"She Doesn't Deliver Keynotes.
Teresa Valenzuela Lays The Foundation."
For more than two decades, Teresa Valenzuela has built infrastructure where markets failed to serve communities. From closing the digital divide to advancing accessibility and mobility equity, her work has focused on one question: How do we ensure technology serves everyone?
Mission
Every driver assumes infrastructure will be there when they need it. Powered mobility users cannot make that assumption.
We exist to change that.
Teresa spent 33 years as a power wheelchair user before she founded the company that would fix what everyone else had overlooked. She is developing patent-pending technology, building municipal partnerships across San Diego, and preparing to take Well-Able to a national stage. Her credential is not a degree. It is three decades of knowing exactly what needs to be built.
Vision
We are building the infrastructure layer that enables powered mobility users to move through every city with confidence, independence, and dignity.
David Favela describes the Elevate Program and highlights Teresa Valenzuela
1999 – 2025
26 Years of Impact
ESG Stats:
70,000+ Computers distributed across San Diego County
6.5M lbs. E-waste diverted from landfills
2,500+ Nonprofits served with free technology
4,500+ Foster families & transitioning youth served
Thousands Of hours of digital instruction delivered
1M+ Residents impacted regionally
26 Years of Bridging The Digital Divide
The SDFF Tech-Express Mobile Lab Unit: grant-written, designed, and wrapped by Teresa A. Valenzuela. Sponsored by the County of San Diego and Las Patronas. When geographic barriers kept communities from accessing technology, Teresa did not wait. She brought the infrastructure to them, across every corridor of San Diego County. Improving Lives Through Technology.
San Diego Futures Foundation
For a decade, Teresa built infrastructure where others raised awareness. At San Diego Futures Foundation she co-produced one of San Diego County's most consequential digital inclusion programs, placing technology, training communities, and coordinating county-wide media relations across San Diego's major television networks.
Media Relations Coordinated
KUSI NewsNBC 7 / Channel 10 / Fox 5 San Diego / KPBS
Co-Produced with San Diego County HHSA · 7 Years
Candid Platinum Seal · 7 Consecutive Years
Live Well San Diego · 10 Seal
$600K+in grants authored and co-authored
District 4 Neighborhood Reinvestment Grant 2024
SDFF Tech-Express Mobile Lab Unit
Free Laptops Open a New Path to Success for Foster Youth
24 Years!
For the 24th year in a row, the County of San Diego and the San Diego Futures Foundation to provide foster youth with laptops that will help them keep pace in a technology driven world and support their educational needs.
"The digital divide didn't close because we raised awareness. It began to close because someone showed up, with hardware, with training, with the trust of the community, and with the refusal to accept that some people simply get left out. That is the only playbook I know. I am running it again."
Teresa A. Valenzuela · Founder, Well-Able Platforms
TedX San Diego
Keynote Speaker, California's $6.5B Middle-Mile Broadband Initiative
Teresa stood at the podium for one of the largest public infrastructure investments in CA history: the groundbreaking of a 10,000-mile broadband network designed to connect every Californian.
Construction began in San Diego County. Read the Governor's Announcement
Why CalebXCharge
After years of accessibility advocacy, one gap remained impossible to ignore:
A powered wheelchair user could travel across a city but had nowhere public to recharge.
CalebXCharge was created to solve that problem by building the first intelligent public charging network designed specifically for powered mobility devices.
The Next 10 Years
The digital divide was one infrastructure challenge.
Mobility access is the next.
Well-Able Platforms is building the systems, partnerships, and technology required to ensure powered mobility users can move through cities with the same confidence that drivers expect from gas stations and EV charging networks.
“I had the honor of meeting Teresa at a recent Poway, San Diego County broadband middle mile groundbreaking event. She’s articulate, an inspirational public speaker, and is truly passionate about making a difference in the lives of unserved and underserved Californians.”
“I worked with Teresa at Toastmasters in San Diego, and the pace of her growth and commitment to excellence every week were exceptional. I can only imagine how far she will go.”