Meet the Team
Executive Director
a.t. Furuya
(they/them)
An organizer, educator, and advocate with over 20 years experience working in youth advocacy and education, disability, gender, racial, and economic justice movements…
Co-Trainer, Collaborator Specialist and Access Coordinator
melissa kelley colibrí
(they/them)
melissa kelley colibrí is a Deafdisabled queer trans mixed latinx non-binary femme living on unceded Kumeyaay land in San Diego, CA. They work full-time as a disability justice movement worker in the LGBTQ community of San Diego and beyond, ensuring spaces, events, and meetings are accessible for all people with disabilities…
“Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be.”
- Janet Mock