Board of Directors
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Founder, Chief Executive Director, and Chair of the Board
Likes continue creating opportunities for reparations towards Indigenous and BIPOC communities. Andrea currently a senior undergraduate working to obtain the Environmental Studies at Naropa University, focused on environmental and social justice on behalf of our planet. Additionally, after graduation she will have a minor in Peace Studies, and Food Justice. She is originally Indigenous from Mexico, and she has become passionate about creating social justice and equity for people. She is the Chief Executive Director, and Founder the non-profit Harvest of All First Nations (HAFN), which is focused on Indigenous-led reparations, rematriation & Earth based Decolonization for the benefit of BIPOC peoples for cultural enrichment & health equity .HAFN was able to host the first annual Corn Festival in Boulder County, focused on Land Back, Indigenous leadership and regenerative agriculture. My cultural, ceremonial and ongoing community background has helped me to offer an opportunity for generation healing for the next generations including my children. It is a great opportunity to be able to express and present more about of HAFN, so new ways of governance models within the non- profit world and societies could be modeled to help break patriarchal systems.
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Outreach Coordinator, Board Director, Board Member of Boulder Food Rescue
Maria Ortiz Roa (Ella/La | She/Her) is originally from the land of the Muiscas, Zenú, Wayuú, Nukak, Kogi and many other Indigenous Peoples known by the colonial name of Colombia. Angela was born with an open heart and an inquisitive mind.
She began educating herself about social, climate and food justice, cultural diversity, and intersectional oppression and transformation shortly after migrating north in 2001, in her need for survival as an outsider to this country's culture and history. Simultaneously,
Angela formed herself as a skilled language service provider (Spanish/English/American Sign Language) and advocate for language access and justice. In her experience in these fields she has gained a unique understanding around communities' cultural and linguistic
needs, and has been able to facilitate and promote communication for diverse populations and settings. Angela also has experience as an Urban Agriculture Educator, and received her Permaculture Certificate in 2014, which strengthened her responsibility to serve. As an immigrant with multicultural, multilingual and intersectional identities she continues to uncover and rectify her implicit biases and unconscious contributions to societal oppressive systems. Serving HAFN as a board member has deepened her physical and spiritual commitment towards reparations and reconciliation and she hopes to continue to contribute to the development of resilient and sustainable communities by building bridges between people, cultures, natural resources and the Earth.
Angela is also a passionate mother who loves music, dance, family, and friends.
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Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Rinchen.Love@colorado.edu
Secretary, Board Director, FLOWS Program Coordinator
Rinchen Indya Love is the Program Coordinator for Foundations for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability(FLOWS).
Growing up in the foothills of the Himalayas in India had a large influence on her appreciation and love for nature. Her grandmother taught her how to grow food and harvest food while taking care of the land. Rinchen’s cultural background, which is Tibetan, Bhutanese, and Sikkimese also taught her about the sacredness of mother nature and ways to honor and be respectful of the interconnectivity between nature and all its inhabitants.
She is committed to FLOWS’s work with the community and has been able to take on different roles within the organization. FLOWS has opened up many doors for Rinchen to explore, learn, and gain a deeper understanding of social and climate injustices, especially for the BIPOC, immigrant, and low-income communities she belongs to.
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Board Relative
Zach (he/him/él) is a Dean of Culture at Northeast Early College in the Montbello community of Denver, CO. Previously he worked for an Oakland based non-profit called the National Equity Project as a Senior Equity Leadership Consultant (2018-2024), and prior to that he was an educator and leader in Denver Public Schools (2008-2018). His purpose and passion is rooted in education. He entered the classroom with a vision of what bell hooks refers to as “education as the practice of freedom” and continues to see his work as activism rooted in a long standing, intergenerational struggle for social justice.
Zach holds a bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies with an emphasis in Chicanx and American Indian Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder (Summa Cum Laude, 2008). He earned his master’s and a certificate in teaching for Cultural and Linguistic Diversity from the University of Colorado at Denver (2010) where he studied Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Urban Pedagogy and Leadership.
Outside of school, Zach is a member of Kalpulli Mikakuika, a Denver based Mexica/Aztec dance group and is a proud father of two amazing teenagers, Xavier and Ze.
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Founder and Executive Director of Centro Amistad
Elena nació en Guadalajara, México, donde completó sus estudios en la Facultad de Psicología.
Su primer trabajo en los Estados Unidos Salud Pública del Condado de Boulder en 1988 como psicoterapeuta en el área de Abuso de Sustancias Tóxicas y trabajo comunitario donde proporcionó servicios de prevención a la comunidad latina.
Después de esto, Elena continuo su trabajo en Florida y California ofreciendo apoyo en el área de Salud Mental Comunitaria, terapia en violencia doméstica, e intervención sobre primera infancia y la relación “mama e infante”.
De regreso a Boulder, Elena tuvo el privilegio de continuar trabajando para las familias latinas en el Programa Infantil Comunitario (CIP-CIRCULO) en Mental Health Partners como especialista en salud mental infantil brindando servicios psicoterapéuticos a madres y padres de familia por más 23 años.
En su trayectoria como psicoterapeuta a creado modelos de intervención individual, familiar, grupal y comunitaria tomando en cuenta las barreras de acceso a la salud mental. Su enfoque basado en la fuerza para resaltar y promover la resiliencia comunitaria la ha fortalecido e inspirado para crear más programas que estimulen el crecimiento y bienestar integral de las personas tomando en cuenta los contextos socio-económicos, raciales, culturales y lingüísticos.
En el año 2002 Elena inicio como voluntaria en El Centro amistad e inicio el primer Programa Compañeras y la Cumbre de Mujeres
Actualmente tiene la posición de directora de Programas de Educación y Equidad. Colabora en el equipo de investigación del Programa ALMA (Enfocado en mujeres embarazadas y posparto que experimentan síntomas de depresión) con el Instituto de Bienestar Reneé Crown de la Universidad de Colorado en Boulder.
En su tiempo libre Elena disfruta de dibujar, hacer manualidades y bailar. Le encanta convivir con sus hijos Tonatiuh, Maya Sol y Alvi. Elena a descubierto el encanto de jugar con sus nuevos amores: Nora y Matea.
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Financial Relative
Osvaldo “Ozzie” Cabral, MA, LPC, LAC (Wixarika/Chichimeca) is the Director of Clinical Services at Tribe Recovery Homes and Services and has worked in addictions and mental health since 2002. He has worked in various treatment settings including residential, outpatient treatment facilities, domestic violence, sex offender clinics, and community mental health centers. Ozzie, co-authored and published a curriculum with Hazelden Publishing, on the integration of Dialectical Behavior Therapy with 12-step philosophy. Ozzie has been actively involved in the wolf and wolfdog advocacy for many years and initially founded Song of the Wolf Healing Center in 2016. A rescue for high content wolfdogs. After separating from the organization in 2020, he co-founded Cuetlachtepetl Wolf Mountain Education Center (CWMEC) in hopes of creating a healing center for all individuals and the animals who reside at CWMEC. Tlazocamati Nochimeh.