Marisa Franco

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

Mijente is a family of organizations including:^[17]

• Mijente (501c4) - "Mijente". Internal Revenue Service filings. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
• Mijente Support Committee (501c3) - "Mijente Support Committee". Internal Revenue Service filings. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
• Mijente PAC (political action committee) - Mijente PAC at OpenSecrets

Mijente has run multiple campaigns including NoTechForICE

Publications

Franco co-authored the books Towards Land, Work and Power^[18] and How We Make Change is Changing.^[19]

• "The Deportation Machine Obama Built for President Trump"^[20]
• "The Department of Homeland Security: the largest police force nobody monitors"^[21]
• "Opinion: Obama, Immigration And The Lincoln Playbook"^[22]
• "Latino communities must see Ferguson’s fight as their own"^[23]