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.
Greisa Martinez Rosas Martinez Rosas
Executive Director, United We DreamGreisa Martinez Rosas is Executive Director at United We Dream. United We Dream (UWD) is a national nonpartisan, membership-based organization of over 100,000 immigrant youth and allies. Led by its 55 affiliate organizations in 26 states, UWD advocates for the dignity and fair treatment of undocumented immigrant youth and their...
Get To know Greisa Martinez RosasJanos Marton
Director of Policy and Campaigns, JustLeadershipUSAJanos Marton is the Director of Policy and Campaigns at JustLeadershipUSA. A born and raised New Yorker, Janos attended Dartmouth College and worked on political campaigns and disaster relief before returning home to attend Fordham Law School. As an attorney, Janos worked at a civil rights firm as special counsel...
Get To know JanosC. Nicole Mason
Director of Research and Policy Initiatives, National Council for Research on WomenC. Nicole Mason has worked in advocacy and public education at the local, state and national levels with a special focus on women and underserved communities for the last 13 years. In her research and writing, she continues to investigate the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other markers...
Get To know C. NicoleTania Mattos
Policy & Northeast Monitoring Manager, Freedom for ImmigrantsTania Mattos is an Aymara descendent, Bolivian born, Queens-based organizer, activist, and strategist. She focuses on assisting community-based visitation and human rights monitoring programs in detention centers and supports policy and advocacy efforts at the federal and state level throughout the northeast region.
Get To know TaniaTiffany McFadden
Volunteer, Alliance of Families for JusticeTiffany's experience as a foster youth has made her resilient, aware, humble, empathetic, as well as a fierce advocate for children and families who have experienced situations similar to hers. After many years, she ultimately learned that what happened to her goes beyond having a mother with a criminal record...
Get To know TiffanyMaria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Executive Director, Drug Policy AllianceAs the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, Maria is at the helm of the leading organization in the US fighting to end the war on drugs in the United States and beyond. Previously, Maria held several positions at Human Rights Watch, including as co-director of its US Program,...
Get To know MariaPaola Mendoza
Paola Mendoza is a film director, activist, author and artist working at the leading-edge of human rights.
Get To know PaolaArmando Minjares Monarrez
Community Leader, Sunflower Community ActionArmando immigrated to the United States in the summer of 2001 at age 15 to the little town of Ulysses, Kansas, with his brothers and single mother. They came with tourist visas and overstayed them. By the time he graduated high school he realized he couldn’t afford to go to...
Get To know ArmandoJuanita Monsalve
Senior Marketing and Creative Director, United We DreamJuanita A. Monsalve is a cultural, creative, and digital strategist working for the freedom of all communities of color.
Get To know JuanitaNasir Anthony Montalvo
Nasir Anthony Montalvo (b.1999) is an award-winning transdisciplinary journalist and memory worker based in Kansas City, MO.
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