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Queta González believes that our differences make us stronger. A deep resonance with family, community, learning, service and compassion underpin both her life and work. Queta feels privileged to have worked internationally on development and implementation of equity, diversity, inclusion, healing justice, and liberation  strategies and trainings. A seasoned professional, she has been training, facilitating, and coaching people in Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, government and small businesses for over twenty years.

Queta is an adventurer who follows her passions. Her experiences run wide and deep, amounting to a litany of professional roles: assistant curator of an invertebrate museum; experiential and wilderness-based educator; recreation planner; advocate and educator with youth; gang rescue team; adolescent health care advocate and educator; food security advocate; and trainer, as well as serving in numerous team and organizational leadership roles. The common threads of community and ecology connect Queta’s diverse experiences. Her life and work have thus been characterized by the advancement of diverse, inclusive, just, and equitable environments and a deep connection to rivers, land and wilderness. Her commitment to social, environmental and economic justice began in her youth and has been growing and evolving since.

Queta serves on the American Rivers Board of Directors, Nesika Wilamut Board, and on the Oregon Environmental Equity Committee. She also served on Roadmap to the Outdoors steering team and the Governor’s Task Force on the Outdoors. Queta is eternally grateful for and enriched by supportive and loving family and friends, and she lives in Portland with her amazing partner.