FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKER
"Gabriel Maldonado"
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| Gabriel Maldonado |
Gabriel
Maldonado is the CEO
and Executive Director of TruEvolution,
Inc. - a youth development, social justice organization dedicated to advocating
for marginalized and underserved communities through health & wellness,
life skills, leadership development, and civic engagement programs and
services. Gabriel began working in leadership development after having served
on the founding Board of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Teen Community
Police Advisory Board under the direction of now Los Angeles City Councilman
Jose Buscaino working to build a bridge between the LAPD and the youth in the
City of Los Angeles. Gabriel is a human services consultant for other
organizations as a specialist in strategic planning, social justice
campaigning, program designing, and strategic outreach. As an LGBT Activist,
Gabriel works closely with grassroots LGBT organizations and has been an expert
panelist and speaker all over the country from Los Angeles to Washington D.C.
He has spoken on the disproportionate impacts of HIV/AIDS, institutional
discriminatory practices of homophobia and misogyny in the LGBT community and
within other communities of color.
