Staff & Leadership
SEraph White, Executive Director
Seraph White brings nearly two decades of non-profit experience to the role of Executive Director for Outdoors Empowered Network, and has expertise in fundraising, marketing, and operations. She is passionate about increasing access to nature and the outdoors and is looking forward to finding creative, systemic, and strategic ways to fulfill OEN’s mission. Seraph has an MA in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University and a BA in Environmental Studies from UCSC.
Seraph grew up camping and is passionate about access to the outdoors. She regularly packs her family into a hybrid Toyota Prius C to travel the American West, including over thirty National Parks. She is an alumnae of NOLS semester in Alaska and a long-time student of nature connection and deep ecology. When not camping, Seraph lives in her hometown of San Francisco.
Jacqueline Radilla De La Rosa, Program Coordinator
Jacqueline Radilla De La Rosa was born in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. She and her family immigrated to the US in 1999. She grew up in Leadville, Colorado, an outdoor recreation Mecca visited by tens of thousands of individuals and athletes annually. Like many others, Jacqueline grew up observing the natural beauty that surrounds Leadville without being able to enjoy it for herself. As the eldest daughter in a low-income, catholic, Latino family—she had to fight to be able to recreate in her community. She had to fight with her parents, as they didn’t believe that the outdoors was a place for her. She had to fight with her classmates, as they didn’t understand why She didn’t know how to ski, or where the local ski mountain was. Now, in her adult life, she realizes that there are still many youth and families fighting the same fight she fought back then—which is why she is dedicated to help these individuals find their voice and to enjoy the natural world and to say: “Yes, I belong here.”