Alma (she/her) joined LAANE in 2016 as a research and policy analyst with the Our People Our Ports campaign. She moved on to become the senior research and policy analyst with the Living Wage campaign before becoming director of the Education campaign in 2023.
Alma has over a decade of experience in the immigrant rights and labor movements which began with student organizing and activism. Alma has BAs in Political Science and Chicano Studies from UC Riverside and an MA in Education from CSU Long Beach.