Monserrat Padilla is a queer, transgender, Mexicana-Latina refugee and VP of Community Relations at Consult Catalina and goes by she/her/hers pronouns. At Consult Catalina, Monserrat focuses on helping organizations screen & identify structural inefficiencies and barriers that hinder mission alignment with core values of diversity. In partnership with organizational leaders and executives, Monserrat assists with the design of new initiatives and programs that optimize community engagements. At the core of Monserrat’s diversity work, she incorporates an intersectional analysis grounded in the importance of coalition building, giving keen attention to the ways in which organizations and people are related. 

Monserrat Padilla is most excited about measuring social impact, assessing community needs, advocating for social justice policies across philanthropic, governmental, private, and non-profit entities. You can often find Monserrat planning and speaking at conferences and events that uplift the resilience of historically and currently disenfranchised communities. 

For over 12 years, Monserrat Padilla has been organizing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and immigrant communities on the ground with a vision to build collective progressive movement power. She is currently the Director of the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN), a powerful immigrant-led network with over 250 organizations in 26 counties across Washington state. At WAISN, Monserrat focuses on protecting and advancing the power of immigrant and refugee communities through a multiracial, multilingual, and multi-faith coalition. 

Monserrat was named by Seattle Magazine as one of the “Most Influential People in 2018” and was the recipient of the Leadership on Immigration Reform Award by the National LGBTQ Task Force in 2015. 

Monserrat’s most proud and latest movement victory involved her mustering a state policy win that brought $40 million dollars in COVID19 relief funding for undocumented residents of Washington state. 

Jainey JungYeon Kim, who goes by she'/her/hers pronouns, is a Korean American, feminist teacher, doctoral candidate, and Senior Advisor on social impact strategy at Consult Catalina.

Jainey has over five years of experience educating young adults on how to build a better, diverse, and more welcoming world. At the University of Washington Jainey is known for her cutting edge curriculum and liberation pedagogy. Her research analyzes contemporary multimedia, video, and staged performance works that feature yellow feminine subjects to ask how Asian American womxn are racialized and gendered through narratives of temporal excess. She holds an M.A. in Feminist Studies from Georgia State University and a B.A in English from the University of California, Irvine.

Jainey is an expert storyteller, who prides herself in engaging visuals and multi-outlet media strategies to champion client priorities. She is also an illustrator, musician, and photographer who focuses on portraiture and themes of opacity and legibility in her works.

Victor Esteves is a queer, Venezuelan, immigrant, political operative, Latin American expert, and Sr. Advisor at Consult Catalina on reputational risk management and social impact strategy. Victor uses he/him pronouns and has worked as an Associate at Albright Stonebridge Group, where he advised global startups, fortune 200 companies, and private foundations in a wide range of sectors, including health and life sciences, technology, energy, and telecommunications. 

 Victor designs and implements engagement, advocacy, and communications strategies to support progressive policies, enacting transnational, migration, racial, gender, queer, economic, and reproductive justice agendas while working closely with local, regional, and national leaders and organizations.

 Victor is an expert in Latin America and informs issue and electoral campaigns, transnational leaders, CEOs, and policymakers on political, economic, regulatory, and trade policy. He has worked on electoral and issue campaigns for Democratic candidates, designing and implementing engagement, advocacy, and communications strategies to support progressive policies.


 Victor earned a B.S in Biology and a B.S. in Political Science and Government from the University of Houston in Texas. He is both fluent in English and Spanish

Samantha is a proud Jewish woman in tech, Senior Advisor at Consult Catalina, and Product Manager, who has spent her career championing diversity and inclusion in building digital products for some of the world's top companies, including Google, American Express, and Tinder.

Samantha goes by she/her/hers pronouns and spent two years leading the International Product team at Tinder, where she worked to study dating cultures around the world to adapt the app for a global population.

Samantha has spoken at international conferences such as Elevate about the importance of building products that are usable by all people, and she is passionate about making sure everyone feels welcome when they use a product, accounting for various social localities, experiences, and identities. Samantha has been featured in global publications such as Vogue, Wired, and Techcrunch for her cutting-edge developments in technology, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University with a major in Psychology and minors in Chinese and Justice & Peace Studies. Samantha also holds a Graduate Certificate in Web Design and Development from the University of Boston.