Zoot currently serves as Interim Executive Director for Pasadena Heritage. Come to our events at the beautiful Blinn House or our Bridge Party on July 19.

Zoot will lead a second Leadership Training Program for Jericho Road Pasadena in the fall. See FEEDBACK from our last training.

Zoot will, once again, be leading Arts in Corrections programs at SATF-Corcoran and Avenal State Prisons through The Muckenthaler Prison Arts Program and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Zoot teaches a program using theatre to help inmates better tell their story for parole hearings, job interviews, and family reunification- three critical factors in success after prison.

Zoot’s Newest Book is out! How do organizations grow in a recession? small to LARGE: Growing Social Impact Organizations Against All Odds from Kendall Hunt Publishers (Book Tour ongoing). He will be the keynote speaker at Dana Point for a non-profit symposium on May 23.

501(c)3(b)(s) Podcast SEASON 5 has ended. Catch up!

Zoot teaches a Certificate in Government Leadership course at Cal Poly Pomona. We just completed this semester and will be back in the fall.

Member of Rotary Club of Altadena (Past-President of the Fullerton Club), Meeting on Thursdays at noon at The Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, $25 lunch. Zoot is also involved in the Restore Altadena grants committee, the Summer Concert Committee, and is the incoming Membership Chair for Rotary District 5300.

Zoot will be heading to Calgary across the Canadian Rockies in June 2025 for the Rotary International Conference.

Zoot is a Speaker on Paul Harris and the History of Rotary.

Member of the Pasadena Lawn Bowling and Santa Anita Lawn Bowling.

Current Projects

Zoot Velasco is a contractor with many clients and an employee of California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, and Fullerton College of the North Orange County Community College District. The views expressed on this website and in his books/ podcasts are his alone and do not represent the views of his employers or clients.