Abraham Diaz Email and Phone Number

The Immigration Program Coordinator (IPC) is responsible for leadingthe work of MCC Central States within the program area of immigration throughout theCentral States region running from the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas to North Dakota and bordering states. This includes planning and implementing program partnerships,organizing, and equipping congregations and other partners to support migratingpeoples, and to become advocates for immigrant justice in their own communities, andfacilitating educational workshops deepening constituent awareness and understandingof the complex and dynamic issues related to migration and immigration.

As an Immigration Services Provider, I'm responsible for providing our clients with guidance and advice from our immigration attorney and our DOJ accredited representatives on how best to obtain required documentation to migrate internationally or to adjust their immigration status while in the country and how to complete this process smoothly. The main focus of my work is assisting and improving youth's lives through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that was created in June 2012 and assisting families gather documentation, revising documentation, answering questions relating the program's requirements. The duties are working directly with clients on a daily basis, contacting the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding updates and client issues, work with strict immigration timelines and communicate with authorities and the client consistently via email, telephone and in person.Previous Role: Education SpecialistAs the Education Specialist, tasks include managing adult education courses such as U.S. Citizenship courses in Spanish and English, and English as a Second Language in different locations across the Rio Grande Valley region. Created and sustained a partnerships with various non-profits, community colleges/universities and businesses. LUPE's education program focused on creating programs that served and benefits first-generation, immigrant students to obtain knowledge on college-readiness and connection. Previous Role: Civic Engagement Coordinator:Coordinated region wide efforts for La Unión del Pueblo Entero to encourage voters to turn out in various elections. Efforts included multiple voting precincts in Hidalgo and Cameron County in south Texas to outreach thousands of eligible voters, lead groups of election canvassers, coordinate voter turnout events, create and plan voter educational sessions, and Ven-con-Diez efforts that brought inter-personal voter lists to above 70% voting turnout.

Keep San Juan Beautiful provides a link between the citizens of the community, elected officials of the City, and the professional staff of the Planning, Code Enforcement, and Sanitation Department. Duties include:Assist the City Commission in establishing a citywide policy for decreasing the amount of litter in the city.Develop citywide refuse and environmental policy plan(s).Evaluate City actions in light of environmental policy.Recommend enforcement and additional program alternatives to Planning, Code Enforcement, Sanitation Department and City Commission. Monitor City performance from data collected and examined under the Keep American Beautiful, Inc. Affiliate System guidelines and make an annual report to the City Commission.Carry out such other tasks as the City Commission may designate.

Twenty-nine (29) young professional who are leaders in their communities, organizations, and sectors who want to help positively move forward the immigrant community and America by strengthening their skills, relationships, and knowledge as part of a network of leaders guided by Trinity University and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation.Aimed at young professional (in their 20s and up to age 35), the Dream Lead Institute is a year-long leadership development program that seeks –To identify, equip, and advance leaders from diverse backgrounds and communitiesTo strengthen Fellows’ individual leadership skills and help them better understand what it takes to be an effective leader in the 21st century including cutting-edge leadership development approaches such as adaptive leadership, systems change, network analysis, and evidence-based leadership.To create a close-knit national peer network of leaders that will serve as a personal consulting group and “board of directors” for each FellowTo form a powerful environment and culture of trust and safe space where Fellows can openly and honestly present “real-life” leadership challenges they are facing and receive top-notch advice and guidance from their Fellow colleaguesTo deepen and accelerate positive change in their respective communities nationwide through the leadership action of the Fellows.

State of Texas certified pawnbroker in store 00567 in Alamo, Texas. Duties included revising products to determine proper amount for loan, customer service, and other duties. As a certified pawnbroker, I specialized in buying merchandise of value, making loans to individuals using tangible property as collateral, and in some cases, running a storefront operation to resell collateral pieces not recovered by owners. While working for Cash America, I was part of the transition team in store 00567 to help transition the merger between named company and First Cash Pawn to properly continue satisfying customers.

United We Dream is the nation's largest immigrant youth led organization in the nation with a driving force of more than 400,000 members and an online reach of over 4,000,000 across the nation, that envisions a society based on human dignity that celebrates all of our communities. As a Community Organizer or Field Organizer, one of the campaigns was focused on preparing a state-wide team in Texas prepare to fight back against anti-immigrant legislation that would take away the benefit of attending institutions higher education at a state-rate and obtaining financial assistance to pay for college. Other tasks included helping manage state and local campaigns, base building and preparing political lobbying groups for action. A second campaign was the I'm a DREAM Voter campaign which was focused primarily in south Texas and Hidalgo County to engage voters in increasing voter turnout.

Minority Affairs Council is an organization that harnesses the talents, abilities, and determination of youth, particularly college students, to affect change in a proactive manner towards political and social issues among the minority community in the Rio Grande Valley. Specifically, MAC conducts comprehensive education on college access programs for students and families of mix-immigration status.