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!