Friends of Los Angeles State Historic Park is a new organization that has been formed by veterans of the original Chinatown Yards Alliance that stopped industrial warehouses from taking over the 32 acres that became the park, after they won in court and persuaded elected officials to invest in a park instead.

The founders are Sean Woods, former superintendent of L.A. State Historic Park, Raul Macias, president of Anahuak Youth Sports Association and a longtime advocate for the park even before there was a park, and Susan Lai, whose late husband Collin Lai was a founding member of the Chinatown Yards Alliance, a coalition of many community and environmental organizations that advocated for the park's creation.

Friends of L.A. State Historic Park was formed with a singular mission: to protect and preserve the park — a green space that our communities fought nearly 30 years to bring to life — and to connect surrounding communities to the park and give community members a meaningful voice in the park’s past, present, and future.