Yepez, Mari

Mari Yepez

Mari Yepez was born in Michoacan, Mexicoand emigrated to Arizona at the age of 5 with her family. She graduated from Arizona State University in 2013. Mari began as an organizer as part of the Adios Arpaio campaign in 2012 - a campaign to register Latinos and young people in Maricopa County to unseatthen County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Mari then became a leader in UNITE HERE Local 11 and became staff with the union. Since then Mari has dedicated her life to engaging POC to vote in AZ. Most recently In 2020, Mari served as the field director for the coordinated field campaign across Arizona which ultimately went for Biden and elected Mark Kelly to the US Senate. Following that Mari went to lead a large team in Georgia’s special Senate election where ultimately Rev. Warnock and Jon Ossoff won their races.