Magdalena Prado (she/her) is the Director of Business Development and Community Engagement at Casa Treatment Center – a recovery home for women in Pasadena, CA. Magdalena seeks to use her platform to inform the broader community about the transformational opportunities Casa affords women seeking recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.

Ms. Prado has worked in diverse spaces both in the public and nonprofit sector. She began her career as an aide to former Congressman Edward Royal and LA County Supervisor Gloria Molina. She worked with LAUSD to enlist the support of Southeast Los Angeles communities to build much-needed schools. Following the City of Bell Crisis of 2010, she was a part of a reformative team that brought good-government reform to the City launching a new city website which subsequently won the City of Bell the 2013 Sunny Award for Government Transparency.

Her work in public relations includes her experience with Unidos, a national civil rights nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. and most recently Chapare – a network of public healthcare centers in the San Gabriel Valley.

Ms. Prado holds a M.A. in Urban Planning from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from UC Santa Barbara. She is a former fellow of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, D.C. and is currently working towards her M.S. in Healthcare Management from the California State University at Los Angeles.