LIBERACIÓN CONSULTING LLC
About Elena
Elena is a Chicana visionary, strategist, culture builder, facilitator, coach, and mama. Elena is the owner and principal of Liberación Consulting LLC. Her work focuses on healing centered consulting, leadership development, and coaching. She has been active in the nonprofit sector and philanthropy over the last 17 years through her work in leadership development, organizational capacity building, institutional organizing, and ministry in California, Boston, South America, and Michigan.
Elena believes in the significant influence of relationships, healing, and power building to advance a liberated community. As a daughter and granddaughter of Mexican migrant farm workers, Elena holds closely her responsibility to integrate the wisdom of her ancestors and to bring healing and liberation for future generations.
Elena is a proud founding member of ELLAS. She also formerly served as Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Kalamazoo Community Foundation. While there, she led efforts to increase equitable grantmaking in communities of color and to establish the first Anti-Racist Transformation Team at the foundation—being the first philanthropic institution in the country to have such a team. Elena has served as a racial healing practitioner with Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) and has sat on various committees serving to increase more equitable strategies and accountability in communities of color in the sectors of education, health, and philanthropy.
Elena is a an alumna of the Hispanics in Philanthropy national fellowship program and has a dual master’s in social work and pastoral ministry from Boston College. When not engaged in community work, she loves traveling, dancing, meditation, spending time with loved ones, and adventuring in her hometown San Francisco-especially with her loves Bryan and Mateo. Learn more about Elena and her work at www.liberacionconsulting.com.
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