Candi CdeBaca is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Project VOYCE, Reviver & Member of Cross Community Coalition and Founder & Principal of Rebel Soul Strategies. She is a community advocate in her home community of Northeast Denver. She has been featured as an influential leader and advocate by several publications and outlets including Politico, Fortune, Forbes, New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, 5280 Magazine, Planetizen and Canadian Broadcast Corporation. She has also authored and co-authored publications featured in the Denver Post, Nonprofit Quarterly and Equity Alliance. She is a fierce advocate for equity. CdeBaca has an unwavering commitment to ensuring increased participation of underrepresented groups in the political process and in leadership and decision-making roles across sectors. In her life outside of the justice movement, Candi is a baker, pilot, designer, and all-around handy-woman. She aspires to build a house, launch a clothing line, and own/operate a charter flight company on a tropical island.
What are you looking forward to as a fellow of TLC?
“As an executive leader of color working in the nonprofit industrial complex, it is rare to have the opportunity to re-think our world and plan a new world collectively with others of the emerging majority. The future is literally in our hands as we step into our inheritance as the majority and given the imbalance in the world, the ancestral secrets flowing through our veins is needed now more than ever. I can’t wait to share those secrets and stories and make magic with this cohort! Together we will transform our world!“