(Center) La Meza Verde Project Manager Raul Lozano visits Arturo Lopez, who’s family is one of 30 participating in the program, in San Jose Tuesday November 24, 2009. Meza Verde provides families with garden boxes and allows them to grow their own vegetables. (Maria J. Avila/Mercury News)
Raul Lozano always seemed like a quiet guy. In the nearly 20 years I knew him, I don’t think I ever heard him raise his voice. But the impact he had in Santa Clara County was loud and clear.
Lozano — who spent a decade as executive director of Teatro Visión and went on to found