About Us
Confianza Collective® is a bilingual (English/Español) storywork studio that supports community-rooted businesses and programs. We help founders develop storybanks in English or Spanish to increase visibility, trust, and confidence in the programs they’ve built. We also provide consulting services with story documentation and capacity building for community-engaged organizations.
Our Team
Rachel Bloom-Pojar, PhD
Founder & DirectorRachel is the founder of Confianza Collective. She has worked with storytellers, community health leaders, and writers for over 15 years. She was a writing professor for almost 10 years before pivoting out of academia to build Confianza Collective.
Rachel has also worked as a bilingual (English/Español) consultant since 2021 with community engaged programs in reproductive and mental health. Over the years, she worked closely with women founders of community-rooted programs and businesses who had incredible stories to tell, but didn’t have the time or support to get them written down. Confianza Collective creates space for those stories.
Raquel Quevedo
Lead Translator & Writing ConsultantRaquel is a freelance translator who manages translation (English-Spanish) and Spanish language editing at Confianza Collective. She has worked closely with each of the writers for the Cuentos de Confianza project and she provides ongoing support related to social media, blog posts, and storywork projects that required translation. She recently graduated with her Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at UW-Milwaukee where she was a first-generation student with Guatemalan heritage.
You can read more about Raquel here.
Alejandra González
Writing Consultant & TranslatorAlejandra is a bilingual writing consultant and English-Spanish translator who worked with the Cuentos de Confianza project from 2022-2024. She also works in education in Milwaukee.
She is currently working towards a Masters Degree in Applied Linguistics with a focus in Foreign Language Pedagogy with the University of Massachusetts-Boston as a first-generation student. She hopes to make language acquisition accessible for multiple communities and help promote foreign language pedagogy.
Danielle Koepke, PhD
Writing ConsultantDanielle is a writing consultant at Confianza Collective and co-founder of the Cuentos de Confianza project, for which she designed the website.
She has over 8 years of experience in community-engaged research, university writing instruction and tutoring, and collaborations with local community partners. She is currently working on a book project that explores stories of reproductive injustice shared on social media platforms.
Rocio Cornejo-Roderick
Cuentos AdvisorOriginally from Lima, Peru, Rocio is a promotora de salud and advisor for Cuentos programming and community outreach. She also runs a nonprofit organization that provides education and opportunities for women and young people in Peru.
You can read more about Rocio’s story here.
Elida Rebolledo
Cuentos AdvisorElida is a promotora de salud (health promoter) who has worked with the Latino/a/e community for more than 18 years, helping them connnect with resources and teaching them to exercise their rights especially in the area of reproductive justice. She wrote her own story for Cuentos de Confianza to inspire others to also do the same. Elida is an advisor for Cuentos programming and community outreach.
You can read Elida’s story here.