STAFF
Jessica Paola Godinez, (she/her/ella)
Community Programs Manager
Jessica Paola (also known as JP) is a queer Mexicana-Salvadorena lover, homie, organizer, and relative. JP is from the Bay Area, California - ancestral lands of the Ohlone people. Her roots come from Jamay Jalisco, Mexico and San Miguel, El Savador.
JP has done work around educational justice, immigrant justice and liberation, youth advocacy, Chicanx liberation movement and queer liberation movements. JP has dedicated to the care and liberation of our people over a decade by creating safe space for Queer and Trans BIPOC folx known as Queer Justice, is Racial Justice, has implemented programs that center the experiences of survivors of DV, mujeres, and healing spaces. Now JP focuses on creating spiritual spaces that connect to our conocimiento of our inner worth, our power as people and increasing our initiation power to connect weave with organizing.
“Trust you will be held, subcomandandentes” -Mimi Madrid
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Kimmy Fry, (they/them/elle)
Administrative Program Support Specialist
"They/Them/Elle second-generation ChicanX born in the south on the lands of Tonawa and Caddo nations (Texas) and raised across the Midwest on the lands of the Shawnee and Lokota people (Indiana & Colorado). Nourishing souls through laughter, love, expression, and tender embrace. One who grounds in heart and memory. Caregiver to all life and beings."
"Pancitas llenas, corazones contentos" -Pasitas Adela, mi abuela
Mimi Madrid, (she/they/he)
Co-Founder, and Founding Executive Director (2020-2025)
Mimi Madrid (he/they/she) is a mexica chicanx queer two-spirit writer, multimedia-maker, organizer and tio. Mimi’s family roots start in Northern Mexico in the states of Chihuahua y Durango—homelands of her grandmas Dolores Puga y Rosa Torres. Mimi was born in El Paso, Texas and raised in so-called Denver, Colorado—the ancestral lands of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people.
Mimi's worked more than a decade in reproductive justice, youth leadership and LGBTQ+ liberation movements. Mimi’s focus is the development, implementation, and evaluation of cultural, wellness, and safety community programs, events, and curriculum. He’s worked with organizations around Denver that center LGBTQ folks, indigenous young people, survivors of violence, immigrant families, and communities of color.
"I believe in the power of youth, elimination of borders, popular education, all forms of art expression, intergenerational healing and learning, swaying on the continuums of gender expression, identity, and orientation, singing out-loud, leaving to come back, dancing in revolution, and sana-sana-colita-de-rana."
Governing Council
Jacy Montoya Price, (she/her/ella)
Council Co-Chairperson
Jacy previously served as the executive director and co-founder of Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR), a sisterhood of Latinas dedicated to building a movement of Latinas, their families, and allies through leadership development, organizing, and advocacy to create opportunity and achieve reproductive justice. Colorado raised, Jacy lives in East Denver with her husband and two children who can often be found “glamping” across Colorado in their 1976 Airstream camper.
Expertise: Non-Profit Management | Reproductive Justice | Family Resources
Julie Macias, (she/her/ella)
Council Treasuer
Julie was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and immigrated to Miami, Florida at the age of 14. She is a proud veteran and queer woman of color. She lives in Denver with her spouse, mother-in-law, two nieces and three dogs. Julie has an abundance of gay audacity and in her free time likes to test it in ambitious DIY home renovation projects, fixing cars, and dabbles in anything athletics and outdoorsy.
Expertise: Human Resources | Family Resources
Tania Soto Valenzuela, (she/her/ella)
Council Secretary
Originally from Mexico and moved to the US with her family when she was 9 years old. Her lived experience of inequity, lack of opportunity, and exclusion, has led her to work to dismantle inequalities as a researcher, community organizer, and artist. She attempts to guide conversations towards social change.
Expertise: Social Justice, Non-Profit Management
Teddy Campos, (he/him/el)
Council Co-Chairperson
Teddy was born and raised in Denver. He grew up in Westwood and La Alma park neighborhoods. He is the oldest of four siblings. Teddy’s family values and culture comes from his mother's Westwood roots and my father's roots in Zacatecas, Mexico. He lives with his partner and two dogs, Cookie and Coco. Teddy is a proud Taurus and proudly embraces his Mexican queer identity.
Expertise: Child and Family Welfare | Community Organizing | LGBTQ Organizing