Bamby Salcedo

President & CEO

Los Angeles, California

Bamby is a national and international transgender Latina Woman who received her Master’s Degree in Latin@ Studies from California State California Los Angeles. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for Trans people in Los Angeles. Full Bio


Salma Andrews Marmolejo

Central Co-Chair

Houston, Texas

Mi nombre es Salma Marmolejo mujer transexual Nacida en "NADA ES FACIL EN ESTA VIDA" Sin duda alguna iniciar una transcision no es para nada facil y por lo tanto soy una de Las Fundadoras de un grupo Trans en la ciudad de Houston, Texas, desarrollando asi uno de mis sueños que es ayudar a visibilizar a mi comunidad en mi region. Full Bio


Forever Board Member

Maritxa Vidal

Central Co-Chair

Chicaco, Illinois

I am a Cuban born transgendered female, 56 years old. I have been fighting against the stigma and ignorance in the Latino and Gay community towards HIV/Aids since 1990. I am now a certified Health Educator and Illinois Department of Public Health certified tester and counselor of HIV/Aids/Hepatitis C. Full Bio


Arianna Inurritegui-Lint

East Coast Co-Chair

Florence, Florida

Arianna Inurritegui-Lint, is a transgender woman originally from Peru were she graduated Law School. She is been working for the Florida Health Department in the field of HIV/AIDS since 2006. As a transgender woman she has seen firsthand how her own community has been ravished by this life altering disease. Full Bio



Paola Coots

Administrative Director

San Diego, California

Paola Coots is a Latina transgender-identified woman who was born in the big city of Monterrey in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico and currently living in San Diego, CA, USA. She started helping Translatin@s as bilingual case manager/outreach worker at the Family Health Centers of San Diego with Project STAR as of May 2007. Full Bio


Alexa Rodriguez

Director of Membership

Hyatsville, Maryland

Alexa Rodríguez is a native Salvadorian trans woman who has been living with HIV for about 16 years. At the beginning of her diagnosis Alexa felt discouraged and felt as if she was going to die, after five years of her diagnosis she saw that nothing was happening to her and discovered that she wanted to continue to live. Full Bio