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First hand experience

Our company is founded by an immigrant who has first-hand experience of the hardships faced daily by our community.

This helps us to comprehend our community’s needs as well as accurately recognize our target audience from within, cultivating trust and facilitating the exchange of information grounded in lived experience.

Claudia Zepeda
CEO & Founder,
LatinX
Words from the CEO & Founder

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As a Mexican immigrant who has been in the US for almost two decades, I have personally overcome many of the challenges that most immigrants face daily. I’v worked in the fields and warehouses under extreme conditions, worked in underpaid services jobs, and personally experienced the discrimination and disenfranchisement of the Latinx immigrant community.  

This personal experience has inspired my commitment to ensure that Latinx immigrants feel accepted, valued, and integrated as an important part of the communities where they live and work. This commitment to serving the Latinx community in the most culturally-appropriate and effective way has served as the foundation of all the projects and campaigns that I have created.

Claudia Zepeda
CEO & Founder, LatinX

Claudia Zepeda is the founder and Director of LatinX with over 20 years of experience in community  organizing, advocacy, and communications. Prior to founding LatinX LLC, she was the Census Coordinator at La Casa Hogar, ensuring that the Latinx community was properly counted in the  2020 Census.   Claudia has also served as an Organizer at the Northwest Justice Project, a Founding Board  Member and Secretary of Finances at the Mattawa Area Food Bank, and a volunteer medical  translator at the Gospel Mission Clinic.

CAREER

She has volunteered with many nonprofit organizations in the fields of domestic violence, immigration, early childhood  education, health, and human services – all working directly with the Latinx community.

Claudia has also been teaching and practicing yoga, meditation, massage, and other healing  modalities for over 10 years, and began her own holistic health business, Balance N Love, in  2014. She was certified by the Chopra University in Yoga, Meditation, and Ayurveda in 2013, Bastyr University in WA,  and recently graduated from Sedona University with a degree in Holistic Life Coaching.

She has been a Promotora in Mexico since she was 7 years old and at 15 she helped develop the first pilot program for Promotoras called Educación Inicial for Community Development.