Patricia Arzuaga, Esq.

Senior Counsel

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan

As Senior Counsel at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Patricia provides legal and business advice to Kaiser Permanente clients on a broad range of state and federal legislative and regulatory issues relating to the delivery and coverage of healthcare services, as well as the operations of health maintenance organizations.  She also provides advice regarding Kaiser Permanente’s charitable healthcare coverage and community benefit programs.

Prior to her position at Kaiser, Patricia served as an attorney and as an advocate in health benefits law and policy at the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, America's Health Insurance Plans and the Groom Law Group.  Patricia is of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, receiving her college and postgraduate education at Yale College and Harvard Law School, respectively.

Patricia has called Prince George's County home for nearly 30 years and has been active in the Latino community throughout that time, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Latin American Youth Center/Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers and Casa de Maryland, Inc.

Carmen Camacho

VP and Owner

Bud Miller Associates, Inc.

Mrs. Carmen Camacho runs a successful county-based small business.

She is of Cuban descent and earned her A.A. degree from Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, NC.

As part of her civic engagement, Mrs. Camacho has served on the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce, the Silver Spring Urban Advisory Committee, Congressman Hoyer’s Service Academy Committee, former Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards' Small Business Committee, the District 21 Scholarship Committee, and was a member of the Washington Adventist Governing Board.

Jeyben Castro

Senior Community Engagement Manager

Washington Gas

Mr. Jeyben Castro currently serves as the Senior Community Engagement Manager for Washington Gas.  In this role, he oversees Hispanic Engagement for all their territories; Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia.  With a long history of public service, Mr. Castro worked on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee for 5 years, served in the U.S. Navy for 10 years, promoted corporate citizenship as a Public Affairs Manager for a Fortune 500 company for 9 years, and in 2012 joined the presidential election as one of six Hispanic Outreach Directors in charge of the Hispanic vote.

Mr. Castro resides in Oxon Hill, Maryland, was born in El Sauce, Nicaragua, and migrated to Miami, Florida when he was ten years old.  He is a board member of Latino Student Fund (an education-based nonprofit), an advisory member for the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute at George Washington University, and a graduate of George Mason University.

Lupi Quinteros-Grady

President and CEO

Latin American Youth Center (LAYC)

In June 2018, Mirna (Lupi) Quinteros-Grady stepped into the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Latin American Youth Center (LAYC), a nationally recognized, community-based youth development agency in Washington, DC.  Founded in 1968, LAYC expanded into Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in 2005, establishing the Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers (LAYC/MMYC).

LAYC empowers a diverse population of youth to achieve a successful transition to adulthood through multicultural, comprehensive, and innovative programs addressing youths' social, academic, and career needs.  Programs include education, counseling and treatment, case management, community wellness, workforce readiness, housing, art and media, and healthy recreation.  In fiscal year 2018, LAYC served over 5,300 youth, ages 14-24, in DC and Maryland.  Forty-eight percent were Latino, 39% were African American, 25% of youth (1,125) were from Prince George’s County, and all were low-income.

Lupi was born in El Salvador and has worked in the field of youth development for 20 years. She has implemented a variety of programs such as Upward Bound and AmeriCorps, and served as LAYC/MMYC’s Managing Director prior to her current position.  She was appointed to the Maryland Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism from 2008-2010 and is a graduate of the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington’s future executive directors fellowship program.  She also served for four years on the Prince George’s County Board of Education, representing District 2.  She received a Master’s Degree in bilingual and special education from The George Washington University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Goucher College.

Lena M. Hernandez

Senior Director, External Affairs & Administration

D&P Creative Strategies, LLC

Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mrs. Lena Hernandez moved to the DMV area in 2000 to pursue her passion to improve life conditions for underserved youth by working on issues that impact the LGBTQ and Latinx communities.  She has worked at the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC), and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI).

In 2006, Mrs. Hernandez joined the powerhouse Latina Duo, Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino, founders of D&P Creative Strategies.  There, she has spent the last 13 years “guiding the giving” and managing third party efforts by helping clients build strategic and long-lasting partnerships with both local and national organizations in multicultural communities. Mrs. Hernandez is of Mexican descent and currently resides in District 9 with her wife and four-year-old daughter.

Nancy Leon

Youth Development Worker

La Clinica del Pueblo

Nancy was born and raised in Hyattsville, Maryland, and her parents are from Guatemala and El Salvador.  She graduated from Wheeling Jesuit University with a B.A. in International Studies and Political Science.  She lived in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, for a year teaching 9th and 10th graders. 

Nancy has experience working with youth in Prince George’s County through her work with the Northern Gateway Soccer Club and community organizing surrounding public schools.  She currently works as a Youth Development Worker for La Clinca del Pueblo’s Mi Refugio Program at Northwestern High School.  In her free time she enjoys taking yoga, pilates classes, and eating lots of great food.  

Felipe Ordoño

Assistant Commander of the Criminal Investigation Division

Prince George’s County Police Department

Captain Felipe Ordoño joined the Prince George’s County Police Department in 1999.  In his 20-year career, he has worked in a variety of assignments and is currently the Assistant Commander of the Criminal Investigation Division, which includes the Homicide and Robbery Units.

Captain Ordoño is of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, is fully bilingual and was certified as a Spanish-speaking translator in 2005 by the U.S. Department of State (Foreign Affairs Training Center).  Prior to law enforcement, he served in the United States Army from 1993-1996.

César Moreno-Pérez

Associate Director of the Human Rights and Community Relations Department

American Federation of Teachers

Mr. Moreno-Pérez has spent most of his professional career working at the intersection of education, human rights, and workers’ rights addressing key issues impacting communities of color. 

He has led several national and statewide issue campaigns on social, educational and economic justice issues.  Mr. Moreno-Pérez has also worked with educators (across the continuum of public education), school districts and universities leading professional development sessions on the rights of immigrant youth and families in both urban and rural settings.

His work has also taken him to lead discussions in Europe, North, Central and South America about the treatment of immigrant youth and the rights of educators.  Mr. Moreno-Pérez is of Mexican descent, a native of the central valley of California, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

Marlen Cruz is a Special Assistant to Dr. George Askew, our Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for Health, Human Services, and Education.  She was initially a health policy intern under Dr. Askew in early 2019.  Marlen is a first-generation Salvadoran-Honduran American and a first-generation college graduate.  She graduated with her bachelor’s degree in public health science from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD).

At UMD, she was an active member of Students Engaged in Public Health and Phi Alpha Epsilon, and interned as a birth registrar’s assistant at Washington Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park.  She completed her senior thesis on factors contributing to childhood obesity in the Latinx population of the United States.

Marlen is working closely with our Health Department, Department of Family Services, and Department of Social Services on health policy for the County Government.  She hopes to become a sexual health and reproductive rights educator, a community health worker, and one day, a public health college professor.

Marlen was born, raised and educated in Prince George's County, graduating from the County's Academy of Health Sciences at Prince George's Community College.  We are Prince George's Proud to have Marlen as part of our team!