David Damian Figueroa

David Damian Figueroa: El Oz

El Oz is a novel about the life of a young girl and her dog living on a small ranch with her aunt and uncles outside a fictional town in Mexico undergoing economic transformation due to pressure from corporate agriculture.

An adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s original story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, El Oz was inspired by Figueroa’s move to Los Angeles, CA and his first impressions of the city’s skyline and includes characters based on the author’s own family members and civil rights icon, Dolores Huerta.

David Damian Figueroa is a former entertainment publicist representing legendary recording artists and actors. He is best known for his work in connecting entertainers to nonprofits and social justice and human rights campaigns. He has decades-long experience developing and implementing strategic communications plans that maximize news coverage and increase visibility through television, film, celebrity and influencer engagement, social media, and print media.

He has launched nationwide social justice campaigns on policy issues related to education, farmworker rights and empowerment, voting rights, immigration, public resource equity, equity, and employment.

David Damian’s passion for social justice was ingrained in his childhood as a farmworker in the agricultural fields of southern Arizona. El Oz is his second book.