Carlos Aleman
Carlos Aleman (he/him) CEO of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama (HICA) immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was young due to the civil war in their home country of Nicaragua in 1982. He first lived in San Francisco and grew up there before moving to Michigan to earn his PhD from Michigan State University. A stop in Atlanta was then followed by his move to join the faculty staff at Samford University in Alabama, where he taught from 2013 to 2018. Aleman is the first Latino elected to public office in the state of Alabama where he serves as a Ward 2 council member in the city of Homewood. His commitment to the Latino population of Alabama is carried out everyday in his work with HICA, a community development and advocacy organization that champions economic equality, civic engagement, and social justice for Latino and immigrant families in Alabama.