Alina is a proud Houstonian who brings several years of donor organizing and progressive infrastructure-building experience to her role as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Texas Future Project.

Alonzo was born and raised in El Paso, Texas and is the son of an immigrant. He has several years of experience organizing around workers rights and immigrant rights. Alonzo believes in dedicating all of his organizing efforts with the goal of achieving collective liberation.

Ambalika is a Campaign Strategist and is currently the Senior Campaign Strategist for Reproductive Freedom at the ACLU. She led the "Shout Your Vote!" campaign at Planned Parenthood and established a communications hub in Harris County. Ambalika serves on the board of Bunnies on the Bayou.

Brenda is a seasoned Community Organizer with extensive experience in program management, policy advocacy, and community engagement. Currently, she serves as a Bail Fund Organizer at Faith in Texas, focusing on decarceration and immigration reform.

Caro is a Community Strategist with over 10 years working for equitable thriving communities through resourcing, trust-building, and collective action. Caro has led state and national programs and advises strategy to build grassroots power. She finds joy in Coahuiltecan food and timba.

Chas Moore is a renowned activist and leader of the Austin Justice Coalition, dedicated to systemic reform and social justice for marginalized communities.

Born and raised along the Texas-Mexico border, Dani Marrero Hi is a bilingual Strategic Communicator and Community Leader based in Mission, Texas. They have over a decade of experience leading issue-based, electoral, and narrative-shifting campaigns. #Puro956

Iman Bouzid is a Lead Organizer with the Texas Organizing Project. She is committed to building people power to empower renters to stand up against corporate slumlords and fight for stronger tenant protections.

Jose A. Palma Jimenez was born in Usulutan, El Salvador. Moved to the United Staes in 1998. He is a father of 4 kids and love to learn new things.

Juan Jose Martinez Guevara is a DACA recipient from Mexico that calls Texas home. He is the Texas Advocacy Manager at United We Dream & advocates for policy change to meet the needs of undocumented immigrant communities in Texas. Juan Jose believes in the abolition of all carceral systems & borders.

Kelle is the Executive Director of allgo, an organization he once volunteered with that celebrates and nurtures queer and trans folx of color through programming rooted in health and wellness, cultural arts, and social justice.

Kelly Ann Gonzalez is a first generation Mexican-American born and raised in the Westside of San Antonio, Texas. She is currently a Labor organizer for AFSCME Local 2021 organizing City of San Antonio Employees for safer working conditions and a live able wage.

Kendra has been with Our Afrikan Family Org. for ten years. In her role as the Director, I focus on building capacity, community engagement, and educating the community about political structure. I'm passionate about fair housing, environmental justice, and community engagement.

Khanay Turner, Esq. is a Fort Worth native and HBCU alum, who leads BJLI. Striving to be the voice of the voiceless, she has an extensive background in government, public relations, and civic engagement."

Maria Reza is a Communications Strategist based in Austin, Texas working to bridge narratives around immigration and criminal justice. Maria is a proud big sister and avid baker.

Miriam was raised in a small rural town in South Texas, and has come to feel the symptoms of the inequities that experienced as a child into her adulthood. Once she became aware of that, it's gave her the fire to organize.

Norma Herrera (she/her) has organized with grassroots coalitions to reduce the use of jails and police, stop border wall construction, and end immigration detention. She has a master’s degree in public policy and resides in the Rio Grande Valley with her dog Timmy.

Odus Evbagharu, a strategist with a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Houston, has extensive experience in political communications, strategic planning, and civic engagement, serving in various key roles within Texas political organizations

Pamela Young is the executive director and lead criminal justice organizer at United Fort Worth, and is committed to helping make Fort Worth into a city that is a great place to live for ALL -- not just the wealthy... and especially for those who have been historically marginalized.

Priscilla is from the border in South Texas and is dedicated to fighting for her community and building systems to protect the rights of immigrants. She has her BA from UT Austin and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Rixi Castillo, born and raised in Honduras were her parents cultivated most of her life with a sense of social justice, care and compassion. This led her to develop these frames of impact in her professional career. She is very excited to be a part of this fellowship.

Roberto is an organizer at the Texas Civil Rights Project, based in Austin, Texas and proudly from the Rio Grande Valley.

Rocío Fierro-Pérez is a Mexican, American, immigrant, queer woman from Austin, TX. As the Political Director for TFN, she directs the legislative, electoral and political strategy, across LGBTQ+ equality, voting rights, immigration, repro, education and other issues at the statewide and local level.

Samantha, a native Texan, has spent the past 5 years organizing in the Texas labor movement. As Deputy Director of Organizing at Texas Climate Jobs Project, she is leading organizing efforts at the intersection of climate and labor in rural, suburban, and urban areas across the state of Texas.

Serita Fontanesi is the Integrated Voter Engagement Director at URGE. She advocates for Black liberation by centering the experiences of Black womxn and femmes. In her spare time Serita hosts Not Ugly Pod, a weekly podcast featuring conversations to challenge how we think about beauty and ourselves.

An immigrant from Veracruz, Mexico, Tania Chavez Camacho is the President and Executive Director for La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) and its political arm, LUPE Votes. Chavez has stood up against the injustices of the borderlands by organizing in the Rio Grande Valley.