Rockwood Leadership Institute is proud to announce the fourth cohort of the Fellowship for a New California.

This fellowship brings together a group of 24 leaders to support their leadership development and strengthen their collaboration skills within the immigrant rights movement and with other social justice movements.

The 2016 Fellowship for a New California fellows are:

• Martha Arévalo, Executive Director, Central American Resource Center Los Angeles
• Hussam Ayloush, MBA, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greater Los Angeles Area
• Shiu-Ming Cheer, Immigration Attorney, National Immigration Law Center
• Ronald Coleman, JD, Government Affairs Manager, California Immigrant Policy Center
• Estela De Los Rios, Executive Director, CSA San Diego County
• Ellen Dumesnil, Executive Director, International Institute of the Bay Area
• Basim Elkarra, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley Office
• Luz Gallegos, Community Programs Director, TODEC Legal Center
• Katharine Gin, Cofounder & Executive Director, Educators for Fair Consideration
• Jorge Gutierrez, National Coordinator, Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement
• Maricela Gutiérrez, Executive Director, Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network
• Rufaro Gwarada, Development and Communications Manager, Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
• Nao Kabashima, Executive Director, Karen Organization of San Diego
• Steven Kim, Director, Project Kinship
• Aarti Kohli, Deputy Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Asian Law Caucus
• Claudia Leiva, Executive Director, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice Ventura County
• Erica Lomeli, Civic Participation & Policy Director, UFW Foundation
• Judy London, Directing Attorney, Immigrants’ Rights Project, Public Counsel
• Abraham Medina, Project Director, Santa Ana Boys and Men of Color
• Natasha Minsker, Center Director, ACLU of California Center for Advocacy & Policy
• Ola Osaze, Development Senior Manager, Transgender Law Center
• Jennie Pasquarella, Director of Immigrants’ Rights, ACLU of California
• Leoncio Vasquez Santos, Executive Director, Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño
• Aquilina Soriano Versoza, Executive Director, Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California

Please join us in congratulating our fellows!