Marisa Franco
Latino rights advocate and community organizer
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Marisa Franco is a Latino rights advocate and community organizer. Her activities have centered around Arizona, where she was born, as well as New York and California.[1]
Franco is the co-founder and director of Mijente,[2][3][4] an online organizing tool for Latinx[5] and Chicanx[5] activists.[6][7] Franco led the #Not1MoreDeportation[8] campaign which was recognized in 2014 by the National Organizing Institute as Campaign of the Year.[9] Franco is the Campaign Director at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)[10][11][12] where she actively fought against SB1070 which allowed police to ask anyone in Arizona for their immigration paperwork at routine traffic stops.[13]
She was selected as one of The Advocate's 40 under 40 in 2016.[14] She was an organizer with the People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) in San Francisco, California[15][16] and worked on the campaign to enact the New York Domestic Worker's Bill of Rights.[1]
Mijente
Mijente is a family of organizations including:[17]
- Mijente (501c4) - "Mijente". Internal Revenue Service filings. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
- Mijente Support Committee (501c3) - "Mijente Support Committee". Internal Revenue Service filings. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
- Mijente PAC (political action committee) - Mijente PAC[18] at OpenSecrets
Mijente has run multiple campaigns including NoTechForICE[19]