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.
Catherine Tactaquin
Executive Director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee RightsCatherine Tactaquin is Executive Director and a co-founder of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR). Since 1986, NNIRR has worked to promote the rights for all immigrants, regardless of immigration status, through national advocacy campaigns, coalition-building, and support for immigrant community organizing and empowerment. In 1994, Catherine...
Get To know CatherineStephanie Teatro
Director of Climate Justice & Migration, The Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New AmericansStephanie is the Director of Climate Justice and Migration at the National Partnership for New Americans. In this role, Stephanie helps lead the Climate Justice Collaborative, an initiative to build the capacity of immigrant justice organizations to powerfully join the fight for climate justice.
Get To know StephanieAlice Tianyi Liu
Co-Director of Communications, West Street Recovery; Gulf South for Green New DealAlice Tianyi Liu is a Houston-based writer and organizer working in disaster recovery and climate justice. She is a queer, 24-year- old Chinese-American who is fueled by hope and rage that we must reshape our economy and political system to be oriented towards life and care instead of extraction and...
Get To know AliceIxchel Tonāntzin Xōchitlzihuatl
Ixchel is a co-founder of the socially engaged art collective, Las Imaginistas, and is the Cosmic Weaver for the immigrant rights network, Voces Unidas. Both organizations advance the earth’s desire to remember and recognize freedom of movement for all beings.
Get To know IxchelQiana Torregano
Spokesperson/Advocate, RESULTSQiana Marie Torregano is a New Orleans native, Master Teacher, and RESULTS Spokesperson. She is humbled to represent her eclectic city and great state as an educator and advocate. Her vision is "A quality lifestyle for every citizen. As lifelong learners we are charged to use our knowledge and voices...
Get To know QianaJohn-Michael Torres
Communications Coordinator, La Unión del Pueblo EnteroFrom Mission, Texas, John-Michael attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he got involved with the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the farmworker-led Campaign for Fair Food. After graduating, he returned home to South Texas and joined local organizing efforts for farmworker rights and against corporate-led globalization. He now works as...
Get To know John-MichaelAdrianna Torres-Garcia
Program Coordinator, Free Migration ProjectAdrianna Torres-Garcia, MSW has an extensive background in social and scientific research, as well as experience in policy and advocacy in nonprofit organizations.
Get To know AdriannaNatalicia Tracy
Executive Director, Brazilian Immigrant CenterNatalicia Tracy has been Executive Director of the Brazilian Immigrant Center (BIC), the New England Region’s largest Portuguese-speaking workers center, for two years. Before becoming Executive Director, she was Secretary of the BIC board from 2006-2010. Natalicia has long experience as an organizer and leader within many sectors of the Brazilian...
Get To know NataliciaDavid Trujillo
Advocacy Director, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial CountiesDavid Trujillo serves as Advocacy Director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. ACLU-SDIC is a prominent force for the protection and expansion of fundamental rights in California’s second-most populous county and southern borderlands. David guides the affiliate’s public policy and civic engagement agenda. David was born in...
Get To know DavidNaomi Tsu
Deputy Legal Director of the Immigrant Justice Project, Southern Poverty Law CenterNaomi Tsu oversees the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) legal and advocacy work on behalf of immigrants in the Deep South. She represents clients who have experienced wage theft, discrimination, human trafficking, and other abuses. She was counsel for immigrant workers in David v. Signal, one of the largest labor...
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