Bobbi Jo Chavarria is a published poet, long-time resident of Fontana, former community organizer with a national now-defunct community group, and is now a volunteer organizing committee member for the forming ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment).

She is the State Regional Coordinator for the Inland Empire DoPeace and Nonviolence Alliance (IEDOPNA) since February 2006, and has campaigned and lobbied for support for the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. Before her political activism began in earnest, Chavarria operated a successful home-based business, and has extensive experience in sales and marketing, accounting, computer technology, data processing, graphic design,and customer service. Her work experience also includes knowledge gained in the truck and rail goods movement industry, as a staff member of a local governing district, and a geotechnology firm. Both graduates of Fontana High School, she and her husband, Gil, have been homeowners in Fontana since December 1993, and have one son, born in December 2008, and two cats.