practices in public procurement contracts; and negotiate legally enforceable community benefits agreements with manufacturing companies to ensure that hiring, training and recruitment practices prioritized historically underrepresented and marginalized populations, including JMA’s most recent CBA with North America’s largest bus manufacturer.
Prior to JMA, Teto spent a decade directing employment and training programs across Southern California, overseeing the operations of multiple job and business resource centers and supporting worker and community organizing as a workforce partner. The product of two Salvadoran immigrants and a lifelong Angeleno, Teto is the first of his family to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees and has dedicated his career and activism to leveling the playing field for working families to achieve a high quality of life, regardless of the systemic inequities that make that a struggle for far too many.