About

Claudia Pineda Reyes is a Social Worker with 18 years of experience providing, designing, and informing social justice efforts with multiethnic and multiracial racial communities in a variety of settings. She's a Mexican, queer, neurodivergent woman who was raised in the Chicago area by an immigrant family. Being marginalized led her to seek explanations for what she experienced and witnessed with the community. Claudia earned an undergraduate degree double majoring in Latin American Studies and Ethnic Studies where she studied the social, economic, and political dynamics of immigration, and the cultural constructions of gender, race, and poverty. After a couple of years of providing services across a spectrum of social needs, she earned a master’s degree in Social Work. At this time, she focused on interventions with youth and families, specifically within the context of racial equity and antiviolence. This led her to further develop technical skills in training, facilitation, counseling, and conflict management. Claudia then transitioned to the government sector where she held a couple of roles developing and informing policies that impacted the administration of public funding and social service provision for youth and families, specifically in the reform and abolition spaces in King County, Washington. She was also a facilitator and program director at a nonprofit that trains adults to facilitate groups and develop youth workers. Now, she occupies a full time role as a Community Based Organization Partnership Program Manager with the King County Wastewater Treatment Division and she offers her services as an independent consultant.

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Establishing Relationships with Mexican Immigrants

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