Marisa Franco is a Latino rights advocate and community organizer. Her activities have centered around Arizona, where she was born, as well as New York and California. [1]
Franco is the co-founder and director of Mijente, [2] [3] [4] an online organizing tool for Latinx [5] and Chicanx [5] activists. [6] [7] Franco led the #Not1MoreDeportation [8] campaign which was recognized in 2014 by the National Organizing Institute as Campaign of the Year. [9] Franco is the Campaign Director at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) [10] [11] [12] where she actively fought against SB1070 which allowed police to ask anyone in Arizona for their immigration paperwork at routine traffic stops. [13]
She was selected as one of The Advocate's 40 under 40 in 2016. [14] She was an organizer with the People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) in San Francisco, California [15] [16] and worked on the campaign to enact the New York Domestic Worker's Bill of Rights. [1]
Mijente is a family of organizations including: [17]
Mijente has run multiple campaigns including NoTechForICE
Franco co-authored the books Towards Land, Work and Power [18] and How We Make Change is Changing. [19]