As the Founding Executive Director of the Abundant Futures Fund, I spearhead initiatives aimed at increasing support for immigration and advancing the immigrant justice movement. Before taking on my current role, I spent more than a decade as a Senior Program Officer at the Ford Foundation in the Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice Program, where I oversaw up to $30 million annually in grants focused on immigration. I was born in Panama and raised near the border in San Diego, California. I currently live in the New York City area— but I still pay my California Bar dues in hopes that I may one day return!