Quena D. González

Current

• Director of Research and Strategy at The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
• Technology Consultant (part-time) at Semilla, Inc.

Past

• Office Manager, IT Director at U.S. Helsinki Commission (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe)
• Office and Forums Coordinator at The Trinity Forum

Education

• C.S. Lewis Institute
• Christopher Newport University
• Leadership Formation Internship

• Covenant College
• Leadership Institute
• StoneBridge High School

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• Latest project

Quena D. González’s Summary

As an experienced coalition-builder (and compulsive networker) from an international home, I'm constantly looking for opportunities to connect like-minded people in order to see them released into their callings and using their gifts.

I have a strong customer-service background. From international leaders to interns, cooks to church pastors, visionaries to vendors, I excel at relating to people of widely different vocations, personality types, leadership levels and cultural backgrounds. I especially enjoy working on small, mission-oriented teams that give practical expression to visionary leadership.

I advise clients focusing on economic development and environmental stewardship at CDR, a DC-area communications firm. Prior experience includes five years in Washington (3½ of them on the Hill), a decade of self-employment, and more than 15 years of training and employment in various leadership development enterprises.

I live in the Washington area with my wife, our sons and a growing library of children's literature.

Quena D. González’s Specialties:

● Critical thinking and practical idealism
● Skill at serving high-level leaders
● Identifying and cultivating young leaders
● Advising job-seekers and editing resumes, especially for the Hill
● Making technology serve, not dictate, organizational goals

Quena D. González’s Experience

• Director of Research and Strategy

  The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation

  (Religious Institutions industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  http://www.CornwallAlliance.org
  
  The Cornwall Alliance is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. The Cornwall Alliance fully supports the principles espoused in the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat, and other related topics.

• Technology Consultant (part-time)

  Semilla, Inc.

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

  February 1995 — Present (15 years 1 month)

  http://www.semilla.org
  
  Provide on-going technical strategy planning to father's Latin American leadership-development non-profit organization
  ● Traveled as presentation assistant
  ● Taught myself MS Access in order to build the donor database
  ● Provide support to visionary leader with little interest in technical issues

• Office Manager, IT Director

  U.S. Helsinki Commission (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe)

  (Government Agency; 11-50 employees; International Affairs industry)

  March 2003 — July 2006 (3 years 5 months)

  http://www.csce.gov
  
  Senior member of the administrative team serving a unique, 20-member congressional human-rights watchdog agency
  ● Reported directly to the Chief and Deputy Chief of Staff on a $1.25 million annual budget;
  ● Nominated (from a pool of 200 applicants), managed and evaluated 12-15 interns each year; and
  ● Directed a three-year, $300K overhaul of the Commission's technology infrastructure.

• Office and Forums Coordinator

  The Trinity Forum

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  August 2002 — March 2003 (8 months)

  http://www.ttf.org
  
  Sole full-time administrative employee of a leading leadership development think-tank
  ● Interacted well and under deadline with high-level leaders
  ● Operated mail-order bookstore without assistance
  ● Consolidated three part-time positions upon hire

Quena D. González’s Education

• C.S. Lewis Institute

  Fellow , 2004 — 2005

  http://www.cslewisinstitute.org

• Christopher Newport University

  B.A. , History , 2001 — 2002

  http://history.cnu.edu

• Leadership Formation Internship

  Intern and Mentor 2000 — 2000

  http://www.growthdynamics.org/lfi.html

• Covenant College

  2 years , History

  http://www.covenant.edu

  Activities and Societies:

  New City Fellowship, Widows' Ministry, Inner City (student) Ministry

• Leadership Institute

  Student Publications School

  http://www.leadershipinstitute.org

  Activities and Societies:

  Founding editor, high school newspaper

• StoneBridge High School

  Advanced High School Diploma ,

  http://www.stonebridgeschool.com

  Activities and Societies:

  Soccer Team Captain (4 years), Property Prefect [volunteer custodial leader] (4 years)

Additional Information

Quena D. González’s Websites:

• Work
• A client
• Latest project

Quena D. González’s Interests:

● Investing in my wife and son ● Reading, writing and thinking about Christian ethics and the public arena ● Experimenting with web site design ● Playing Pinochle (with family) and Euchre (online)

Quena D. González’s Groups:

● Faith and Law (volunteered for 3 years), CLC

•    WeGetIt.org

Quena D. González’s Honors:

● Best Senior Seminar of the year (CNU History Department) for paper analyzing the worldview implications of competing accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1947-48

Quena D. González’s Contact Settings

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