Meet our team!
Justina Sotelo
she/they - Executive Director
justina@stonewallchico.org
Justina was born and raised in California, she moved to New York City after graduating college and worked as a High School educator for the past four years. Their transition to the nonprofit world was inspired by 7 years of experience as a community organizer and advocate. Justina loves being Stonewall’s Executive Director and looks forward to continuing to deepen their relationships with local residents, organizations and businesses in order to best serve the Stonewall Community!
Marisa Diaz
she/they - Community Outreach Coordinator,
Queer Autters Group Facilitator
marisa@stonewallchico.org
Marisa is from here in California, and has lived in Butte County for the past 7 years where she’s had the privilege of building strong relationships in our community and advocating for marginalized groups within it. Marisa has lots of experience working in customer service and office positions, and she serves as the Director of Outreach for Red Bluff Alums for Justice- a nonprofit she co-founded which advocates for the equity and empowerment of BIPOC students at Red Bluff High. They believe their experience will provide them insight into the needs of each individual they encounter, and help them be a great Center Coordinator. She is looking forward to growing into our team and creating her place within the Stonewall Community. We're so glad to have them with us!
Alyssa Larson
she/her - Social Media Coordinator
alyssa@stonewallchico.org
Alyssa has been working at Stonewall Chico since 2016. She’s held many roles including Center Coordinator, Events Coordinator, and now Social Media Coordinator. Alyssa loves Chico and considers it her hometown, though she now lives in San Francisco and divides her time between locations.
Alyssa’s degree is in Organizational Communications and she comes from a diverse background of nonprofit and activism work, event and theatrical production, and community organizing. Alyssa is happy to say she continues to work in all of these fields, simultaneously. She is passionate about facilitating change and joy through collective experience, and about giving voice to those who are often silenced.
Shelby Hebert
she/her - Advocacy and Education Coordinator
shelby@stonewallchico.org
Shelby works and plays in the Big Chico Creek and Butte Creek watersheds, the unceded, current and ancestral land of the Mechoopda people. Through a number of jobs over the years, Shelby has played and learned with thousands of students through environmental, recycling, and compost education across the county. In other places, she's worked with students on home repair and construction projects to get and keep people in affordable housing. She’s also worked with small farmers and faith congregations to grow local food resilience, and she’s worked on ecological projects across the North State. She’s lived between mountains, swamps, and sacrifice zones and near the ocean, and she carries all these places and their people with her.
Shelby loves that she gets to represent Stonewall across the North State and host conversations about gender and sexuality because she is eager to make the world a more hospitable place for queer and trans people, especially youth and teens. shelby believes in live music, mutual aid, rest, art, trees, bicycles, dancing, hugs, books, gardens, play, and oxford commas. You might find her at Stonewall, KZFR, Honky Tonk night, the library, choir practice, or the park; and she'll probably ask you, "Who's that [tree, bird, plant, flower]?!", tell you what she knows about them, and/or ask you what books and podcasts you've been into lately.
Tiffani Lang
she/her - Board Chair
tiffani@stonewallchico.org
Tiffani (she/her) and her family returned to her hometown of Chico, CA in 2012, after spending over a decade living in Canada and New Zealand. They are enjoying everything this beautiful area has to offer, most especially the people and the park!
Tiffani is working toward becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and serves youth and families as a Mental Health Clinician. She spent a year interning with the National Association of Social Workers, lobbying California Congressional Representatives in our state capital to cast their votes in alignment with Social Work values and ethics. She has many personal and professional connections to the LGBTQ+ community, and is honored to serve on the Stonewall Board of Directors.