Alma Maquitico
Alma Maquitico is the co-director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Maquitico's work has centered on developing initiatives to address rural development, climate change, and human rights. Over the past twenty years, she has provided technical assistance to various grassroots organizations addressing food, agriculture, and ecological sustainability, particularly with migrant and refugee communities on the US-Mexico borderlands. In addition, Maquitico has helped build grassroots networks to monitor and document human rights violations resulting from immigration enforcement in communities along the US-Mexico border.