Francisca is a Latina mother, organizer, and communicator from Colombia. She is passionate about educating, working, and fighting alongside immigrant and low income families in NYC and marginal and oppressed communities in Colombia. She arrived in NYC in 2008 and joined Make the Road as an Educational Justice Organizer in Queens. Since 2009, Francisca has worked as a Membership Organizer at MRNY. She designed and implemented Fuerza Cooperativa, a dues collection, financial literacy, and services program. Francisca managed, evaluated, and coordinated the program with MRNY’s institutional partner, the Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union. She also designed and ran two grassroots funding initiatives to support MRNY’s work: the Walk for Justice in 2010 and the Walk for Immigrant NY in 2011. Before MRNY, Francisca held a variety of positions, including Human Rights Consultant for the Bogotá D.C. Department of Government, Project Evaluation Chair and Pedagogy Team Member for the European Union, Program Developer/Strategic Planning Consultant for Foro Joven Corporation & Save the Children, and Community Developer for Bogotá D.C. Department of Welfare for the project, “Social Intervention Strategy for Santa Ines, El Cartucho Zone”. Francisca holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Los Andes University in Bogotá .