Arizona Center for Empowerment
Arizona Center for Empowerment is a member lead social justice organization that organizes undocumented working youth and adults, students and LGBTQ community to strategically take ownership and responsibility to advance in economic, racial and immigrant justice. By building power through leadership development, Citizenship, civic engagement, wage equality, protection of public education, immigrant rights advocacy and health care, and developing learning spaces. Through this we are setting a more inclusive and just standard of equality in the state of Arizona. [1]
Susan Sandler Fund
An initial round of awards announced by the Susan Sandler Fund includes grants to the Asian American & Pacific Islander Civic Engagement Fund, Advance Native Political Leadership, the Arizona Center for Empowerment, State Power Caucus, the New Georgia Project, the New Florida Majority Education Fund, the New Virginia Majority Education Fund, PICO California, and the Texas Organizing Project.
"[T]he investments are not so much targeted to battleground states but looking at the landscape of racism and demographic change," Chang told the New York Times. "This fund really underscores what's left out of many philanthropic discussions....This concept of being accountable to real people with real problems, that is what catalyzes change, it's what generates urgency and creativity. And so that's why we're focused on increasing the power and influence of those who bear the brunt of racism."[2]
Staff
Staff, as of July 2018;[3]
- Communications Director - Abril Gallardo.
- Community Schools Organizer - Pedro Paredes
- Civic Engagement Organizer - Gina Mendez
- Political Education Coordinator - Nicole Hale
- Data Manager - Elvin Alexis Ezrre
- Community Schools Project Director - Stephanie Maldonado
- Immigration Services Coordinator - Aldo Gonzalez
- Co-Executive Director - Alejandra Gomez
- Co-Executive Director - Tomas E. Robles, Jr.