Over 2.5 years of community-based mental health experience as a 24/5 crisis clinician for youth and family in the Portland tri-county metro area. Zulma worked with primarily Latinx and lower SES populations utilizing a strengths-based approach and trauma-informed lens to help them reach clinical stability. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she saw the stark surge in needs coupled with few effective solutions and started designing a health model to help as many people as possible achieve wellness.

Zulma brings years of organizational leadership experience from the public service, NGO, and private business sector. She understands the importance of community-based partnerships and initiatives; benchmarking and improving systems; culture-creation; and strategic vision to ensure organizational goals are worked towards collaboratively, respectfully, and harmoniously.

Zulma has over 15 years of experience in experiential education across the U.S, Latin America, the UK, and Oceania— allowing her to work with diverse populations across cultures, ideologies, needs, and lived-experiences. Her educational work has intersected with health, wellness, nature, and research— honing her educational design and implementation skills through in-person, online, and hybrid program and curriculum development. She centers a human-centered approach with strong systems-thinking to achieve immediate and long-term outcomes.