Our Purpose
Cambio Integral offers workshops, training, and services to community organizers, social activists, cultural workers, educators and students, helping professionals, institutional leaders, public policy makers, business managers, workers, and others concerned with racial equity, social justice who are committed to deep cultural changes throughout our society.
To this end, we help participants to:
Think holistically, integrally
Appreciate other ways of knowing, being & doing
See the big picture, from multiple perspectives
Envision desirable futures
Consider multi-issue struggles
Examine the power of language and narratives
Build solidarity
Explore and reconcile contradictions
Expand historical lenses of analysis
Choose ethical responses
Comprehend dynamics of power, personal and collective
Imagine radical Love
Release reactivity
Navigate intersectional identities
Understand the developmental nature of change
Embrace the unknown
Develop emotional stamina for genuine relationship
Grasp complexity
Nurture collective self-care
Create a paradigmatic shift!
ABOUT OUR FOUNDER
Cambio Integral was founded in 2005 by Raúl Quiñones-Rosado, PhD.
Dr. Quiñones-Rosado is a liberation psychologist, racial equity trainer, social justice educator, author, and leadership coach. He is co-creator of the Latinx Challenges Toward Racial Justice and Retos en la lucha workshops offered across the United States and in Latin America. Raúl is also a Senior Trainer with the Racial Equity Institute, a national organization based in Greensboro, NC. Through Cambio Integral and REI he works with people in movements across The Americas.
Raúl has been actively engaged in antiracism and liberation struggles since the 1980s. From 1988-1995, he directed Casa Latina, a non-profit in Northampton, MA. There he established the Institute for Latino Empowerment (ILE) where he developed multiple anti-oppression leadership development and community organizing efforts. During this time, he also began to facilitate antiracism workshops, as well as corporate diversity trainings, across the US. Upon his return to Puerto Rico in 1997, he co-founded and co-directed Ilé: Organizers for Consciousness-in-Action (1998-2005), which has since evolved into Colectivo Ilé, a renown collective of Puerto Rican women organizers.
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His book, Consciousness-in-Action: Toward an Integral Psychology of Liberation & Transformation, is required reading in graduate programs in psychology, counseling, and social work, and has been cited by leading scholars in the fields of liberation and critical psychology. Liberation Psychology & Racism, Latinos and Multiracial Americans, Coaching for Liberation and Transformation, and other writings on Latino identity, race policy, social identity development, and psychosynthesis coaching by Dr. Quiñones-Rosado appear in academic books and journals, as well as in other professional and political publications. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Puerto Rico and the US and has presented his work at international conferences.
Beyond earning a doctorate in liberation psychology, Raúl has been a life-long student of transpersonal and integral psychologies, spiritualities, meditation, mindfulness, and consciousness and future studies. He is also trained in psychosynthesis counseling and coaching, neurolinguistic and neurosemantic psychology, as well as martial and healing arts. An avid street and nature photographer, Raúl lives, studies, teaches, writes, co-conspires, envisions desirable new futures, and plays guitar from a quiet little nook in the mountain forest of Guavate, Puerto Rico.
OUR COLLEAGUES
María I. Reinat-Pumarejo, MEd
Co-facilator and Co-designer Latinx Challenges
María I. Reinat-Pumarejo, MEd, is a training consultant with Cambio Integral and the co-creator of Latino Challenges. Ms. Reinat-Pumarejo is a founder of Colectivo Ilé, a women’s organization committed to anti-racist organizing in Puerto Rico, and was its director for over 20 years. Previously, María co-founded and co-directed the Institute for Latino Empowerment and established the Undoing Racism Organizing Committee in Western Massachusetts. For more than 25 years, she was a Core Trainer with The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a nationally renowned antiracism organization based in New Orleans. She was also Adjunct Faculty at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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With graduate studies in education, counseling psychology, and history, María is contributing author of Arrancando mitos de raíz: Guía para la enseñanza antirracista de la herencia africana en Puerto Rico, Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora, and Palenque: Antología puertorriqueña de temática negrista, antirracista, africanistas y afrodescendiente, and has published numerous articles. Recognized for her expertise on issues of race, women, and culture, she is a frequent public speaker at events across Puerto Rico and the US.
For over 25 years, María has worked closely with women’s organizations in Puerto Rico and internationally to support and join the leadership of other women of color. A member of the International Women Against Militarism Network and other networks, she has represented Puerto Rico at gatherings in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Okinawa, South Korea, Guam, The Philippines, Hawai’i, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. María was among the 1000 Women for Peace, an international group that was nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize and which was awarded the City of Guernica 2006 Award for Peace and Reconciliation. For her decades of anti-racism leadership and solidarity work at home, she was awarded Puerto Rico’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Roundtable 2016 Medal of Honor.
Annie Rodríguez, MEd.
Co-facilitator of Latinx Challenges
Annie Rodriguez, is founder, Manager, and Senior Consultant of Equity Consulting Network, a multiracial, multicultural team of Professional Development Consultants, Trainers, Community Organizers, Social Workers, Mentors, and Life Coaches.
With over 20 years of experience as an anti-racism trainer, Annie has been offering resources to organizations, community-based groups, and individuals that are ready to take a deeper dive into the processes that lead to racial equity and social justice transformation.
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Her work with institutions across the U.S. is to influence racial consciousness, social justice and anti-racism change to work toward the elimination of racial & social inequities. Over the past 10 years, her work has mainly focused on racial identity development, racially equitable organizational development, transformational solutions, internalized racial oppression development, and building authentic personal/community relationships that lead to systemic change.
Annie holds a Master of Education, Interdisciplinary Studies. She is the proud mother of three daughters and grandmother of five beautiful grandchildren. She currently resides in Jacksonville, FL.
Our Friends
We collaborate closely with other local, regional, national and international organizers and organizations to offer these workshops and training. with national, regional and local antiracism educators and organizers to offer these workshops and training sessions.
