Joaquin Razo, MetroEDGE Young Professional of the Year

Joaquin supports Performance Optimization and Business Development for Blue Zones, supporting and leading team members as they transform well-being in communities across the United States.

Prior, Joaquin served as Executive Director for Blue Zones Project Upper Napa Valley. Working with a dynamic team, Blue Zones Project works in communities to build environments where the healthy choice is the easy choice, by supporting the local population, policy advancement, and workplace and organizational systems. At the end of the day Blue Zones strives to build communities where we all live better, longer.

Joaquin also served as the Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for the St. Helena Chamber of Commerce in Napa Valley. Working with over 200 member-businesses ranging from large international winery brands to small local boutique stores. Joaquin has over seventeen years of organizational planning/restructuring; non-profit fundraising; diversity, inclusion & belonging integration; and strategic planning.

Born in San Francisco and raised in Sacramento, Joaquin has a passion for giving back to Northern California. He has served non-profits and various organizations in multiple roles from volunteer, staff member, consultant and board member, including board vice chair United Way California Capital Region, potentially the youngest and first latino in this role, University of San Francisco’s Latinx Alumni Society and Chair/Co-Founder of USF’s PRIDE Alumni, Vox Musica, Sac Metro Chamber Foundation, and serving Sacramento’s Metro EDGE for the last 8 years. Joaquin was also featured as one of Sacramento Comstock’s Magazine 2024 Top Young Professional.

He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco’s McLaren School of Management and was highlighted as a top graduating Changemaker. As well as a graduate of Gonzaga University with a master’s in organizational leadership with a concentration in Global Leadership. He was a Gonzaga scholar and given the opportunity to study in Belgium with the Brussels European Forum sponsored by NATO headquarters.