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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ana Maria Archila
Co-Executive Director, MRNY

Natalia Audi, Co-Chair

Deborah Axt
Co-Executive Director, MRNY

Oona Chatterjee
Associate Director, New York City Organizing, Annenberg Institute for School Reform

Augusto Fernandez
Workplace Justice Project Leader, Brooklyn, MRNY

Andrew Friedman
Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy

Claudio Felipe Idrovo
Environmental Justice & Housing Project Leader, Queens, MRNY

German Jaramillo
Director, ID Studio Theater

Enriqueta Leal
Civil Rights & Immigrant Power Project Leader, Staten Island, MRNY

Ng’ethe Maina
Executive Director, Social Justice Leadership

Carlos Martinez
Education Justice Project Leader, Brooklyn, MRNY

Jennifer McAllister-Nevins

John McMonagle
Senior Analyst, Glenview Capital Management

Margarita Mendoza
Education Justice Project Leader, Queens, MRNY

César Palomeque
Civil Rights & Immigrant Power Project Leader, Queens, MRNY

Diana Pasto
Youth Power Project Leader, Queens, MRNY

Ben Posel
Architect and Educator, Posel Design Works

Gladys Puglla, Co-Chair
Environmental Justice & Housing Project Leader, Brooklyn, MRNY

Barry Rosenstein
Founder and Managing Partner of JANA Partners LLC

Hector Sanchez
LGBTQ Justice Project Leader, MRNY

Irania Sanchez
Civil Rights & Immigrant Power Project Leader, Brooklyn, MRNY

Guillermo Serna
Workplace Justice Project Leader, Queens, MRNY

Justin Serrano
Youth Power Project Leader, Brooklyn, MRNY

Javier Valdes
Co-Executive Director, MRNY

Vilma Vallejo

Assistant Vice President and Store Manager for TD Bank & Hispanic Chamber of Commerce



STAFF

CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Ana Maria Archila
Deborah Axt
Javier H. Valdés

DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Theo Oshiro

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Hilary Klein, Strategic Campaigns Director
Karina Claudio-Betancourt, Lead Organizer
Daniel Coates, Lead Organizer
Julissa Bisono
Ana Chireno
Bianey Garcia
Saul Lopez
Ivan Luevanos
Vicente Mayorga
Melissa McCrumb
Nieves Padilla
Nicholas Petrie
Placida Rodriguez
Angel Vera
Yorelis Vidal

LONG ISLAND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE
Daniel Altschuler, Coordinator
Steven McFarland

YOUTH & SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS
Sarah Landes, Director
Natalia Aristizabal
Jaritza Geigel
Jose Lopez
Natalia Lopez
Giovanni Matos
Jessica Taube

LEGAL & SURVIVAL SERVICES AND HEALTH ADVOCACY
Lorelei Salas, Director
Marika Dias, Managing Attorney
Magdalena Barbosa, Supervising Attorney
Rebecca Telzak, Health Advocacy Supervisor
Cynthee Cortes
Stephen Cha-Kim
Young Choi
Sara Cullinane
Julia Dietz
Alejandra Dominguez
Nubia Duque
Claudia Garzon
Danielle Grant
Nicholas Katz
Ezra Kautz
Mary Lebron
Benjamin Locke
Doris Mejia
Blanca Palomeque
Tania Regalado
Maria Romani
Sebastian Sanchez
Alexandra Sanjuan
Alexia Schapira
Kevin Varela
Aura Zuniga

ADULT LITERACY
Julie Quinton, Director
Jessica Andrade
Berenice Arriaga
Ashley Bisono
Carol Cage
Jessica Carmona
Gabriel Chavez
Elizabeth Gonzalez
Patricia Hernandez
Lizelena Iglesias
Carolina Munoz
Monica Robles
Luz Rojas
Sandra Cortes

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Saduf Syal, Coordinator
Arturo Archila
Luisa Arias
Jerry Dickens
Phillipe Kleefield

ADMINISTRATION
Arlenis Morel, Director
Susana Crawford
Nena Flores
Antonia Genao
Stephany Guardado
Yamile Henry
Monica Navarro
Berto Nolasco
Lorena Ospina
Pablo Ovalles
Yolanda Palacios
Charline Paredes-Cabrera
Danilo Perez
Lizbeth Perez
Zorylaine Perez
Manuel Rodriguez
Patricia Suarez
Fenix Suero

FINANCE & HUMAN RESOURCES
Nicole Oddo, Director
Jessica Jimenez
Leslie McGhee
Sandra Rendon

DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
Julie Miles, Director
Maria Elena Betancur
Margaret Day
Katie Lyon-Hart
Francisca Montana

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
June Clarke, IT Manager

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The Nation Chronicles MRNY's "Success Through 'Love and Agitation'"

"Today, with 12,600 dues-paying members, MRNY is a unique amalgam of worker center, legal clinic, citizenship school, mutual aid society, policy shop, protest factory and church. Its four offices in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island are an egalitarian oasis for members, who gather there for conversation and classes..."