Our Mission is to Promote an Inclusive Climate for Utah's Multicultural Communities.
Our Vision is to Be a Model State by Ensuring Opportunity Building Resources and Services to all Utahns.
About the Utah Division Of Multicultural Affairs
The Multicultural Affairs Office was created by executive order in January 2012. During the 2019 legislative session, a housekeeping bill codified the Office thereby renaming and structuring it as the Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs under the Utah Department of Cultural and Community Engagement, and solidifying its integral role in state law. The Division recognizes the importance of developing relationships with the many different communities throughout Utah in order to achieve its important mission.
Our Pillars
The Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs is invested in promoting greater understanding of connection, opportunity building, and access so that we can support diverse populations that meaningfully impact Utah’s educational system, growing workforce, economy, and quality of life.
Our vision for impact across Utah has translated into three foundational pillars: Youth Leadership, Training Resources and Professional Development, and Community Engagement.
The strategic model was influenced by our increasingly diverse and changing demographics in Utah. This has led us to intentionally focus on empowering emerging leaders and underrepresented communities to support a vibrant and thriving Utah for all.
Through dynamic partnerships that are committed to cultivating communities that celebrate diversity, we believe we can all do our part to ensure people feel like they belong and this is their home—a place to invest in.

Youth Leadership
Build awareness of pathways to higher education and empower emerging leaders to see themselves in spaces of achievement.

Training Resources & Development
Develop capacity building resources to promote an inclusive and welcoming climate in Utah across sectors.

Community Engagement
Collaborate on initiatives that address the needs of and celebrate historically resilient communities.
STAFF

Director
Nubia Peña is the Director for the Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs where their mission is to promote an inclusive climate for Utah's growing diverse community through training, outreach and youth leadership development.
She is a national training consultant dedicated to bringing awareness to intersections of trauma and the School-to- Prison Pipeline, an epidemic that targets our most vulnerable youth by streamlining them into the juvenile justice system.
She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in May 2016. During that year, she was selected as one of 25 law students in the nation to be recognized and highlighted for her social justice activism in the National Jurist, a leading news source in legal education. Due to Director Peña’s longstanding commitment to youth rights, empowerment, and leadership development, she was selected as the recipient of the National Juvenile Justice Network 2019 Emerging Leader Award.
In addition, Director Peña is certified by the National Juvenile Defender Center as a Juvenile Training Immersion Program facilitator. She has actively sought to bring awareness to issues of violence and harm through her personal faith-based and professional endeavors.




STUDENT FELLOWS
Lydia brooks
MCA Student Fellow

Jason CaRrillo
MCA Student Fellow

Luke Sánchez
MCA Student Fellow

Dustin Khong
MCA Student Fellow
