Our Advisory Board offers their expertise and knowledge to support the Community Well community.
Catherine Marroquin - Marketing Coordinator
Catherine Marroquin, Community Well founding partner, has over 15 years of experience working with youth and their families in the Bay Area. She was born in San Francisco and is the daughter of Colombian Immigrants. Catherine worked with foster care youth for Juma Ventures in San Francisco as the Work Readiness Program Coordinator in 2001. After receiving her Bachelors degree in Sociology from San Francisco State University in 2006, she continued community work with the Safety Network Partnership as a Community Organizer at Horizons Unlimited. In 2008, Catherine was hired at Mission Graduates as the College Connect Lead Counselor, was promoted to Director in 2010 and later promoted to Sr. Director of College Access and Success in 2016. She has also studied Curanderia for 5 years with Tereza Iñiguez-Flores and integrates her teachings with the youth and families that she serves. Catherine is extremely grateful and excited to have launched Community Well with a beautiful community that shares her dedication to healing her community and social equity.
Jen Reyes Moran - Board President & Organizational Director
Jen Reyes Moran is a healer (healing her own past traumas and ancestral lineage) and committed to working for health equity. She is a student of Life and her journey has gratefully led to co-founding Community Well. She continuously engages in her lifelong passion of studying and learning. Embodied Transformation is her current jam. She has studied and remains interested in birth, psychology, anthropology, spirituality, bodywork and energywork, integrative medicine and the end of life transition. Jen also has strong spiritual practices that guide her and her pathway forward. Her first big job was special ed. teacher for Oakland Unified School District and since then, has always been committed to education and working with families. When she became a certified holistic massage therapist in 2000, she began actively envisioning a self-discovery and wellness center in her future. So she is incredibly grateful and inspired to be working with people of such integrity and dedication to wholeness and well-being. You’ll find her at CW organizing and facilitating classes and leading with love. Aside from work, she loves being out in Mother Nature, swimming, singing, dancing, and honoring Life. For more info about Jen's doula work: www.mamadoulajoy.net
Jennifer Navarro-Marroquin - Events Coordinator & Program Director
Jennifer Navarro-Marroquin, Community Well founding partner, is currently the owner of her own financial services marketing business. She is a Licensed Financial Professional with a primary goal of sharing wealth building concepts & basic financial concepts with families so that they can thrive. She is also a Holistic Practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist, Integrated Energy therapist, Rain Drop Technician, and Reiki I mpractitioner. Through her practice she has helped many individuals return home to their natural state of happiness and fulfillment. Currently she has found a way to weave both financial education and holistic arts together to create a unique and valuable service. She is inspired by Community Well’s beautiful vision of collectively creating and defining community, though the spiritual practices of giving and receiving from one another.
Leila Vega - Ambassador, Outreach & Events Planning Coordinator
Leila Vega was born and raised in San Francisco and the Bay Area. She is a gay, social justice youth advocate and the daughter of immigrants of the Excelsior District. She holds a BA in Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz, specializing in community organizing to address social justice and inequities with an emphasis in youth empowerment. She has worked with underrepresented, marginalized youth and families of color of all ages in SF, the Bay Area and Santa Cruz county since 2005. She has worked with youth in juvenile justice, foster care and mental health programs, group homes, schools, workforce and non-profit organizations in direct care and managerial roles.
Leila works for San Francisco Unified School District, Career Pathways department. She establishes and cultivates community based organizations and industry partnerships for the movement of economic inclusion, accelerated career exposure, development and programming for all 46 career pathways programs embedded in 13 high schools across the school district. Leila is committed to challenging and addressing institutionalized oppression and systems, empowering youth communities in navigating resources, self healing and wellness practices.
Luis Marroquin - Fundraising Support & Men’s Healing
Luis Marroquin is a facilitator for the Peaceful Warriors Men's Healing Circle. He has been facilitating men's circles for 4 years in East Oakland at Amor Eterno Arte, a Tattoo shop and community space. Luis has also co-facilitated men circles with his mentor and community elder Maestra Teresa Iñiguez-Flores, a curandera based out of San Francisco.
Luis does not consider himself a healer, in the sense that he can heal anyone, as he knows he can only support those who choose to heal themselves. Luis shares his personal healing journey and experiences that are rooted in spirituality to support other men dealing with trauma. He does this by creating a sacred and safe space that allows men to connect to their emotions, identity, and spirit. He believes that healing is a lifelong process of reclaiming self-identity of what a “man” should be, not the toxic masculinity that has been imposed on men through social and cultural constructs. Healing and self-awareness is a process that requires patience, courage, support, and a lot of self-love.