Praeli, Lorella

Lorella Praeli

Lorella Praeli is the President of Community Change Action and Vice President of Community Change. Most recently, she was the ACLU’s Deputy National Political Director, where she fought to defend and expand the rights of immigrants and refugees. Prior, Lorella mobilized the Latinx vote as Hillary Clinton’s National Latino Vote Director. Her life was transformed after coming out as “undocumented and unafraid” and organizing undocumented students in Connecticut; she went on to serve as United We Dream’s Director of Advocacy and Policy, where she led the campaign to implement DACA and was part of the team that persuaded the Obama administration to protect four million undocumented Americans through DAPA.