Rocio Maritza Quevedo
Biography

Rocio Maritza Quevedo is a certified Bi-lingual Domestic Violence Counselor, Certified Domestic Violence Batterer’s Intervention Facilitator and Certified Parenting Instructor. Rocio has worked with the Marjaree Mason Center for three years. She currently serves as the Outreach Advocate and coordinates the Teen Services. Her duties include community outreach, presenting educational information to various community groups and schools, public speaking engagements, acting as liaison to schools, and facilitating teen, victim, and batterers’ intervention groups. Additionally, she facilitates the certified Department of Family Services’ Nurturing Parenting Program. Previously with the Marjaree Mason Center, she was a shelter Case Manager providing peer counseling, answering hotline calls, and performing assessments.

Rocio also serves as a Youth Leader working with inner city at risk youth under Pastor Michael De Juarez at Cornerstone Church. Rocio has been serving there for 3 years and is currently working as Mentor for the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Initiative under the Cornerstone Foundation.
Rocio was born in Fresno, Ca and raised in the small farming town community of Exeter Ca. Rocio is of Mexican and African descent and was raised in a Mexican American home by her mother and step-father, Maria Carmen and Jose Martin Galindo. There, Rocio was highly involved in her schools leadership programs where she served as the M.E.C.H.A. Club Vice President for 3 years, ASB Treasurer, Drama Team member, Friday Night Live Club member and Leadership Club. Rocio was exposed to Domestic Violence at an early age through her family and personal experiences, which has now caused her to be an Advocate for Women, Men, Children and Teens who have been exposed or are currently experiencing Family or Relationship Abuse.
Rocio is a firm believer that the “Family Foundation” and “Structure” have a big impact on how people interact and react with other people in our society and communities. This is why she has joined in the army of people who are choosing to take a stand against Family Violence and offer opportunities to teach families how to heal, learn, and restructure a negative way of thinking to a healthy one. In turn this will counteract the negative impact on our community that Domestic Violence has caused. Rocio believes that through, education, prevention and awareness on Domestic Violence, people can and will change.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
-Albert Einstein