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 20 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 Moran is first-generation Filipino-American and deeply committed to health and health equity in youth and families. She has a BA in Psychology and was a special ed. teacher in Oakland where she saw great need for holistic care of her students. She left teaching to study the healing arts after an emergency surgery and began her practice as a healing bodyworker. She has over 20 years of experience helping people feel better in their bodies—often leading to greater well-being in mind and spirit. She is the co-founder and director of Community Well. A lifelong learner, Jen is continuously expanding her knowledge and deepening her spiritual practices, which guide both her personal and professional journey. She is also COO at Second Nurture, a nonprofit dedicated to building community around foster families and the children in their care. Outside of her work, Jen finds joy in traveling and swimming in mountain lakes with her daughter and husband.
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.