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Dr. Juan Carlos Ruiz Guajardo is passionate about fostering diversity and advocating for equity and social justice. He became a racial healing circle practitioner in 2018 after completing training from the Attitudinal Healing Connection Oakland and the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at UC Davis. In 2019, he completed further training as a Belong circle practitioner with Sacramento ACT and since then has actively participated and coordinated multiple community dialogues regarding race and reconciliation, religion-faith-spirituality, ethnic identity and social inclusion. Currently, as an aide at the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento, Dr. Ruiz is helping to develop stronger networks of collaborations that can foster equal opportunities in the arts and education, as well as to protect vulnerable communities, facilitate effective conversations among local and regional authorities, and construct bridges among migrants and human rights organizations across northern California.
Juan is an evolutionary ecologist with a strong interest in understanding how species interactions structure ecological communities. Over the last decade, he worked in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, investigating various aspects of the evolution and ecology of mutualisms, and through his work, he now attempts to apply this knowledge to help create better-connected and more robust interactions within communities. Dr. Ruiz Guajardo earned his Master’s in Applied Ecology to Conservation Biology from the University of East Anglia (England), his PhD in Evolution and Ecology from Edinburgh University (Scotland), and was a postdoctoral research fellow and a research project scientist at University of California in Davis. Since 2022, Juan Carlos has served as a community ambassador helping the Neighboring Development Action Team of the City of Sacramento to communicate more effectively and better serve the Hispanic communities across the Sacramento region. His passion for social activism, acting and singing has moved Dr. Ruiz to participate and collaborate with non-profits, cultural organizations, theatre companies and artistic projects seeking to establish art as a vehicle for education, inclusion and to challenge negative stereotypes and discrimination.
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