The Texas Freedom Network
Val Benavidez, President and Executive Director Val Benavidez is a longtime organizer who started by organizing fellow students at the University of Texas. Today, Benavidez leads the Texas Freedom Network, a nonpartisan grassroots organization of progressive religious and community leaders and young Texans. She is the proud daughter and granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, farmworkers, railroad builders and all-around rabble rousers. tfn.org
YWCA Greater Austin
Naya Diaz, Executive Director Naya Diaz is on a journey to impact marginalized communities of color and break intergenerational cycles of injustices. Her hope is to create a community that strives for justice and individual as well as communal liberation. Diaz believes revolution starts in the heart and leads into our policies and legislation. ywcaaustin.org
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