Marcela Solorzano, M.S.
Marcela Solórzano joined McDaniel Lambert in August 1999. She assists with the development of community relations strategies and project coordination. As part of McDaniel Lambert, Ms. Solorzano also assists with identifying key audiences, their concerns and the most effective outreach strategies. She is in charge of the direct production of communication and community meeting materials, handouts and visual aids as well as the coordination of meeting logistics. Ms. Solorzano brings a multi-lingual and culturally-sensitive contribution to the McDaniel Lambert team.
Ms. Solórzano previously served as Community Relations Coordinator for a geothermal development project in Nicaragua. In this role, she was responsible for addressing health and environmental issues surrounding project development in a rural Nicaraguan community. Ms. Solorzano coordinated the implementation of a community outreach strategy including identifying and analyzing community concerns, meeting community leaders and presenting environmental and health information in a culturally-sensitive manner.
Ms. Solorzano has recently worked on several public outreach projects with the California Department of Toxic Substances (DTSC). This work has included developing Public Participation Plans, community fact sheets, mailers, stakeholder mailing lists and the translation of complex health and environmental documents into colloquial Spanish. She has also established public information repositories for DTSC.
Ms. Solorzano has successfully organized community meetings for environmental projects throughout California. Some of these meetings were in predominately Hispanic communities and were conducted in both Spanish and English.
Ms. Solórzano has a MS in International Relations from Troy State University. She is fluent in Spanish, French and conversant in Portuguese.
