Marcela Díaz is the Founding Executive Director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, a statewide immigrant-based organization that works to advance racial and worker justice in New Mexico. Through its community organizing, electoral engagement, impact litigation, and policy advocacy efforts, Somos has helped shape New Mexico’s immigrant and worker’s rights landscape for three decades. Under Marcela’s leadership, the organization has spearheaded several local and statewide laws and has won dozens of awards for its grassroots work.