
Our Team
We are a team of highly qualified professionals and efficient, resilient people committed to our communities and vulnerable populations.
Board of Directors: President Wilfred W. Labiosa, PhD; Vice-President, Lisbeth Melendez, Secretary, Carmen Janet Collazo, Treasurer, Jean-Marie Navetta; Members-at-Large: Luigi M. Ferrer and Gary Bonilla.
For additional information
For additional information about Descúbrete, PFLAG and its Community Center for the LGBT+ Older Adult or Reconstruye Q, please contact us at waves@wavesahead.org or call 787.940.8851

Our Team of Professionals
WE WORK FOR A PURPOSE
Wilfred W. Labiosa, Ph.D. – CEO and President
Seil Román, LiCSW, – Director of the Mental Health Program, Exprésate!
Dasiel Baez, PsyD, – Mental Health Therapist
Alanna De La Torres y Lourdes Pérez de Alejo, LiCSW – Mental Health Therapists
Rosa Sevilla – Mental Health Therapist and Case Manager
Orlando Colón and Kimberly Vázquez – Case Managers and Group Facilitators
Doroti Santiago, Bárbara Hernández and Carmen Oquendo-Villar, Ph.D. – Facilitators of Mindfulness, Yoga and Meditation
María Sánchez – Music Therapist Consultant
Rosa Correa – Coordinator of Cabo Rojo Site
Mirelys González – Volunteer Coordinator of Isabela Site
Rossana López – Gerentologist Advisor Consultant
Keyla García, Ph.D. – Nutrition and complementary therapies Advisor
Pedro Julio Serrano – Manager of Development, Grand Writing and Coordinator of Academia Empodérate
Evelyn Gabalda and Herisney Quintana– Administrative Assistants
Diane M. Trinidad – Office Assistant, Community Peer Leader
Victor Ramos – I.T. Assistant
Ivonne Álvarez – Accountant from IAV Accounting Consulting Firm
Olga N. Chapman-Rivera & team of BRAAVE – Communications and Digital Consulting Firm
Practicum Students from:
Ponce Health Sciences University, Program of Clinical Psychology
Universidad Albizu, Program of Counseling Psychology
Universidad Ana G Méndez, Clinical Social Worker Program Walden University, Clinical Social Worker Program Interamerican University, Clinical Social Worker Program

Waves Ahead is a non profit organization with Registration number: 399869; Employer Identification number: 66-0886812; and Registered as a bonafide 501c3 organization number: 26053734001417
Our Supporters (2023)
And many other diáspora members, volunteers and funding partners living in the United States, the Virgin Islands, Europe and Canada.
Claudia Barrios
Orlin Goble
Basil Tilmon y Grant Barnette
Jean-Marie Navetta
Lisbeth Meléndez
Oz Mondejar & John Verlinden Family
Aida Manduley
Jim & Phyllis Campen
J-Manny Santiago & Ferneli Hernández
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Schurian
Roslindale Congregational Church
Steven Toledo
AIDS United
ViiV HealthCare
OUR COLLABORATORS
CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers
Iglesia Cristo para Tod@s
National PFLAG
Puerto Rico Diseña
BRAAVE Puerto Rico, Advertising & Marketing
IAV Financial Consultants
Banco de Alimentos de PR
Ponce Health Sciences University
Ana G Méndez University: School of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Social Work, Cabo Rojo and Carolina Campuses
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Social Work Program
Albizu University in Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Ana G. Méndez University: School of Naturopathic Medicine