Mariana Magaña Gamero is a Policy Advocate at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA). She is a former Executive Fellow, through Sacramento State University and the office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Originally from Jalisco, Mexico and raised in the Pico Neighborhood of Santa Monica, Mariana is extremely passionate about immigrant advocacy efforts that are inclusive of all 11 million and dismantles the good/bad immigrant narrative. She attended Santa Monica Community College and transferred to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where she majored in Political Science.