WORK TEAM
Tania Rosario Méndez
Executive Director
Holds a Master's Degree in Public Health, with more than 15 years of experience leading community organizing and mobilization efforts in Loíza and other municipalities in Puerto Rico. She also has a baccalaureate in theater and has a solid track record in the use of community theater and popular education as a means to self-knowledge, healing and social transformation.
Damaris Peña de Jesus
Administrative Assistant
Holds a Master's Degree in Health Information Management and Baccalaureate in Management of Office Systems. She has 7 years of experience in Taller Salud.
Yamara Rodríguez Burgos
Finance Director
Holds bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Accounting. 15 years of experience as a business consultant, manager and design of operating systems in administration.
Amber Lee Velez Burr
Communications Director
Journalist and strategic communication consultant. She worked for Puerto Rico's main newspaper, El Nuevo Día and also worked for different radio stations as a reporter and producer for the past 13 years. Until December 2016, she was a spokesperson for the Justice Department in Public Relations. She is an expert in strategic communication as well as a collaborator of non-profit organizations. She holds a Master's Degree in Communication and Culture and a Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico.
Lourdes Inoa Monegro
Director of the Tu Paz Cuenta Program and Senior Facilitator
Holds a Master's degree in Public Health and a bachelor's degree in Political Science. She has 9 years of experience with marginalized women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. She has been the facilitator of the program, working with young and adult women of Loíza in Taller Salud since 2010. Her specialty is working political activism through popular education.
Aida Judith Edwards
In charge of Community Outreach and the Tu Paz Cuenta Program
Local leader of the black community, based on faith and trained in community health and conflict mediator. She has facilitated Taller Salud's parent education program. She has also worked for 4 years around the community scope of Taller Salud in the Municipality of Loíza.
Karla Hernández
Clinical Psychologist of the Tu Paz Cuenta Program
Psychologist with 6 years of practice in psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults. She has 2 years of internship in a help center for victims of sexual abuse and survivors of domestic violence.
Haydeé López
Clinical Psychologist of the Tu Paz Cuenta Program
Psychologist with 5 years of experience working in individual and family therapy. She specializes in working with children and young people in different areas, including suicide prevention, sex education and the management of emotions and violence.
Zinnia Alejandro
Director of the Peace Agreement Program and Community Outreach Coordinator of the Tu Paz Cuenta Program
Local leader of the black community. She has worked as mediator of conflicts and for 6 years, has worked in Taller Salud coordinating the violence interruption efforts of the Peace Agreement Program. She has 2 years of experience providing educational services to surviving children of domestic violence. She has one year of experience as coordinator of community participation and community outreach of Tu Paz Cuenta.
Samuel Osorio
Conflict Mediator and Conflict Response
Trained as a conflict mediator. He has been working at Taller Salud for 5 years, working locally in Loíza with at-risk youth. Responds to community conflicts and refers community members to the services of the organization.
Brenda Fuentes
Community Outreach of the Peace Agreement Program
She has 3 years at Taller Salud working locally in Loíza with at-risk youth. Responds to community conflicts and refers community members to the services of the organization.
Scherezada Fuentes
Community Outreach of the Peace Agreement Program
She has 3 years in Taller Salud working as a mentor and case manager with young people at risk in Loíza.
Jenifer de Jesús
Program and Organization Director
Artist and transdisciplinary educator with 17 years of experience in community projects of young people and women of the culture of peace.
Modesta Irirzarry
Community Organizer
Leader of the local religious community with more than 20 years of experience in community organization.
Grace Blanco
Community Organizer
She holds a Master's Degree in Social Work, specialized in community organization from the University of Puerto Rico. Their experiences and contexts have guided their work towards the construction of social and economic justice through popular education and grassroots organization.
Roberto Fernandez
Clinical Psychologist and Senior Facilitator
Holds a master's degree in Psychology, with more than 25 years of experience offering psychological services in community settings. In Taller Salud he has provided therapeutic services to adolescents, adult men and women for the traumas related to domestic violence, sexual aggression and community violence. He currently represents the personnel before the Board of Directors of Taller Salud.
Michel Collado Toro
Facilitator of Sexual and Reproductive Education
Artist and activist with more than 10 years of experience using art strategies and popular education to mobilize communities around issues related to gender and social and economic inequality.
Liza Morales
Director of the Juntos Sanamos Program
Holds master’s degree in Public Health and is currently a college professor with more than thirteen years of experience in the design and implementation of community health projects and school development in Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Haiti. She also has eight years of experience as an educator for peace. She is a researcher and NGO consultant.