Gery Paredes Vásquez

Gery Paredes Vásquez (ella, tu, she, her) is a dedicated, proactive, generative, and collaborative organizational leader. A lifelong practitioner with 20 years of experience developing and nurturing strategic collaborations for intersectional racial justice, collective healing, and liberation in the United States and globally.

She is YWCA Madison’s CEO after six years of directing the Race and Gender department. Gery’s connection to YWCA Madison goes back to 2012 when she first volunteered as a facilitator for the Racial Justice series. She later joined the organization as a Race and Gender Equity Coordinator and Manager before becoming the Director of this same department. Under her leadership, this department continued to grow a community of artists, advocates, organizers, educators, and practitioners as collaborators in co-creating offerings such as YWCA Madison’s annual Racial Justice Summit.