Sulma Arias
Sulma Arias is the Director of Immigration and Power Building for Community Change and Community Change Action. Prior to joining CC, Sulma was the Executive Director for Sunflower Community Action in Kansas, a multi-racial grassroots organization that worked on issues of racial and economic inequality and immigrant justice. Under her leadership, a coalition of local and national organizations attempted to defeat Kris Kobach as he ran for Secretary of State in Kansas. In 2005 Sulma left her role at Sunflower to lead the immigration and worker justice program for National People’s Action (now People’s Action). Where she coordinated training and capacity building for 12 grassroots organizations in 10 states. Sulma’s leadership and compassion for immigrant communities is rooted in the story of her own migration from El Salvador at 12 years old with her niece and nephew (ages 3 and 5).