Becky Palacios has over 20 years of social responsibility and supply chain experience in numerous roles including quality systems, training, supplier and vendor relationship management, operations, and as an assessor. Prior to joining ARCHE Advisors, she supervised over 5,000 licensees and vendors in North America for the Walt Disney Company International Labor Standards group. She also previously directed the Audit Analysis team at Disney, overseeing 14,000 audits each year. Additionally, Becky formerly worked for UL as Quality Systems Manager and STR Responsible Sourcing as the North America Operations Manager.
Becky has conducted over 1,000 social, agricultural, management systems, and environmental health and safety assessments in 20+ countries across a wide range of industries. Becky’s ground-level understanding of social responsibility assessment, combined with her experience managing large teams with various levels of complexity, bring a balanced perspective to the challenge of managing a global team of assessors.
Becky has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and psychology from California State University, Los Angeles. She is a Certified Social Compliance Auditor (CSCA) through APSCA and fluent in English and Spanish.