We are proud to announce the new HLI Class of 2012.
This year's class brings a wealth of diveristy geographically, as well as professionally. Please join us in welcoming the HLI Class of 2012.
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Maria Anguiano
Associate Director, Strategic Initiatives
Office of the President, University of California
Northern California
Maria Anguiano, is currently the Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives at the University of California, Office of the President. She holds a BA in Economics-Accounting from Claremont McKenna College where she graduated magna cum laude, and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. During her summer at Stanford, Maria worked in Shell South Africa as a finance and operations intern. She is a first generation college graduate.
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Gabriela Chavez-Lopez
Business Development Manager
M.E. Fox & Co.
Bay Area
Gabriela Chavez-Lopez was born and raised in Fresno, CA. She received her Bachelor's of Arts in Political Science from Santa Clara University. During college she founded and was President of Sigma Omega Nu, a Latina based sorority at Santa Clara. She also was a founding member of the “Sunnie” Mentorship Program based in Santa Clara, CA. Soon after she went on to become the Campaign Coordinator for Teresa Alvarado’s Campaign for Santa Clara County Supervisor. Soon after she followed her path into the business sector and is currently the Business Development Manager for M. E. Fox Distributing Company’s Red Bull Division.
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Cristina Correa
Consultant
Central Valley
Cristina Correa developed a successful consulting business that focuses on her passion for health care and community development principles. Ms. Correa has over 10 years experience developing public health consumer education programs, providing direct service and working with clinical professionals to reduce health disparities and inequities. Aside from her consulting business, Ms. Correa volunteers with Visión y Compromiso, consulting on the implementation of mental health curriculum for Promotores and legislative advocacy. Ms. Correa holds a Bachelors of Science in Community and Regional Development from the University of California, Davis.
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Lisette Covarrubias
Neighborhood Empowerment Analyst
City of Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles
Lisette Covarrubias is a first generation Mexican American. Her parents immigrated from Jalisco, Mexico to the United States in the late 1960’s. She is the first in her family to have attended a four-year university and the first to obtain a Masters Degree. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and obtained a Bachelors Degree in Political Science. She earned a double Masters Degree in Urban Planning and Latin American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has worked with diverse communities and elected officials throughout the city and continues to do so as a Neighborhood Empowerment Analyst for the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, City of Los Angeles.
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Sandy Escobedo
Education Policy Director
Alliance for a Better Community
Greater Los Angeles
Upon graduating from the University of California Santa Barbara, Ms. Escobedo moved to New York City to teach a bilingual pre-kindergarten classroom in the South Bronx through the program Teach for America. During her tenure in New York, Ms. Escobedo also earned a Master’s of Science in Teaching and Curriculum from Fordham University. Ms. Escobedo also earned her Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her current job, Ms. Escobedo worked for the California Community Foundation as a Deputy Field Director for the Los Angeles Preschool Advocacy Initiative to build support for access to high quality preschool and early care programs for children, birth to five.
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Veronica Goei
Executive Director
Grail Family Services
Bay Area
Veronica P. Goei is an experienced leader in the non-profit sector with more than 20 years of experience. Originally from Chile, she moved to the United States, twenty three years ago. She has a strong commitment to creating social change through services that are of high quality and that are result-oriented. She has been the Executive Director at Grail Family Services (GFS), for the last eleven years. GFS is a non-profit organization that provides services to vulnerable children and their families in San Jose, California. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Chile and she is a graduate of the Harvard University Strategic Perspective in Nonprofit Management Program. She is actively involved with the community and has served on various non-profit Boards.
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Claudia Hernandez
Community Relations Manager
CalOptima
Orange County
Claudia Hernandez is the Community Relations Manager at CalOptima. Claudia started her career at CalOptima in 2005 in Customer Service working in Cultural and Linguistic services. In 2007, she moved to the Community Relations Department as a Specialist and promoted to manager in 2010. Claudia graduated from the University of La Verne, where she received her Master of Science in Leadership and Management with a concentration in Organizational Development.
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Karla Rodriguez Lomax
Government Relations Representative
PG&E
Northern California
Karla Rodriguez Lomax is a Government Relations Representative at PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) in Santa Clara County, serves on the board of the Red Cross of Silicon Valley, is Media Chair of the Hispanic Ball and Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley and serves on the friends of PACT (People Acting in Community Together) advisory board. She has had a long career in communications specializing in semiconductors and EDA software creating strategic messaging and positioning, launching new technologies and companies with a focus on executive communications programs.
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Zulma Maciel
Program Manager
City of San Jose
Bay Area
Zulma is the Program Manager for the City of San Jose’s Department of Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services. Zulma began in the City of San Jose in 1991 as a college intern. She briefly left the City to work as a Public Health Coordinator in Washington, D.C. focusing on a national AIDS prevention project for Latinas. In 1993, soon after earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, she accepted a permanent position with the City of San Jose.
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Claudia Lizbeth Mercado
Associate Service Representative
QPay Inc.
Bay Area
Claudia holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Legal Economic Analysis and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College. She is the first in her family to graduate from High School, College and Graduate studies. Claudia is an entrepreneur in spirit and in the past 4 years has worked for startups doing Business Development. In addition she is also a strong supporter of Non-Profit Hispanic Professional Organizations in the Bay Area and will serve as VP of Marketing for the NSHMBA San Jose chapter in 2012.
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Iris Miranda
Special Projects
AYUDA Financial Services
Bay Area
Iris Miranda grew up in the Temple Beaudry area (just west of Downtown Los Angeles) now home to Edward Roybal High School and Hermosa Vista Park. She is one of ten children raised by a single mother, Mauricia Flores. In the mid 1980s, when Iris was only twelve years old, she participated along with her mother in creating a small but feisty community organization called United Neighbors of Temple Beaudry (U.N.T.B.), which became the leading voice in ensuring that tenants not be illegally evicted from their homes. Ms. Miranda has worked with the University of California Berkeley – Health Initiative of the Americas, as a Statewide Organizing Coordinator, served as Senator of the Associated Students of Berkeley City College, and volunteers at both her children’s schools.
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Ana Paula Noguez
Domestic Violence Prevention Program Coordinator
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Greater Los Angeles
Ana Paula Noguez is originally from Mexico City. She graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana Law School (Mexico City, 2004). She holds a Masters degree in Law and Gender: Public Policy Against Discrimination from CIESAS/Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (2006), and an L.L.M. in Critical Legal Studies and International Human Rights Law from the University of California Los Angeles School of Law (2007). She joined MALDEF in 2007 where she developed, implemented and currently manages the Domestic Violence Prevention Program, targeted at educating and organizing the Latino Community around domestic and dating violence survivors’ legal rights, remedies and community resources.
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Claudia Paredes
Program Manager
The Greenlining Institute
Bay Area
Claudia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru and immigrated to the Bay Area of California in the winter of 1986. Claudia attended and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley where she earned her B.A. in Sociology. She earned her Masters of Public Policy degree from Pepperdine University, where she specialized in social policy and economics. Claudia works as the Program Manager for The Greenlining Institute’s Leadership Academy where she dedicates her time to empowering the next generation of social change leaders.
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Marisa Aurora Quiroz
Environment Program Manager
The San Diego Foundation
San Diego
Marisa Aurora Quiroz blends social justice and passion for the environment with her expertise in nonprofit program and resource development, strategic planning, and cross-cultural relations in her work at The San Diego Foundation (TSDF). Her work involves advocating for the equal participation of local communities in the environmental decisions that affect them. Marisa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Mills College and a Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from the University of San Diego.
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