Gustavo Torres is the Executive Director of CASA, the largest Latino and immigrant rights organization in the mid-Atlantic region. Under his leadership since 1994, CASA has grown from a small social service organization with a handful of staff members to a nationally awarded, multiservice, advocacy, organizing and support agency with a staff of nearly 150 and a membership of over 100,000, which operates in multiple states including Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Torres has also served as a member of multiple transition teams for city Mayors, state Governors and County Executives and on numerous task forces and leadership groups addressing issues of diversity and immigrant rights.