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About Aja
A Visionary Builder
Aja is a visionary builder, former two-term mayor of Compton, and one of the youngest mayors in America to lead a major city. She led one of the most notable urban turnarounds in the country, bringing in over $3 billion in investment, new annual 20% increase to general fund revenue revenue, and significantly reducing crime (~65%) while breaking a glass ceiling and paving the way for a new generation of female mayors to rise and serve. She is widely recognized as a catalyst for transformation and is often cited at the intersection of policy, innovation, and impact.
She is a multi-founder of the Compton and Altadena Community Development Corporations and co-founder of Omega Circle Holdings, a platform built to scale impact across government and education technology, community development, capital, and media. Now, as a Strategic Impact Partner at FORWARD, she designs and scales solutions that connect people to resources, unlock opportunity, and modernize public systems nationwide.
She is also the author of Visionary Builders, a newly released book designed to equip reformers and leaders to transform systems using a Bible-based, trench-tested blueprint for building at scale.
Impact Verticals
Her current work spans roles; founder, partner, strategist, solutionist. Here's where she's showing up right now.
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Visionary Builders
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Growth Expert,
Solutions + Systems Architect, Visionary Builder, Proven Leader, Scaling Impact to Deliver Transformation in the Marketplace.
Lasting Impact
With 20 years of experience in community and economic development, Aja's transformative leadership, including her tenure as Compton's Mayor from 2013-2021, has made a lasting impact. Her innovative 12-point Strategic Vision Plan resulted in unprecedented economic growth, job creation, crime reduction, and community.