Yey Morales

Program Coordinator | Department of Race and Equity, City of San Diego

Pronouns: they/them

Yey Morales (they/them), is a Queer Non-Binary Latinx person originally from La Puente, California. They received a Master’s degree in Higher Education and Organizational Change from UCLA and a double Bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies and Urban Studies & Planning from UCSD. Yey Morales is currently a Program Coordinator with the City of San Diego’s Department of Race and Equity. They previously worked in higher education and served as Assistant Dean of Students at Claremont Graduate University and also led the Youth Services Team at the San Diego LGBT Community Center before transitioning into local government.

Presentations from Facing Race 2024

Transforming Local Government Through Equity-Centered Coaching

"Transforming Local Government through Equity-Centered Coaching" will focus on the ways the Department of Race & Equity at the City of San Diego has implemented an equity-centered coaching program. A portion of this session will be dedicated to sharing the system that was created to shift the organization’s thinking about equity in departmental decisions on policy, budget, and programming.

Participants will then be broken out into small groups to engage in an experiential activity that will help demonstrate the importance of coaching and the skills needed to effectively coach department leaders. Lastly, session attendees will walk away with ideas on how they might begin to set up a coaching program in their organization or government entity. This will include some tools that can be replicated in their own institution.

Speakers: Yey Morales, Grace Bagunu, Lisa Ann Kim