EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Fatima Garcia-Sanchez, MNM is a nonprofit leader specializing in language access, victim services, and mission-driven program development. As the Center for Trauma and Resilience, Translation & Interpreting Center Director she ensures high-quality, trauma-informed language services and sustainable social enterprise operations. With over 20 years serving immigrant and underserved communities, Fatima brings strengths in grant management, financial oversight, and culturally responsive, trauma-informed program design. She holds a Master of Nonprofit Management from Regis University and a Bachelor’s in Community Health from the University of Northern Colorado.

LEGAL DIRECTOR

Maryan Gómez has more than 15 years of experience working with Latino communities, primarily undocumented individuals and survivors of violence. She is accredited by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and specializes in VAWA cases, U visas, adjustment of status, and other humanitarian immigration processes.

Currently, Maryan leads the Mi Gente legal program at The Center for Trauma & Resilience (CTR), where she coordinates trauma-informed and culturally responsive legal support services. As an immigrant herself, Maryan understands firsthand the challenges faced by Latino families. For this reason, her work combines technical knowledge of the immigration system with a deep human commitment: listening, believing, and accompanying each person with respect and dignity.

I’m honored to serve as the clinical supervisor for CTR. Working alongside our masters level and graduate level clinicians is a pleasure and a privilege for me. My main purpose in this work is to participate in the collective and individual healing from trauma.

Some of my context and experiences: Additionally, I am case manager in the public school system, serving Spanish speaking families in a comprehensive capacity. 

I also have owned a private therapy practice since 2022, which has been the vessel for meeting incredible people, also on their journeys in healing from trauma, whether systemic, intergenerational, acute or complex.

I am a forever learner. I am humbled by the expansiveness of what the human brain and body can heal from and achieve, especially when in connection with others. 

Charly Mendoza is a multi-faceted linguistic polyglot individual who has lived many different lives being the eclectic individual that he is. From being a 1st Generation Xicanx to achieving his Bachelor in Arts in Distributed Studies within the fields of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology with a focus in Creative Writing, to being a force to be reckoned with hailing from Southwest Denver as being a present community member and as a published researcher/writer and active spoken word artist when the sun sets on the horizon. 

Before COVID, Charly was a K-12 STEM school teacher working very closely with the Bridge Project which served inner city children. Once the COVID pandemic hit the US, Charly was on the front lines aiding in making sure test kits were distributed before pivoting to become a steward for the immigrant community by being focused on researching criminal records. Soon after Charly rose to become a well versed resource in multiple realms of affirmative immigration applications. Seeing first hand how impactful it is for folks to be able to talk out their tribulations and having the itch to keep on expanding his own knowledge, Charly is currently in the process of achieving a MSW and then becoming an LCSW in order to continue to help out his community members as a licensed mental health therapist. As a firm believer in that learning and growing as an individual isn’t constrained to just following a cookie cutter mold, Charly has and always will continue to develop and hone his eclectic set of skills to aid those in need.

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