Maribel is considered a digital inclusion expert. She has first-hand experience as a digital navigator and has collaborated with HUD-assisted housers nationally to create and implement multi-year digital equity plans. Maribel has worked with industry partners on targeted outreach campaigns around low-cost internet, affordable computers, and digital literacy training for asset-limited people, created and led public-private partnerships across multiple sectors to close the digital divide in cities across the U.S., developed custom computer and tablet training curricula and train-the-trainer programs, worked with stakeholders to build digital inclusion capacity and create talent pipelines into college and tech in communities of color, and she also developed innovative processes to accelerate tech adoption for hundreds of thousands of end-beneficiaries in the United States. Maribel’s traditional and virtual digital skills training curricula for secondary students, working-age adults, and seniors has been adopted in 30 U.S. cities and counting.