Kenia Pinela, M.A.

Kenia Pinela is the Director of Programs and Innovation at Valley Settlement, a nonprofit serving the rural Aspen to Parachute region of Colorado with six two-generation programs designed by and for local Latina immigrant families. Kenia started with the organization in its first year, and has served in various roles – first as a babysitter, then as a community organizer, family educator, and program manager. In 2017, Kenia spearheaded the effort to redesign Valley Settlement’s Family, Friends and Neighbors program, and after ten months of listening and building trust with neighborhood in-home childcare providers, built the program into a robust offering that has supported more than 80 informal in-home providers and hundreds of children in the region to-date.