Cristina Jiménez

Cristina Jiménez co-founded United We Dream in 2008. She has organized immigrant youth and workers around the DREAM Act and pro-immigrant legislation at local and national levels since 2004. She co-founded the New York State Youth Leadership Council, was an immigration policy analyst for the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, and was an immigrant rights organizer at the Latin American Integration Center (now Make the Road New York). Jiménez came to the United States from Quito, Ecuador when she was 13.