Quetzal Flores

Quetzal Flores (he/him) is a Chican@ musician, producer, cultural strategist, and organizer raised in East Los Angeles. He is the founder and musical director of the Grammy Award–winning Chican@ band, Quetzal. Shaped by his family, mentors, and the vibrant Chican@ arts and cultural community—as well as his work in prison education—Quetzal has been part of transformative cultural movements on local, transnational, and international levels.

Through his work with Community Power Collective and across broader movement networks, Quetzal helps reconnect communities with ancestral and diasporic cultural practices that foster interdependence, joyful embodiment, accountability, and resistance to systems of oppression.

He is deeply committed to cultivating strong, trust-based relationships within and beyond his professional circles as a foundation for collective healing and transformation.