Our Fellows
The Opportunity Agenda’s Communications Institute Fellows are media-ready experts on some of the country’s most urgent challenges, coming largely from communities most affected by those challenges. For journalists seeking voices with a grassroots perspective that links economic opportunity, criminal justice, immigrant opportunity, and racial justice issues to the lived experiences of Americans, Communications Fellows are ideal spokespeople.
Marisa Limón Garza
Deputy Director, Hope Border InstituteMarisa Limón Garza is an El Paso native with over 15 years of experience engaging multicultural audiences through the lens of advocacy, education, strategic communications, advertising campaigns, and community involvement. She currently serves as deputy director of the Hope Border Institute, a community-based organization in the El Paso region working for...
Get To know Marisa
Carl Lipscombe
Deputy Director, Black Alliance for Just ImmigrationCarl Lipscombe is the Deputy Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI). For nearly 15 years, Carl has organized poor Black and immigrant communities; litigated on behalf of indigent criminal defendants and undocumented immigrants; and worked with grassroots organizations, worker centers, and unions to affect policy change on...
Get To know Carl
Barbara Lopez
Director, Make the Road CTOriginally from California, Barbara Lopez is a first-generation American. In her role, Barbara will take Make the Road CT to the next level of its work as a statewide multi-issue and multi-generational organization.
Get To know Barbara
Brenda Lozano
Executive Director, Dream Action OklahomaBrenda Lozano is passionate about community organizing, a skill that she first learned at home.
Get To know Brenda
Sarah Ludwig
Founder, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)Sarah Ludwig founded NEDAP in 1995 and has worked with hundreds of grassroots groups to organize and advocate for community equity and financial justice. In 2000, she co-founded the coalition, New Yorkers for Responsible Lending, which has secured major policy reforms in the financial justice and foreclosure prevention arenas. Ludwig...
Get To know Sarah
Jorge Luis Vasquez
Associate Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEFJorge Luis Vasquez, Jr. is an Associate Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF and litigates on a broad range of civil rights matters throughout the United States. Jorge is a second generation Nuyorican and a proud product of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University...
Get To know Jorge
Adam Luna
Political Director, America’s VoiceAs the Political Director at America’s Voice, Adam coordinates their strategy to build a new majority for comprehensive immigration reform. Before joining America’s Voice, Adam worked with community organizations and national leaders on immigration reform at the Center for Community Change. Adam led the fight against Social Security privatization and...
Get To know Adam
Lynne Lyman
California State Director, Drug Policy AllianceLynne Lyman is the California state director for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), where she leads the criminal justice reform work. A native of Los Angeles with an M.P.A. from Harvard, Lynne joined DPA in 2012 after working with government and civil rights organizations in California and Massachusetts on policy,...
Get To know Lynne
Rebecca Marimutu
Rebecca Marimutu, a New York City-based photographer and educator, explores themes of identity, heritage, and cultural preservation in her work.
Get To know Rebecca
Kristen Marston
Culture and Entertainment Advocacy Director, Color of ChangeKristen Marston has dedicated her career to creating positive and long-lasting change within the entertainment industry, first by working to encourage equal employment opportunities for diverse directors at the Directors Guild of America and, most recently, by consulting with executives, writers, producers, and influencers to shift cultural narratives surrounding immigrants...
Get To know Kristen
