While at Cal, she was a campaign intern for the Movement for Family Power and supported the reunification of Black, brown, and low-income families which had been separated by the Adoption and Safe Families Act. She also interned with the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley Law School, edited the Disability Justice issue of Revista N'oj (the Latinx Research Center's undergraduate journal), studied abroad in Chile, and co-founded a Chicana/Latina sorority chapter with her best friends. Most recently, she completed a senior honors thesis in which she critiqued the CARE Act (SB 1338) as a policy which provokes the de-facto criminalization and banishment of unhoused and disabled people of color in California. Quetzal loves dancing, sunbathing, watching Nacho Libre, and reading magical realism.