Salas, Angelica

Angelica Salas

Angelica Salas is Executive Director at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA). She joined CHIRLA in 1995 and became CHIRLA’s Executive Director in 1999.  In her role, she has transformed CHIRLA into a mass membership immigrant-led organization that empowers immigrants and their families to win local, state, and national policies that advance their human, civil, and labor rights.  Angelica is a recognized grassroots leader that plays a national leadership role in all major immigration reform campaigns. Angelica's work led to the House of Representatives passage of the Dream and Promise Act of 2019, a bill to give people with DACA and TPS a path to citizenship. She graduated from Occidental College with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Sociology in 1993.  In 2007, Occidental College awarded her an Honorary Doctorate.