Meet The Team
Deisy Rodriguez
Deisy Rodriguez is our Community Prevention Coordinator. Based at Highland High School, Deisy's role is developing and guiding the coalition’s work in serving as a resource for the area’s parents, students, and other residents. She’ll be helping the coalition’s activities in offering training, technical assistance, and both community- and school-based prevention services. This will include Coalition meetings with community members and are held every month at the high school. Deisy enjoys being outdoor and spending time with her family.
Olga Bautista
Olga Bautista is our Bilingual Student Assistance Professional (SAP) and the Secretary for the coalition. She has been working in substance use field for over fourteen years and as a substance use dependency professional field for over seven years. Her goal is to serve the community by bring education and understanding of the importance of Prevention. This will include education on barriers in the community, how to cope, and gain other skills that will benefit the students. She is also able to work with families and help them continue to build supports and understanding.
She loves her family and spends most of her time with them.
Lupita Carrillo
Lupita Carrillo is our Highland Coalition Chair. Lupita works for Safe Yakima as a Coalition Coordinator. One thing Lupita enjoys about the Highland Community Coalition is the different perspectives and voices working as one team. During her free time, Lupita enjoys doing outdoor activities.
Kate Hotler
Kate Hotler is our Highland Coalition Co-Chair. As the new program director for the growing number of offerings for youth with Tieton Arts & Humanities, Kate is focused this year on strengthening ties with Highland families. She has a background in teaching, human-centered design, and gets nerdy about using data for good, as well as holistic and social determinants of health and in prevention. Kate speaks Spanish, and is very interested in learning and listening without judgement to be of service in our community. Dinner parties and riding bicycles are her favorite wellness tools.