• Director, Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program
• Faculty Latino Specialist, Division of Extension
• Affiliate Faculty, Labor Center at University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Member of Fox Valley Workforce Development Board
• Governor’s Early Childhood Advisory Council
• National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association Board

• Member of the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education
• Restorative Justice Circle expert
• Native of Brazil

• President, Board of Director, Centro Hispano of Dane County
• Freedom Inc. Board of Directors 2008-2017
• Native of Guatemala

• Community organizer at SOPHIA, focusing on mass incarceration, health care, transportation, housing and immigration issues
• Mexican immigrant
• U.S. Army veteran

• Board member and past VP of JONAH (Joining Our Neighbors Advancing Hope)
• Founded and co-chaired JONAH Immigration Task Force
• Founded Advancing Hope Fund, a zero-interest lending

• Past president and treasurer of JONAH (Joining Our Neighbors Advancing Hope)
• Co-chaired JONAH Immigration Task Force
• Board member of El Centro de Conexion

• Professor emerita, Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, UW-Madison
• Develops projects that benefit immigrants and refugees, such as the Learning English and Living Biculturally Project
• Member of the Formando Lazos Familiares Committee
• Co-founder of Formando Lazos Workshops serving the Dane County Latino Community

• Recipient of the Sally Sunde Family Advocate Award 2017
• Board Member Immigrant Support Network
• Board Member Conexiones Latinas
• Board Member Community Health Systems

• Co-founder of Latino Professionals Association of Northeast Wisconsin (LPA of N.E.W. or LPA)
• LPA Mission: Ensuring Latino’s influence & success in all professions through networking, professional development & advocacy in NEW
• LPA Motto: Building Pathways to Success

• Accompany migrant, seasonal, and year-round agricultural workers as they navigate the legal system, as well as support workers in locating community resources. Coordinate and participate in the extensive outreach to farmworkers across Wisconsin.
• Secretary, Wisconsin Farmworkers Coalition
• Member, Migrant Clinicians Network Institutional Review Board

• Previously served as Family Living Educator in Trempealeau County
• Has partnered with people and organizations to build family resilience through complex social issues

• Doctoral work in the Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, UW-Madison
• Research interests include language rights, civil rights, language justice issues, linguistic and cultural diversity of the upper Midwest

Joe Maldonado

Community Youth Development Program Manager

• Support and coach county based educators in delivering programming that engages youth in important issues in their community
• Provide a statewide strategy that aligns with the broader work of the Positive Youth Development Institute
• Lead statewide programming and initiatives around postsecondary pathways, civic engagement, restorative justice, and community health

• Recipient of UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award 2018
• Chairperson for Extension Latino Employees Resources Group (LERG)
• Native of Colombia

• Coordinate and lead post-secondary access for Latino youth and families through Juntos 4-H program
• Parenting Program Educator and Fatherhood program lead
• Chair of Alliance for Youth and Jail to Community Reentry Coalition

• Understanding the dynamics and demographics of diversity in Wisconsin
• Immigration and population change in rural Wisconsin

• Affiliate with Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies
• Researches the intersection between urban development, governance, and the creation and destruction of cultural spaces in working-class communities of color