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Michaé De La Cuadra (they/she) navigates this world sin género. She is a community organizer and artist born and raised in Los Angeles, California (Tongva Land) with familial roots in México and Ecuador. Her work envisions a future free of gender-based violence and imagines the possibilities of a world divesting from our current oppressive systems. She has explored multiple mediums to work toward this world such as visual art, music, building community-led spaces, and engaging in policy change at local, state and national levels. She has worked to craft and pass policies on issues related to sex work decriminalization, trans detention and incarceration, housing for trans women, healthcare access, and much more.

Michae De La Cuadra

Michaé De La Cuadra

Co-founder /

Lead Consultant

Pronouns:

they/them or she/her

michae@consultingqts.org

Yessica Gonzalez Rodriguez (they/them) is a community organizer, facilitator, and digital strategist based on occupied Tongva Land. Their work lives at the intersection of trans, queer, and migrant justice to see a world without prisons, borders, and binaries. Yessica has spent the last decade building digital campaigns to uplift marginalized communities that are excessively targeted and criminalized. They co-led the Immigrant Youth Coalition and co-founded the Community Alternatives to 911. As a 2019 Soros Justice Fellow, they organized alongside The TransLatin@ Coalition to demand an end to all detention and deportations of trans and gender non-conforming people in the so-called United States. Yessica has a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in Gender Studies.

Yessica Gonzalez

Yessica Gonzalez

Co-founder /

Lead Consultant

Pronouns:

they/them

yessica@consultingqts.org

Effy Velvet X. (she/her) is a visual communications consultant and graphic artist, born and raised in occupied Tongva Land (Los Angeles). Her work flourished at the height of the pandemic through mutual aid, using digital campaigns and virtual spaces to address houselessness, food insecurity, gender disparities, and disability justice, within black and brown transgender circles. She has co-led campaigns and brand development with Reach LA, Gender Justice LA, Los Angeles Women’s HIV/AIDS Task force, Staturn's Wish, and Women's Foundation California, by merging lived experience with visual language as a catalyst for change.

Effemy Xitllali

Visual Communications 
Consultant

Pronouns:

she/her

effemy@consultingqts.org

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