Ernesto Fonseca, Ph.D
Chief Executive Officer
Vanesa Mendoza-Cruz
Chief of Staff to the CEO
Maryam Bolouri, Ph.D
Director of Real Estate Development
Erika Hernandez
Director of Youth & Family Services
Diana Nuñez
Interim Development and Partnerships Director
Leticia Cervantes
Mass Timber Innovation Director
Gabriela Ordonez
Director of Economic Opportunity
Fedora Copley
Office Manager
Julia Fleming
Controller
Deni Anderson
Senior Accountant
Aline Orozco
Senior Accountant
Kamila Marins
Senior Accountant
Dayana Caamal Perez
Engagement Coordinator
Sarah Carnaroli
Grants, Contract & Data Manager
Mason Granto
Data Specialist
Melissa Acevedo
HR Generalist
Nora Vega
Grants and Loan Officer
Brenda Garcia
Program Specialist
Andrea Hall
Department Coordinator
Steven Pereida
Financial Coach
Laura Flores
Default Prevention Counselor
Gloria De Jesus Vega
Financial Coach
Steven Martinez
Home Lending Manager
Ivan Paulik Aguilar
Homeownership Program Manager
Melina Romero
Empresarios Program Manager
Tania Topi
Business Advisor
Kevin Chavez
Real Estate & Development Project Manager
Garrett Runck
Real Estate & Development Project Manager
Rachel Naujock
Associate Project Manager
Heather Hebert
Sr. Asset Manager
Martha Muñoz
Youth & Family Services Manager
Santa Avila
Sr. Community Organizer
Maria Escalera
After School Program Coordinator
Cristina Flores
After School Program Coordinator
Alex Valle
After School Program Coordinator
Bianca Delgado Mendoza
After School Program Coordinator
Mayra Jimenez
After School Program Coordinator
Flor Bañuelos
Early Childhood Educator
Belen Hernandez
Early Childhood Educator
Yohana Sanchez
Early Childhood Educator
ysanchez@haciendacdc.org
Margarita Villalobos
Early Childhood Educator
Jessica Lam
Resident Services Manager
Mich Ledesma Ceron
Resident Services Program Specialist
Mohamed Ali
Resident Services Coordinator
Heather Beck
Resident Services Coordinator
Vania Serna Peñaloza
Resident Services Coordinator
Cuauhtémoc Mikalauskas
Resident Services Coordinator
Griselda Garcia
Resident Services Coordinator
Rocio Reyes
Resident Services Coordinator
Isa Alvarez
Arrobas Program Manager
Kassandra Alvarez
Arrobas Program Coordinator
Veronica Galindo
Arrobas Program Coordinator
Abigail Huston
Arrobas Program Coordinator
Sebastian Bishop
Arrobas Program Coordinator
Javier Alomia
Javier has been a top Real Estate Broker for over 12 years and has successfully closed and negotiated over 150 million dollars in residential and commercial sales. Javier’s background and education in Real Estate Investments, International Business as well as his bilingual skills in English and Spanish have allowed him to serve a wide spectrum of buyers and sellers in the Portland Metro and Vancouver areas.
Building his growing reputation through hard work, client advocacy, and innovative thinking, Javier sets his expectations high. He quickly became the go-to realtor within the RE/MAX network and the city’s leading housing non-profit organizations. Javier’s seasoned experience, sharp instincts, foresight and ability to anticipate market trends, enables him to lead and create opportunities for buyers and sellers in up, down, volatile and changing markets. Javier is a strong and savvy negotiator whether his client is the buyer or the seller
Javier’s work has been punctuated by his involvement with the local community. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors at Hacienda CDC. He has also been a longtime partner and preferred Real Estate Broker at the Portland Housing Center.
Javier earned degrees in Economics and International Business at UDLA in Quito, Ecuador.
Guillermo Sandoval
Guillermo Sandoval is the CRA Director and soon to become the Financial Inclusion Director for Umpqua Bank, located in Portland, OR. He has over 20 years in Affordable Housing and Community Development experience working with underserved communities throughout the Northwest and California. He has an Economics degree from Whitman College and last year completed his MBA from Eastern Washington University. He is proud to have been chosen as CRA Officer of the Year in 2019 by the National Asian American Coalition and honored to have his name on the Hacienda CDC Futsal Court. Outside of community work, Guillermo enjoys being with his wife and spending time with his soon to be adopted children.
Angela Martin
Angela’s service as a board member of Hacienda is informed by a long career in non-profit advocacy and a proven track record in policy development, coalition building and communications strategy. She is an experienced campaign and coalition manager who understands how to build diverse and strategic coalitions as well as activate them for maximum effectiveness inside and outside the Capitol.
Angela is a skilled public speaker who has logged many hours appearing on local radio as a guest commentator and presented to audiences of all sizes. Her progressive credentials include leading a broad coalition of faith leaders and social service advocates in support of stronger consumer protection laws, and directing the successful passage of foreclosure reform as the Executive Director of Economic Fairness Oregon.
She lives in NE Portland with her partner Arielle Clark and their dog Cleo. Together they enjoy exploring Oregon’s backcountry and hidden treasures.
Don Krogh
Peter Platt
Peter is the founder and family co-owner of Andina, the award-winning Peruvian eatery located in Portland’s Pearl District. Since opening its doors in 2003, Andina has grown to become the largest independently owned restaurant in Portland and the third-largest Hispanic owned business in Oregon. Now in transition to becoming a certified B-Corporation, Andina will continue to grow as a social enterprise supporting the creation of a more socially and environmentally responsible food value chain, both at home and in Peru. Peter recently graduated from the Yale School of Management with a concentration in social entrepreneurship. He also serves on the Board of the Oregon Food Bank.
Brad Miller
Hansary Laforest
Hansary Laforest is a trial attorney with Sussman Shank LLP, a business law firm in Portland. As part of Sussman Shank’s litigation group, Hansary’s practice focuses on handling civil and commercial litigation disputes across a variety of industries. The scope of the matters he handles ranges from tort litigation to complex contractual disputes. He has obtained favorable outcomes in several pre-and post-trial hearings. In 2020, Hansary was named as a 2020 Rising Star by Super Lawyers. Hansary has over nine years of experience as a trial attorney, having tried cases in New York, where he first began his career as a prosecutor, and Texas, where he handled criminal defense and family law disputes.
Throughout his career, Hansary has proudly served as a board member for several civic and community-based organizations. Hansary serves on the Service to the Public Committee for the Young Lawyers Section of the Multnomah Bar Association and the Executive Committee for the Oregon State Bar’s Civil Rights Section.
Staci Martin
Staci B. Martin is part of the faculty in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. Her research focuses on critical hope and despair, refugee higher education, participants as co-researchers, and community-based action projects. Staci has lived and worked alongside vulnerable communities in over 20 countries. Her experiences include designing, implementing, and evaluating sustainable psychosocial peace-building educational programs in four countries: Dieplsoot Informal Settlement, South Africa; Vishwa Shanti Vihara Vishwa Monastery, Nepal; Jamaica; and Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. She has presented at over 20 conferences and authored seven papers. She received her Ed.D. in the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program: Curriculum and Instruction from Portland State University in 2018. She is the recipient of the 2018 Carnegie Project of the Education Doctorate (CPED) Dissertation in Practice of the Year Award and also the Louise M. Berman Fellows Award.
Amanda Manjarrez
Amanda Manjarrez is a visionary and creative leader with nearly two decades of experience advocating for progressive causes, fostering equitable systems, and promoting good governance. Known for her unwavering commitment to prioritizing the voices and experiences of communities disproportionately affected by injustice, Amanda's leadership style is characterized by a strategic approach and a deep understanding of complex systems and social issues.
Originally from New Mexico, Amanda honed her skills leading progressive electoral campaigns and spearheading numerous public policy initiatives addressing economic justice, climate action, healthcare, immigrant rights, and democracy reform. As the Chief Strategist at the Center for Civic Policy, she played a pivotal role in building statewide civic engagement infrastructure, leveraging her expertise in navigating complex systems and fostering cross-sector coalitions to implement high-impact policy strategies.
Since relocating to Oregon in 2013, Amanda has been a driving force in supporting BIPOC-led organizations to advocate for community-led priorities and racial justice initiatives at all levels of government. In her roles as the inaugural Advocacy Director for the Coalition of Communities of Color, Latino Network, and most recently, as the Director of Public Policy & Government Affairs at Foundations for a Better Oregon, Amanda has led the design and implementation of programming and initiatives that have significantly advanced equity and inclusion in Oregon's public education system.
In addition to her advocacy work, Amanda runs a consulting practice focused on designing system change strategies that are sustainable, equity driven, and impactful. Drawing on her expertise in strategy design, policy and legal analysis, facilitation, program development, fundraising, campaign and event planning, Amanda has supported organizations across sectors to achieve meaningful and lasting change.
Amanda holds a J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School (Class of 2016) and is an active member of the New Mexico State Bar with a law practice focusing on election law and nonprofit advocacy. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Oregon Center for Public Policy and the State of Oregon's Educator Advancement Council.
Antonio Lara
Omar Martinez
Maria Rojo de Steffey
Maria’s extensive experience includes two terms as a Multnomah County Commissioner where, among many initiatives, she originated and co-chaired the County’s Vital Aging Task Force. Her experience extends to management of contracting and management services. Maria has managed a staff of 500 with a 275 million dollar budget. She has developed and implemented public sector budgets and fiscal procedures. She has also been responsible for contract negotiation for rental/use of facilities and services including the Expo Center and Civic Stadium (now Providence Park). She has extensive media communication experience, management of event services, operations, sales and marketing.
As a private business owner, Maria was the President and Owner of ALMAR Contracting, LLC. Her company was a state certified WBE/MBE business. With over 20 employees and using subcontractors, the company renovated and repair multi-family housing apartment buildings.
Today, Maria serves as the Regional Director of EngAGE NW. EngAGE takes a whole-person approach to community and creative, healthy living by providing arts, wellness, lifelong learning, community building and intergenerational programs to thousands of residents in affordable senior and multi-generational apartment communities.
Clara Padilla Andrews
Prior to moving to Portland in 1987, Ms. Padilla Andrews served as Secretary of State for New Mexico. She was instrumental in starting many nonprofit organizations, including Hacienda Community Development Corporation, Latino Network, and Las Amigas de Nuevo Mexico. Her visionary strategic collaboration with others has led to real progress on initiatives that benefit the Latino and other communities. The Villa de Clara Vista apartment complex has been named for Ms. Padilla Andrews’ tireless advocacy for housing equity. Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse recognized Ms. Padilla Andrews for her numerous community contributions on the floor of House of Representatives, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Issue, Vol. 143 No138.
Ms. Padilla Andrews has dedicated most of her life to achieving social justice and equity for the underserved communities in New Mexico and Oregon. She is committed to informing and educating the Latino community about important issues that affect their lives daily.
Ms. Padilla Andrews is a recipient of numerous awards including the first woman to receive the Congressional Hispanic Distinguished Service Award, Russell Award, Walk Your Talk Award and many more recognitions. She has served on many Boards and Commission including MANA, a National Latina Organization, National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR), National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP), National Press Club, and many more local boards.