ROXANA DAMAS
Roxana Damas is an expert consultant to small businesses, non-profits, corporations looking to expand on social responsibility. She is skilled experience in economic empowerment, language access, and community engagement projects. Roxana’s key strengths are in building systems change (for social services and policy), operations, and reworking business models to include the intersectionality between industries from public, private, and non-profit sectors. Her unique blend of training and work experience in the fields of business administration, public and international relations, immigration, public policy, human rights, social services, gender issues, educational programs, and violence prevention are assets in creating business innovation, start-ups, and uniquely designed new projects. Her specialized training and commitment to empower youth and underserved communities have led her to be a sought-after public speaker and frequent co-host of a variety of events, radio, and TV shows. In addition, Roxana’s reach and management include both regional to international projects. Roxana’s talents and passions continue beyond business, education, and community advocacy to the arts and entertainment industry. She is the owner of RD Consulting and Translations and has been in the consulting business for over 15 years. Roxana has also been a co-host to a financial empowerment segment on Mundo Fox & TV Estrella Northern CA. Roxana holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of CA Davis and a Trans-Global MBA from the Saint Mary’s College of California.
AURORA BETANCOURT
Aurora is an enterprising, progressive and motivated Senior Administration and Operations Management professional with a history of combining sound business acumen and thoughtful leadership to achieve unprecedented levels of performance and functionality. She is proficient at generating initiative aimed at high-value and cost-effective services. Specialties involve Finance, Accounting and Operations for small business to 2500 employee organizations. She has worked as an Operations Manager for most of her career and as a Regional Manager for a healthcare organization. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Executive MBA from St. Mary’s College of California.
KENDRA HARRIS
Kendra Harris is a highly accomplished government relations professional with over 13 years of experience in lobbying, policy analysis, and crisis management. A strategic thinker with an extensive background managing government and non-profit policy agendas, contract lobbyists, professional staffs and political action committees (PAC). She is skilled in developing bi-partisan legislation, coalition building, and public/community affairs. Kendra has extensive policy experience with education policy, health, and human services, local government, the welfare of women and girls and issues involving equality, diversity, and social justice movements.
JHORDY SAUCEDO
Born and raised in Sacramento, California; Jhordy has many talents and highly skilled in technology. His expertise begins with graphic design alongside with web design. Jhordy’s versatility begins to shine in his work of photography and videography. Starting his photography/videography/graphic and web design side business, Hoot Productions, his skills in the arts shows his master of creativity and his passion for photography. Hoot Productions caters to all media needs, specializing in weddings and events. Jhordy’s tech, photography, and design talents as an integral part of the RGD Enterprises/ Diversity RD Global projects to serve both our in-house productions and client needs.
Technology is part of everyday life, and he has incorporated into his daily activities building computers and audio and tech management. Over the years, Jhordy is not afraid to tackle anything head on. He continues to work with Kaiser Permanente, studies psychology at Sacramento State and CRC, and is part of the tech management team at Diversity RD Global.
JOSE VELASQUEZ
Jose is a marketer born and raised in El Salvador with an A.A. in marketing. He has a wide variety of natural abilities, insights, and professional training that helps him forecast and oversees what the next steps of upcoming marketing trends, tools, and the skills that are necessary to make any product/ service visible and profitable.
Jose’s work experience at the General Consulate of El Salvador and his pop culture enthusiast background make him a unique and skilled character in every project. From finding hashtags that could be both relatable in English and Spanish and the ability to see what is in style and how to make a “trending topic/hashtag” beneficial for any social media campaign. His creativity has further launched him to explore graphic design with an uncanny and efficient ability to create multiple visual campaigns across major social media platforms internally and for all of our clients. His desire to represent both the Latino, the Latino subcultures, and multicultural messaging makes him an asset to the worlds of English and Spanish languages, as well as the millennial audience.
Jose also has a background in customer service, translations, event coordination, and community advocacy working with immigrant and LGBTQ communities. His experience in real estate and business administration bookkeeping has also prepared him to understand the critical role marketing plays on return on investments of any company and how to make cost-effective marketing campaign decisions. His great active, strategic, creative, efficient, and vibrant personality contributes significantly to any team.
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VICTOR AYALA
Victor is a broadcast media expert in the San Francisco Bay Area market. He has over 10 years of experience as an information systems analyst, network administrator and graphic designer to major media outlets such as KTVU Fox, KICU, KPIX, CBS. He also owns a full media production company that focuses on the music entertainment industry to produce commercials, music videos, websites and promotional material.
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GEMA LANDAVERDE
Gema is an expert in technology security. She is a computer engineer with over 15 years of professional experience. Gema holds various certifications in security (ISO 27001). She has also collaborated on large projects for corporations to strengthen their security both on the strategic and technical levels. Gema has been a leader for projects in ethical hacking, risk, analytics, regulations, compliance and audit systems. Her work goes beyond technology. She has worked in business development, team management, and communications. Gema is currently leading multiple corporate social responsibility projects and WEE Global Live for Alquimia Glob
ALEXANDRA MANGANDI HENRIQUEZ
Ms. Mangandi is an attorney, women’s rights activist, and human rights advocate. Ms. Mangandi has specialized training in human rights cases to be presented to United Nations level. As an activist, she has worked to develop front-line support to women in El Salvador specifically in San Salvador and Santa Ana. Currently, she works in the private sector as an attorney in the insurance fields but continues her advocacy work with a variety of organizations. Ms. Mangandi is part of the legal counsel team to support Alquimia Global in El Salvador and to the Latin American regional services.
*Diversity RD Global – has partner consultants in strategic industries and areas of the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. More consultant bios to come…