Through her work with Training To Impact, Alex has supported youth-focused substance use prevention efforts, helping create interactive learning experiences that encourage young people to reflect, participate, and strengthen the knowledge and skills that support healthy decision-making. This experience has deepened her commitment to creating spaces where youth feel heard, respected, and empowered to recognize their own strengths and potential.

Alex is also passionate about women’s empowerment. Her book Las Seis Reglas del Ámbar reflects her commitment to helping women strengthen self-awareness, confidence, personal growth, and their ability to make intentional choices in their lives.

With training in emotional intelligence and positive psychology, Alex understands that people have different learning styles, strengths, and life experiences. Her facilitation approach incorporates conversation, interactive activities, creativity, and real-life examples to encourage participation and connection. She strives to create welcoming learning environments where participants feel comfortable sharing their perspectives, engaging with others, and applying what they learn.

Her facilitation philosophy is simple: if someone does not understand something one way, we need to find another way to teach it.

Ana’s background includes 15 years of experience developing and supporting programs and community engagement initiatives in public libraries, as well as more than 10 years of experience facilitating classes and providing coaching to parents and caregivers involved in the justice system. She has also served as a youth mentor. These experiences have strengthened her ability to work with families from diverse backgrounds, build trust, navigate sensitive conversations, and create learning environments that recognize the strengths, experiences, and knowledge participants already bring.

Since 2024, Ana has served as an Adjunct Instructor in the Master of Social Work program at Pacific University, where she teaches the course Latino Family and Culture. Her teaching addresses topics that also inform TTI’s training and facilitation approach, including cultural humility, antiracist practices, anti-bias in action, family and cultural dynamics, and culturally responsive engagement. Her experience working with graduate social work students further strengthens her ability to connect theory, lived experience, and practical application.

Through TTI, Ana facilitates culturally responsive training, workshops, community conversations, planning sessions, and other learning experiences for public agencies, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, families, and community groups. Her facilitation approach is grounded in Popular Education and adult learning principles and is practical, participatory, and interactive.

Ana believes meaningful learning happens when participants’ cultures, lived experiences, and existing knowledge are recognized as important sources of learning. She creates spaces where people can exchange perspectives, strengthen skills and relationships, reflect on their experiences, and identify practical actions they can apply in their families, workplaces, and communities.

Claudia’s commitment to community work is deeply informed by her own experience as an immigrant and by more than 20 years of learning, serving, and building connections within her community. Her experiences navigating barriers to healthcare, education, and community resources strengthened her commitment to helping others access information, recognize their strengths, and make informed decisions for themselves and their families.

As a facilitator, Claudia creates welcoming and participatory learning environments where people feel heard, respected, and valued. Her approach is grounded in Popular Education and the belief that everyone brings important knowledge, lived experience, and strengths to the learning process. She enjoys creating opportunities for participants to learn from one another and connect new information to their own lives and communities.

Claudia holds certifications and training in community health, doula services, parent, youth, and family workshop facilitation, CPR instruction, and other areas related to health, education, and community well-being. She is committed to continued learning and to using what she learns to strengthen individuals, families, and communities.

Outside of her professional work, Claudia enjoys traveling with her family, discovering new places, painting, writing, and finding time to rest and reconnect.

Throughout her career, Edith has designed and facilitated workshops, trainings, and learning experiences focused on self-care, emotional well-being, mental health, and early childhood education. Her background working with educators and families strengthens her ability to understand different perspectives, respond to participants’ needs, and create learning experiences that are relevant to both their personal lives and their work with children, families, and communities.

Edith’s facilitation approach is participatory, reflective, and culturally responsive. She creates welcoming environments where participants can share their experiences, recognize their strengths, learn from one another, and connect new knowledge with their own realities. This approach helps TTI partners foster meaningful participation, strengthen relationships with the communities they serve, and support learning that can be translated into practical action.

Edith holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Universidad Tecnológica de Guadalajara. She continued her education in the United States, earning an associate degree in Mental Health, Social Services, and Counseling from Mt. Hood Community College in Oregon. Her combined background in psychology, mental health, education, and community work allows her to bring a holistic perspective to facilitation and to support learning experiences centered on dignity, well-being, connection, and personal and community strengths.

Drawing on her mental health background and experience supporting families, Liza works with parents, caregivers, and youth to provide monthly training sessions focused on substance use prevention and family well-being. Her clinical perspective helps her approach sensitive topics with care and in a trauma-informed manner where families feel respected, supported, and comfortable participating.

As a TTI Certified Facilitator, Liza brings expertise in family support, leadership development, healthcare, wellness, and program improvement. She creates welcoming, people-centered learning environments where participants can reflect, exchange perspectives, strengthen their skills, and identify practical actions they can apply in their personal lives, professional roles, and relationships.

TTI partners benefit from Liza’s ability to combine clinical knowledge, leadership experience, and practical tools to facilitate meaningful learning experiences that respond to the needs of families, professionals, and organizational leaders.

Liza is also a coauthor of the parenting book Cinco Estilos de Crianza (Five Parenting Styles) and the wellness book Fill Your Cup First, The Benefits of Self-Care.

As a TTI Certified Facilitator, Lucy brings expertise in early childhood education, early literacy, brain development, bilingual family engagement, and culturally responsive services. She creates welcoming learning environments where parents and caregivers can share their experiences, strengthen their knowledge, and identify practical ways to support their children’s development. TTI partners benefit from her ability to communicate complex information in an accessible, engaging, and culturally relevant way.

Lucy is also a certified bilingual birth doula. Her combined experience in early literacy, family education, and birth support allows her to facilitate training and workshops that respond to the needs of children and families across different stages of development.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Lucy now lives in Beaverton, Oregon. She enjoys reading picture books and graphic novels, watching movies, singing, hiking, taking road trips with her daughter, Camila, and spending time with their dog, Gypsy, and cat, Bella.