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!
Lucy (Alyssa) Larson
She/her - Social Media Coordinator
alyssa@stonewallchico.org
Lucy has been working at Stonewall Chico since 2016. She’s held many roles including Center Coordinator, Events Coordinator, and now Social Media Coordinator. For most of her time at Stonewall, Lucy has gone by Alyssa - but she’s recently taken on her nickname fulltime. Lucy loves Chico and considers it her hometown, though she now lives in San Francisco and works remotely.
Lucy’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. She is happy to say she continues to work in all of these fields, in various positions. She is passionate about facilitating change and joy through collective experience, and about giving voice to those who are often silenced.
Blue Martinez
He/him - TGNC (Trans & Gender Non-Conforming) Program Coordinator
blue@stonewallchico.org
Blue is originally from Southern California, but moved to Chico 5 years ago to attend California State University Chico. At Chico State he worked at Chico State's Gender and Sexuality Equity Coalition and participated in a multicultural fraternity where he served as President. He is excited for his new role at Stonewall as Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Program Coordinator, and hopes to expand Stonewall Chico's gender-affirming care programs and especially to increase resources for Trans and Gender Non-conforming People Of Color.
During his free time, Blue is a Pokemon trainer and loves collecting Pokemon.
Tiffani Lang
she/her - Board Chair
SACboard@stonewallchico.org
Tiffani (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and mental health therapist here in Chico. Tiffani has been honored to serve on the Stonewall Board of Directors since June, 2019. Coming to the end of her 6 year term, she is thankful for the time and energy she has been lucky enough to share with Stonewall, which has come back to her tenfold in the immeasurable growth and sense of community she has gained. She enjoys spending her leisure time with her partner, her teen and adult kids, and feels especially at home in the forest, near the ocean, or meandering the trails in Upper Park.
Shelby Hebert
she/her - Advocacy & Education Coordinator
shelby@stonewallchico.org
A settler in unceded Mechoopda territory since 2017, shelby plays and works in the watersheds of the North State. She's animated, by mostly passion and also anxiety, to work for social justice in all its forms--racial justice, food justice, environmental justice, disability justice, and so on. Through a number of jobs over the years, shelby has played and learned with thousands of students through recycling, compost, and environmental 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. You can see she has a hard time making up her mind about what she wants to be when she grows up.
She 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.
