Helena Pasquarella is a lifelong organizer and advocate for peace and social equity. Helena's advocacy for people and justice began when she was a child.

Her concern for social justice issues dates back to her travels as a young child to Brazil, her mother's homeland, where she witnessed the extreme poverty of the shantytowns daily and the austere conditions of the farm workers in the interior. This deep divide was unacceptable, considering the contrast of wealth she saw in her homeland in Los Angeles, where she grew up. She always knew that She had to contribute to alleviating the situation of people experiencing poverty wherever She lived. In high school, She wrote my final English term paper about the conditions of Mexican factory workers. She pursued college to work at the United Nations to help impoverished children.