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Latinx Parenting believes passionately in shifting the paradigm of raising children towards creating a trauma-informed, healing centered, nonviolent and cultural sustaining approach where Latinx familias can nurture connection in their homes and culture in ways that support individual, family and intergenerational collective healing.

MEET THE JEFA:
LESLIE PRISCILLA

Leslie Priscilla is a first generation non-Black Xicana mother to three bicultural children and daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico. She is a descendant of Indigenous Tarahumara / Rarámuri lineage who has resided on occupied Tongva, Acjachemen & Kizh land, also known as Santa Ana in Orange County, CA, all of her life. She identifies as both Mexican-American and a Detribalized Indigenous mujer. Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support, and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families as well as professionals via trainings locally, nationally, and internationally both in-person and online via the Latinx Parenting organization. She founded this bilingual organization and movement intentionally rooted in children’s rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families.

Leslie has facilitated in-person groups in both Spanish and English for thousands of parents, teachers, and professionals in schools, transitional homes, teen shelters, hospitals, Wraparound programs, drug rehabilitation centers, and family resource centers throughout Orange County, CA and now world-wide virtually.

Invite Leslie to your speaking engagements and keynote addresses.

DANELLIA ARECHIGA

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
Danellia Arechiga (she/her) is a Brown, Queer, Unpartnered Parent, Birth Worker, Embodiment Guide, and Multidimensional Artist. She has a decade of experience serving the BIPOC communities located in and around Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA (Tongva land) as a birth and body worker. Danellia’s birth practice specializes in Conscious Childbirth Education, Placenta Encapsulation, and Postpartum Care, specifically, Mexican Traditional Medicine as she supports families through the observation of the cuarentena or “first forty days” of the postpartum period.

Danellia is also a musician and writer and she integrates her musical gifts into all aspects of her personal and professional work. She is committed to holding intentional and brave spaces for families of color to explore all of the complex emotions, challenges, and celebrations that come with birth, postpartum, parenthood, and beyond. Danellia’s passion for radical transparency and intergenerational healing in her own life inspires the folks she works with to continue the cycle of healing in our communities from seed to soil.

Maria Harrison

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Maria Renee Harrison is an Orange County, CA native living in on unceded Tongva and Acjachemen land known as Santa Ana. Professionally, Maria utilizes her double- Capricorn traits to bring drive, persistence and a focus on success. She has studied as a life coach, hypnotherapist, is a certified Peer Support Specialist, and is passionate about wholistic healing. In particular, she brings her insights from nonviolent communication practice and the enneagram as the primary maps and guides to infuse love and understanding in her personal life and work.

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” -Vincent van Gogh

LIZ CABRERA

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Liz Cabrera is a proud first generation Mexican-American who was born and raised in Santa Ana, California. A loving tia (or titi) of many, Liz is passionate about improving the way friends and family aid in parenting and nurturing children. She also enjoys experimenting in the kitchen and finding clever ways to get her niece and nephew to eat vegetables and teaching them to book and bake. A storyteller with a degree in Creative Writing from Cal State Long Beach, she hopes to someday write a Latinx children’s book.

PATTY CERVANTES

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS COORDINATOR
Patty Cervantes (she/her) is a proud first-generation Mexico-Americana who was born and raised in Santa Ana, CA. A homeschool mother to two medically fragile and neuro-divergent children. She is passionate about breaking generational curses and leaving this world a kinder place for her children and yours. She is acutely aware of the challenges and isolation that come with raising children whose needs differ from their peers and is passionate about connecting with parents who have similar experiences. “I wouldn’t change you for the world, but I would change the world for you.” Amy Wright

Valeria Inoue

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR
Valeria was born and raised in Asuncion, Paraguay, recognizing and embracing her Latin roots. She is also part of the LGBTQIA+ community. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and has a strong interest towards the development and implementation of positive and prosperous public policies, especially in the areas of education, culture, community and urban development. She finds her passion in poetry, enjoying both reading and writing it. She is currently working on her poetry compilation which she hopes to publish soon.

Her bond with Latinx Parenting was created and strengthened by her own experience and that of friends and family who went through the chancla culture and violence in general, both physical, verbal and psychological. Valeria believes that, (focusing on the Latino community) we must continue the work of deconstructing the violent way in which parenting and relationships in general are approached, and instead build a safe space for our children, for us as adults and for our future selves. 

MEET THE ILLUSTRATOR BEHIND OUR BRANDING

Crystal Dominguez

Graphic Illustrator
Crystal Dominguez is a mom of three neurodivergent boys, a visual artist and creativity coach with over 15 years in the creative industry. She’s the founder and owner of Creative Comadre- a holistic brand studio bridging creativity with self-compassion, dedicated to empowering people to pursue their highest potential by offering business, branding and creative services. Experiencing the healing power of her own creative expression, Crystal developed an authentic passion for creativity, this combined with her strength of helping people feel seen, heard and loved, makes her a trustworthy source for people to find their inner creative power and expand into their brilliance. Her art is inspired by the bohemian free spirit, cannabis, healing in community, self love and her lifestyle of using art as a form of discovery and expression. Learn more about Crystal at crystaldomi.com or visit creativecomadre.com for your business needs and creating your own brand magic.

OUR PREVIOUS INTERNS

In partnership with Cal State Long Beach Department of Family and Consumer Sciences the following interns have supported and learned alongside our programming.
Magaly Malagon
Edith Menchu

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