Marinez Alvarado Rosales (she/her/ella) is the Leadership Development Manager at the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley (LCSV), where she leads multiple leadership and civic engagement programs focused on policy, advocacy, and community power-building, including the Engaged Latina Leadership Activist (ELLA) Program, Policy, Advocacy, Leadership in Action (PALA) Program, Chispanas Program, and civic education courses. Through her work, Marinez supports Latinas and community members in developing the skills, confidence, and political understanding needed to step into leadership and decision-making spaces.

Marinez is deeply committed to building equitable pathways for Latinas and other underrepresented communities into leadership roles, boards, and positions of influence. Her passion areas include access to affordable and accessible healthcare, higher education, career technical education, and immigrant rights. She brings a strong lens of community-centered leadership, systems change, and collaborative problem-solving to everything she does. Marinez brings previous nonprofit board experience and has contributed to organizational strategy, marketing, and financial sustainability through her past board and committee service. Today, she continues to support nonprofit impact through mentorship, including mentoring college students in the Catalino Tapia Scholarship Foundation’s scholarship program.

Before joining LCSV, Marinez served as the Operations and Policy Coordinator at CA EDGE Coalition, where she supported statewide advocacy initiatives advancing workforce development and higher education policy. She has also worked as a Program Assistant at the Dreamer Resource Center at California State University, Sacramento, and as a Policy and Legal Assistant with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), supporting advocacy around immigrant rights, healthcare access, workers’ rights, and education.

A proud Latina born and raised in California’s Central Valley, Marinez brings a values-driven and community-informed perspective shaped by lived experience and a deep understanding of the systemic barriers facing working-class, immigrant, and other historically underserved communities. Marinez holds a BA in Communication Studies from California State University, Sacramento, and a Master of Business Administration from Western Governors University.