Marisa Franco (@marisa_franco) is a Phoenix-based organizer, writer and strategist. She is the Director and Co-founder of Mijente, a digital and grassroots organizing hub for Latina/o and Chicana/o people. In her over 10 years of work Marisa has helped lead key grassroots organizing campaigns rooted in low-income and communities of color, characterized by their innovation and creativity. Most recently she led the #Not1More Deportation campaign. While on staff at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, she helped spearhead the fight against Arizona’s SB1070. In 2012, she organized the ‘No Papers No Fear’ bus tour throughout the South en route to the Democratic National Convention. Prior to that, Franco helped form the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and was a Lead Organizer at the Right to the City Alliance in New York. For five years, Marisa organized at People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) in San Francisco, where she co-authored the book Towards Land, Work and Power. Franco was recently recognized by The Advocate’s 40 under 40 of 2016. She is a trusted collaborator with grassroots leaders across the country spanning across the immigrant rights, civil rights, women’s, LGBTQ and labor movements. In what remains of her spare time, Marisa enjoys cooking, DIY projects, a good game of pool, and old fashioned debate.