Cultural literacy.
Strategic community engagement.
Bridging Culture.
Expanding Understanding.
Cultura Strategies helps organizations better understand, engage, and serve culturally diverse communities through cultural literacy, strategic insight, and community-informed engagement.
We help bridge the space between what organizations intend and how communities experience their work - bringing cultural context into the strategies, conversations, and decisions that shape meaningful engagement.
Strategic Focus
Cultura Strategies works at the intersection of culture, strategy, and community.
We bring together cultural insight, strategic thinking, and community experience to help organizations better understand and engage the people they serve.
Led by bilingual strategist Marisa Sanchez DeRossett, Cultura brings a culturally informed, context-driven approach to community engagement. Drawing on cross-cultural lived experience and a background spanning public advocacy, grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and community bridge-building, Marisa helps organizations better understand the people they serve and navigate the cultural context that shapes meaningful engagement.
Angel Rosario, a veteran and technology leader with more than 25 years of experience in DevSecOps, cloud engineering, and cybersecurity, brings a global and technology-focused perspective to Cultura’s leadership team. Shaped by the experience of living in more than 25 countries, Angel brings a broad cross-cultural lens to Cultura’s work and helps translate strategy into innovative, community-centered solutions that expand access and create meaningful impact.
Our work is grounded in a simple belief: effective engagement begins with understanding context. We help organizations look beyond assumptions, recognize the experiences that shape communities, and build strategies that are both culturally informed and practical.
A cultural literacy framework built around a simple principle:
Meaning requires context.
CULTURA: IN CONTEXT helps professionals examine the space between what they observe and what they assume. The framework builds the cultural literacy to pause, seek context, reassess interpretation, and respond more effectively.
LENS ONE | FOUNDATION
How We See
Behavior is observable.
Meaning is contextual.
Learn to distinguish between what is observed and what is inferred, recognize the assumptions that can shape interpretation, and build the habit of pausing before assigning meaning.
LENS TWO | CONTEXT
Who We See
Context informs understanding.
It does not predict behavior.
Explore the dimensions that may shape individual experience and perspective, using cultural context to ask better questions rather than predict what a person believes, values, or does.
LENS THREE | APPLICATION
How We Respond
Inform the response.
Don’t prescribe it.
Apply cultural literacy within real-world professional settings, using context to inform interpretation, communication, engagement, and response.
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Whether you're looking to strengthen cultural literacy, better understand the communities you serve, or build a more effective community engagement strategy, we'd like to hear what you're working on.
Let's explore how cultural context and thoughtful strategy can help you move forward.