About RQR
Raúl Quiñones-Rosado, Ph.D., social justice educator, author and integral change consultant, offers leadership coaching and consultation services to community organizers, activists and leaders, helping professionals and educators, organizational leaders and others seeking to increase their effectiveness in addressing the complexities of social identity and power dynamics in a diverse society.
For close to 40 years, Dr. Quiñones-Rosado has been committed to personal development and social change. His work focuses on fostering a new kind of consciousness and a new kind of leadership: one that integrates personal self-development, social healing and cultural transformation.
Raúl is founder and co-director of c-Integral, Inc., a social justice leadership development organization based in Caguas, Puerto Rico and Amherst, Massachusetts. He is founder and former co-director of Ilé: Organizers for Consciousness-in-Action, and is a Core Trainer of The People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond’s internationally renown Undoing Racism workshop. He has developed and conducted numerous empowerment, leadership and organizational diversity efforts with low-income community members, college students and educators, government workers and administrators, and corporate executives. Scholar-practitioner and activist-organizer, he is part of an international movement to transform racism, sexism, militarism and oppression in all its forms toward creating integrally sustainable societies.
His book, Consciousness-in-Action: Toward an Integral Psychology of Liberation & Transformation, is required reading in academic programs in psychology, counseling, social work, and social justice education in the US and Latin America. Also used by political activists, community organizers, anti-oppression trainers, integral practitioners and helping professionals, this work has been presented to audiences internationally. Other writings by Raúl have appeared in academic, spiritual, political, and professional publications.
Raúl holds a doctorate in Psychology, specializing in integral and liberation psychologies. He has also been trained in Psychosynthesis counseling, neurolinguistic programming, consciousness studies, healing arts, and anti-oppressive multicultural organizational development. His education is grounded in a lifetime’s work in communities-of-struggle and by a personal practice that includes meditation, journaling, music and photography.
Partner, father and grandfather, Raúl lives with his family in Cayey, Puerto Rico. He travels regularly between Puerto Rico and the United States to work with groups and individuals in both countries.
