Beatriz Soto has dedicated two decades to the intersection of community building, social justice, and climate stability. As an award-winning architect with LEED certification, Beatriz has spearheaded numerous high-performance and sustainable projects. Her passion for climate and environmental justice extends to her role as an architect and workforce educator, where she has developed and led professional and workforce development workshops in the United States and Mexico.
Previously serving as the Director of Defiende Nuestra Tierra for The Wilderness Workshop and as a co-founding member of Voces Unidas de las Montañas, Beatriz now leads the Community Engagement Team for Conservation Colorado, whose mission is to protect Colorado’s climate, air, land, water and communities; through organizing, advocacy and elections.
In 2021, Beatriz was appointed to represent Disproportionately Impacted Communities in Congressional District 3 on the Colorado Environmental Justice Action Task Force. She also co-chaired the Cumulative Impact Analysis working group. Beatriz proudly represented the United States as a member of the delegation at the 2022 World Forestry Congress in Seoul, South Korea, where her work in elevating diverse, historically excluded voices in conservation and the future of U.S. mountain west resort economies garnered global recognition. She also served on the Resources Advisory Commission for the Northwest region of the Bureau of Land Management. In 2023 she was awarded the Environmental Justice Warrior Award by the NAACP.
Recently Beatriz was certified as a liberatory coach and is currently enrolled in a The Master of Arts in Ecological Psychology.