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Ana Sofía Peláez

Co-Founder / executive director

Ana Sofia Pelaez is an activist and award-winning food, culture, and political writer who has organized Latino get out the vote efforts since 2016.

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Ana Sofia Pelaez is an activist, community organizer, and NGO executive who has led Latino get out the vote efforts since 2016. Through her nonprofit organization, Miami Freedom Project, she is committed to building a community of leaders capable and willing to change the narrative of what it means to be progressive in Miami. She is also an award-winning food, culture, and political writer. As an advocate for cultural representation, her first cookbook The Cuban Table was nominated for a James Beard award and she also contributed to The Immigrant Cookbook to benefit the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. She has worked in the childhood nutrition equity space and contributed to national media outlets.

Patricia Fábregas

Digital Organizer

Patricia creates communications content with engaging graphics and bilingual copy.

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Patricia creates communications content with engaging graphics and bilingual copy. Patricia is passionate about the power of design and storytelling to shift narratives and build movements.

Richelle Vargas

Civic Engagement Coordinator

Richelle connects and collaborates with multiple communities and organizations across Miami …

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Richelle connects and collaborates with multiple communities and organizations across Miami to create programming that makes civic engagement accessible and equips Miamians with the tools needed  to hold their government, at all levels, accountable. As Civic Engagement Coordinator, Richelle also creates and facilitates speaker trainings, coordinates volunteers, events, and MFP4D's year-round programs, Miami Civics Club and ¡Ciudadanía USA! Richelle is the proud child of Nicaraguan immigrants.

Frances Colón

Chair

Dr. Frances Colón is the Senior Director, International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress. She is the first Latina to serve on the President’s Council. 

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Dr. Frances Colón is the Senior Director, International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress. She is the first Latina to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She is the former Deputy Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State at the U.S. State Department. As a science diplomat in Washington, D.C., from 2006–2017, she promoted integration of science and technology into foreign policy dialogues, global advancement of women in science, and climate change policy for President Obama’s Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. Dr. Colón earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2004 from Brandeis University and her B.S. in Biology in 1997 from the University of Puerto Rico. She currently consults on evidence-based decision-making for governments and scientific civic engagement. Colón was a 2018-2019 City of Miami Climate Resilience Committee member and a 2020 Yale-OpEd Project Public Voices on the Climate Crisis Fellow. She is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and the Global Science Diplomacy Roundtable.

Alana Greer

Alana Greer is the director and co-founder of Community Justice Project. As a movement lawyer, she supports community-led campaigns for racial justice and human rights.

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Alana Greer is the director and co-founder of Community Justice Project. As a movement lawyer, she supports community-led campaigns for racial justice and human rights. Alana is passionate about lifting up the voices of the community members she works with and using her legal and analytic skills to support grassroots movements seeking to dismantle structural racism and inequality. She is an Echoing Green BMA Fellow and an advisory board member for the Dream Defenders, the Law for Black Lives, and New Florida Majority. Originally from Miami, Alana attended Boston College and Harvard Law School, where she was a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and returned home to support youth organizing that arose after the killing of Trayvon Martin. Prior to law school, she was a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and worked with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area to defend individuals from the criminalization of homelessness. 

Carlos Odio

Carlos Odio is a co-founder of Equis, a set of organizations aiming to fill gaps in the understanding and engagement of Latino voters, and leads our research, testing, and analysis.

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Carlos Odio is a co-founder of Equis, a set of organizations aiming to fill gaps in the understanding and engagement of Latino voters, and leads our research, testing, and analysis. Before Equis, Carlos held a number of leadership roles at the nexus of data and political strategy, including as Executive Director for the Florida Alliance, a state donor collaborative, and as Director of Special Projects at New Organizing Institute. Carlos served in the White House Office of Political Affairs, acting as a liaison for Latino leaders, after working as Deputy Latino Vote Director for the 2008 presidential campaign. Before joining the campaign, he managed communications for AlleyCorp, a group of New York-based internet start-ups that included Business Insider and Gilt Groupe, and GALA, an arts non-profit in DC. At American University, he majored in Spanish Studies, focusing on Latin American literature. Carlos is from Miami, FL and currently resides in West New York, NJ with his wife and two daughters.

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