Livier Delgadillo is a community-centered leader, strategist, and consultant with more than ten years of experience advancing educational equity, leadership development, and place-based economic development across Arizona and the U.S.–Mexico border region. Livier is founder and principal of LD Collective LLC, where she partners with nonprofits, foundations, and public agencies to provide multilingual grant writing, strategic planning, leadership development, and community engagement support.
Through LD Collective, Livier manages a diverse portfolio of clients across education, immigration, public health, housing, and civic engagement. Her work includes developing bilingual grant proposals and organizational strategy, leading community outreach initiatives, conducting national research on housing and disability services policy, and strengthening leadership, recruitment, and operational systems for organizations working at both local and national levels.
Previously, Livier served as vice president of internal affairs, leadership, and culture at ALL In Education, where she led internal operations, budgeting, talent development, and leadership programming across both 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities. She managed a multi-million annual budget, oversaw three leadership programs and designed systems that supported strong organizational culture and staff retention. Prior to this role, Livier served as senior director of leadership programs, directing flagship leadership initiatives that developed hundreds of community leaders, including elected officials and education advocates.
Earlier in her career, Livier held leadership roles with Girl Scouts of Arizona and Local First Arizona Foundation, where she led membership growth, launched Arizona’s first commercial kitchen incubator for minority women entrepreneurs, and expanded access to capital and small business support.
Livier earned an executive master of nonprofit administration from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Translation and Interpretation and Spanish Literature from the University of Arizona. Born and raised in a border town, she is multilingual and deeply committed to building thriving, inclusive communities.