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Latinx Activist | Writer | Community Organizer

Irene Franco Rubio Speaking Fee: $10,000 and Below

Latinx Activist | Writer | Community Organizer

Speaker Profile Thumbnail for Irene Franco Rubio
Speaking Fee:
$10,000 and Below

Travels From:
Available Upon Request

Primary Topic Category:
Latinx / Hispanic Heritage

Secondary Topic Category:
Journalists / News Media / Global Outlook / Current Events

 

Irene Franco Rubio Speaker Profile: At A Glance

Irene Franco Rubio is an activist, writer, and community organizer born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. A Latina of Guatemalan and Mexican descent, she remains rooted in community and devoted to building an intersectional movement for justice as a scholar, public thought leader and catalyst for social change. Rubio works with the LA Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights), which strives to maintain and strengthen Los Angeles’ diversity, equity, and accountability through commission support, outreach, and empowerment while working towards a racially equitable environment enhances opportunities for diverse communities.

Irene Franco Rubio has multifaceted experience in movements for change as an intersectional movement builder, from local multicultural grassroots organizing in her hometown of Phoenix for the Arizona Coalition for Change & Our Voice Our Vote to working for the first Indigenous woman in the U.S. House of Representatives for former U.S. Congresswoman Deb Haaland, organizing nationally for Michelle Obama’s nonprofit When We All Vote, is an ambassador of the United State of Women USOW, among other community advocacy engagements. As a public thought leader, Irene has received prestigious fellowships including 2022 Open Society Foundations Soros Justice Fellowship, is a Public Voices Fellow of the Op-Ed Project at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Humanity in Action Fellow, John Robert Lewis Fellow at the Faith & Politics Institute, Othering & Belonging Institute Fellow at UC Berkeley, Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Socrates Scholar, Davis Putter Student Activist Scholar, 2022 Vital Voices Global Visionary Fellow, Imagining America Fellow, Harvard Public Policy Leadership Scholar, UCLA Law Fellow, and a UChicago Harris School of Public Policy Summer Scholar, in addition to other public engagement. As a media professional engaged at the intersection of activism and media, she has been recognized as a Facebook Journalism Project Scholar, Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Equal Voice News Scholar, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Scholar, ProPublica Diversity Scholar, and Pilot Media Technology & Innovation Scholar. She has written and published op-eds in Teen Vogue, Youth to the People, Live Kindly, Healthline, Latino Rebels, Prism, Mitu, among others. Now, Irene Franco Rubio is the Impact Deputy at Revolve Impact, an award-winning movement-driven social change agency. As a scholar-activist and public thought leader, Irene Franco Rubio continues to advocate for historically oppressed communities at the intersection of activism, media, and academia as a catalyst for change, in a relentless pursuit of justice.
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