Community Alliance Building
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This session is part of a transformative two-year program, designed for women of color leaders in northern New Mexico's nonprofit sector.
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This event is part of the Learning Hub program Wisdom Weavers. The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers the Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth.
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Alicia Lueras Maldonado
Alicia Lueras Maldonado
Alicia Lueras Maldonado, is a facilitator, coach, consultant and strategist. She holds Bachelor of Arts degrees inCommunication & Journalism, and Spanish from the University of New Mexico.She received her coaching certification from Leadership that Works, which is anAccredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) with the International Coach Federation. Her coaching focuses on personal transformation and growth, equity, and leadership and organizational development. She incorporates visualization, breath work, meditation, journaling, storytelling and movement as part of her coaching.
Alicia’s background in politics, the arts, community and social justice organizing gives her a unique perspective, which she brings to her practice. As the Founder & ChiefExecutive Officer, she has over 25 years of social justice organizing, management, consulting and facilitation experience. In addition, Alicia is also an actor, writer, photographer, level II reiki practitioner and certified yoga instructor. She integrates all these disciplines into her work.
Ariane Mahmud-Ghazi
Ariane Mahmud-Ghazi
Ariane Mahmud-Ghazi is an Afghan-American somatic psychotherapist, an experiential educator, a creativity coach, and a trauma consultant. Key professional offerings include
- A lifelong commitment to child protection, gender parity, maternal & child health, family welfare and community building.
- A clinical background in social work and trauma recovery with a focus on ecological approaches to community mobilization & post-conflict transformation.
- Multicultural awareness and experience working locally and internationally.
Ariane is committed to supporting those who strengthen our social fabric, who honor peace & the mosaic of cultures across the globe, who stand for social justice, and for placing the welfare of children & nature at the heart of all levels of innovation & decision-making. She is passionate about restoring relationships that have been disrupted by social, collective and generational trauma and facilitates conversations and experiential workshops for health, wellness, self-regulation, conflict resolution, and post-traumatic growth to develop joint collaborative actions for social transformation. Find out more at ecologyofbeingyou.com.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Alicia Lueras Maldonado
Alicia Lueras Maldonado
Alicia Lueras Maldonado, is a facilitator, coach, consultant and strategist. She holds Bachelor of Arts degrees inCommunication & Journalism, and Spanish from the University of New Mexico.She received her coaching certification from Leadership that Works, which is anAccredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) with the International Coach Federation. Her coaching focuses on personal transformation and growth, equity, and leadership and organizational development. She incorporates visualization, breath work, meditation, journaling, storytelling and movement as part of her coaching.
Alicia’s background in politics, the arts, community and social justice organizing gives her a unique perspective, which she brings to her practice. As the Founder & ChiefExecutive Officer, she has over 25 years of social justice organizing, management, consulting and facilitation experience. In addition, Alicia is also an actor, writer, photographer, level II reiki practitioner and certified yoga instructor. She integrates all these disciplines into her work.
Ariane Mahmud-Ghazi
Ariane Mahmud-Ghazi
Ariane Mahmud-Ghazi is an Afghan-American somatic psychotherapist, an experiential educator, a creativity coach, and a trauma consultant. Key professional offerings include
- A lifelong commitment to child protection, gender parity, maternal & child health, family welfare and community building.
- A clinical background in social work and trauma recovery with a focus on ecological approaches to community mobilization & post-conflict transformation.
- Multicultural awareness and experience working locally and internationally.
Ariane is committed to supporting those who strengthen our social fabric, who honor peace & the mosaic of cultures across the globe, who stand for social justice, and for placing the welfare of children & nature at the heart of all levels of innovation & decision-making. She is passionate about restoring relationships that have been disrupted by social, collective and generational trauma and facilitates conversations and experiential workshops for health, wellness, self-regulation, conflict resolution, and post-traumatic growth to develop joint collaborative actions for social transformation. Find out more at ecologyofbeingyou.com.
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