Franklin Acevedo has been in active in California real estate and planning for 20 years now. He is the C.E.O. and President of Rampart Properties, Inc., a Los Angeles based full service real estate firm, where he manages an investment portfolio valued at $117 million for high-net worth families, trusts, and financial institutions.

Mr. Acevedo holds a license from the State of California Department of Real Estate and has been involved in over $42 million in multi-family transactions in Los Angeles County alone. He is an Accredited Residential Manager (A.R.M.) with the Institute of Real Estate Management, an Assisted Housing Manager (A.H.M.) with the National Leased Housing Association and manages over 1100 residential units throughout Los Angeles County. Mr. Acevedo is member of the California Association of Realtors. Through Rampart Properties, Inc. Mr. Acevedo has rehabilitated and repositioned over 1400 units throughout Southern California for third-party partnerships. Mr. Acevedo takes pride in being one of the few developers/managers of low-income housing cooperatives in Southern California and has reorganized and developed 340 units of housing cooperatives. He frequently engages redeveloping communities on the importance of community building through land/property acquisition strategies and has assisted stakeholders in revitalizing communities through multi-family investment. Mr. Acevedo was instrumental in the clean-up of Macarthur Park through collaboration with corporate partners and local police and business organizations. As a result, in 2005, the community has had the most drastic decrease in crime in the entire United States thereby facilitating reinvestment in the community and a major increase in real estate valuation and a return of families to the park. He has taught seminars throughout the City of Los Angeles and primarily focused on communities facing forced change, usually ahead of the curve: Silverlake (1997), Echo Park (1999), Elysian Valley (2000), Downtown Los Angeles (2000), Mid-Wilshire (2001), University Park (2002), Pico-Union (2003) and Westlake (2003) and Boyle Heights (2010). In addition, Mr. Acevedo has taught seminars on the creation and financing of housing and business cooperatives as a tool for community and equity building to several local non-profits. Mr. Acevedo has lectured at the University of Southern California, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, Hebrew College, and the University of California at Los Angeles' School of Urban Planning. Currently, Mr. Acevedo is serving President of the Central Area Planning Commissioner on the City of Los Angeles Central Area which oversees the approval of developments in Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Wilshire, and the Westlake communities. He is active on multiple advisory and community boards including the University of Southern California, the Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, and the Los Angeles Rotary Club. Today, Rampart Properties, Inc. is strategically expanding into rent-growth communities through the strategic ownership/management of multi-family, commercial, and retail real estate along transportation corridors currently being developed in high density communities.

Evan Bacalao is the Senior Director of Civic Engagement at the NALEO Educational Fund; the leading nonprofit organization that facilitates full Latino participation in the American political process. Evan leads the organization's community-focused initiatives, which include direct naturalization assistance; information dissemination on citizenship and voting; GOTV; technical training and assistance; research; and mass media outreach.

The program operates out of offices in Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Orlando, and in collaboration with local non-profit partners across the country. The program runs the year-round civic engagement hotline 888-839-8682 (VE-Y-VOTA) and its companion websites at yaeshora.info.

Evan joined NALEO in 2005 as Research Associate, where he worked on a range of advocacy issues and research projects. Prior to joining NALEO, Evan was a fundraiser for a statewide political committee.

Born in the UK to British and Venezuelan parents, Evan naturalized as a U.S. citizen ikn the 2007 ya es hora ¡Ciudadanía! campaign.

Ofelia C Cañez was born and raised in the small mining town of Superior Arizona in the late 1950's. Her parents are Rodolfo Acedo and Matilde Alvarez Canez , both immigrants in which her father was a bracero worker from Imuris, Sonora Mexico. Her father was sponsored to work with the Magma Copper Mine by storeowner and later State Representative James Karam and uncle Archimedes Fraijo, former Navy veteran and Arizona President of the Conservation Corps of America. She is one of 10 children who all reside in Arizona. She married Manuel G Marin from Ajo, Arizona, former District 6 Arizona State Representative. They have four children, Francisco Xavier, Manuel Rodolfo, Ramon Ignacio and Alma Marin, two who are Stanford and ASU Alumni. Ofelia's education began in Superior where she attended elementary and middle schools completing up to her junior year in high school. Her parents then moved to Mesa AZ in 1969 where she graduated from Mesa High School and continued to Mesa College, graduated and received a Ford Foundation Scholarship that helped her complete a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education at Arizona State Univeristy.

Ofelia completed her M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from NAU, and the U of A- Guadalajara International Program with post graduate work. Currently, she is an Emeritus Faculty (retired) of Phoenix College, served as a residential faculty and managed the Phoenix College Teacher Education Program. She has 25+ years of experience in PreK-12 and post secondary educational institutions whose responsibilities included: Teaching, program development and management; student services work that incorporated government; business and industry employment at the local, state, and federal levels working close with the U.S Dept of Labor as a placement officer for the USDA, CIA, and NSA branches. Her vast experience in the Student and Academic Affairs arenas leaded her to manage various grants including a 3-year –2 million dollar Hispanic Serving Institution Title V Grant that was earmarked for renewal. She also served as the founding member of the Arizona Women's Conference Scholarship Committee; President of the ASU Los Diablo's Association; and member of the ASU Alumni Association for two years; and current member of AGUILA Youth Leadership Institute Board. Her former in the medical field included serving on the Medical Radiology Technology Board of Arizona and the Medical Board of Directors for the Mountain Park Health Center in South Phoenix. She has worked with exceptional learners ranging from youngsters to elders at different levels of development and in both formal and informal settings who were afflicted with various diseases and conditions such as: traumatic brain injury, diabetes, cancer, dyslexic, Alzheimer's and paraplegics.

The family of Ofelia and Raul H. Castro share many similarities--both were very active in education and civic participation. Both families originated from Sonora Mexico and had relatives working in the Cananea mines. Ofelia's father's uncle is Maclovio Barraza, who was a copper mining and smelters union steward and her mother is a distant relative of the former Mexican President Luis Alvarez Echeverria.

Her favorite pastime is cooking Mexican cuisine especially "los platillos de Frida Kahlo" and Nopales Rellenados y Café de la Olla de la Peña de Bernal en Guanajuato. She was featured in the Arizona Republic 2 for 1 Deals as a cuisine cooking instructor for Ofelia's Traditions … she also is a play actor and starred as an Aztec priestess in the recent Teatro Bravo "La Llorona" .

Gregory is currently the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO and APALA Education Fund. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans and as Secretary for the Labor Coalition for Community Action. Prior, Gregory was President of the United States Student Association (USSA), where he increased the budget of the organization, established strong community partnerships & played an integral role in the passage of the Student Aid & Fiscal Responsibility Act and Healthcare & Education Reconciliation Act.

Furthermore, he comes with a wealth of experience having served or currently serving on the boards of the PAC+, National Jobs with Justice, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, the Generational Alliance & the National Youth Advocacy Coalition. In 2009, he started Can't Stop Won't Stop Consulting, a firm dedicated to training, peer coaching & organizational development.

Gregory was awarded the Next Generation Award from Metro Weekly, which recognizes the accomplishments of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) activists, artists & leaders under the age of 30. The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum named him Ally of the Year in 2011 and Pride at Work recognized him with a Celebrating Solidarity Award for his efforts to organize at the intersections of many communities and issues.

He is a graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Institute, the Management Center's Managing to Change the World, the Midwest Academy's Organizing for Social Change, Training for Change's Training of Trainers & Wellstone Action's Political Training Program. You can find him dancing with SOULcial Justice, a dance team he formed of DC's movers & shakers, or on twitter at @gregorycendana.

Jennifer S. Korn is Executive Director of the Hispanic Leadership Network. She recently served as a political strategist, specializing in winning political plans for candidate and issue campaigns. She previously served in the George W. Bush Administration as Director of Hispanic and Women's Affairs in the White House Office of Public Liaison, as well as Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Before her service at the White House, Ms. Korn held dual positions as National Hispanic Director and Southwest Coalitions Director on President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign. As the National Hispanic Director, Ms. Korn designed and supervised the plan which was instrumental in President Bush receiving 44% of the Hispanic vote. She organized the successful nationwide Viva Bush campaign and traveled around the country addressing voters on the President's record in support of the Hispanic community.

Prior to moving to Washington, D.C, Ms. Korn spent 10 years working for, and managing local, state and federal campaigns, and representing state legislators in California. Ms. Korn was born in East Los Angeles and is the first in her family to attend college. She is a military spouse.

Ever since she accepted the Girl of the Year Award in eighth grade, Tiffany Dufu knew that she wanted to make a profound impact. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, the daughter of a homemaker and a minister, Dufu was an early feminist who challenged the perceptions of adults around her who often insisted, "little girls can't lead." She knew that she needed not only to affect change, but also wanted to be public about it—so that other girls could be leaders, too.

Now as President of the White House Project, Ms. Dufu is creating new programs to expand the organization with a focus to appeal to a broader audience while empowering women, not just in the political realm, but in society as a whole. She continues to be an active and visible member of the women's leadership community, and was honored by Mattel in 2011 by being named one of their 10 Women to Watch. Under her leadership the future of the White House Project looks nothing short of success.

Delia Garcia serves as the NEA National Education Association Minority Community Outreach Senior Liaison for the Latino American Community at the national office in Washington DC.

Delia joined the NEA-MCO team from the Kansas House of Representatives, where she became the first Latina woman to be elected to the Kansas Legislature in 2004, at age 27, as the youngest female elected to the Kansas Legislature. She served six years with a passion for and track record of championing advances in labor, higher education, small business, women issues, health access, and diversity issues. She was a strategic legislator in fighting off anti-immigrant legislation while encouraging a healthy, bi-partisan dialogue on these issues. Delia also served as assistant manager of her family's Mexican restaurant in Kansas, which is Kansas' Oldest Family Owned Mexican Restaurant since 1963; while being a professor at the community college in her area. Delia was asked by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to serve on their 2010 Senate Democratic Hispanic Task Force, for her leadership as the National Vice President of the Board of Legislative Hispanic Caucus Chairs, lifetime membership of NALEO, and national leadership presenter on issues regarding women, youth, and Latinos in government. She has been nationally recognized in various national publications, including Newsweek, Latina Style, etc.

In 2004, in the midst of her first campaign for the Kansas Legislature, Delia completed her Masters Degree in Political Science from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. In 2007, Delia graduated from the Harvard University Executive Leadership Program. Ms. Garcia has received numerous awards, including the recipient of the MALDEF National Public Service Award and the National Latina Trailblazer in Government by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce & Latina Chamber of Commerce. She is the recipient of USHLI's Outstanding Youth of America in 2000 and past Dr. Andrade Scholarship Recipient and Intern of 1999.

Christina Hollenback is the Executive Director of Generational Alliance, an alliance of organizations that support the empowerment of low-income youth, youth of color, and LGBT youth. She comes out of years of Issue-based and Electoral campaign organizing with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Action Fund, the DNC, WalMart Watch, and Americans United to Protect Social Security.

Born and raised on the northside of Syracuse, NY, Christina left to become a movie star via the University of Michigan where she took a slightly different turn by organizing students there during the 2000 elections and founding Students Supporting Affirmative Action (SSAA) in 2001, which would later act as the student voice going all the way to the Supreme Court to defend Affirmative Action. Christina came to DC to co-direct the United States Student Association Foundation's Electoral Action Project in 2004 and then became the National Field Director for the League of Young Voters in 2006 to work primarily with non- college students to build power around the issues that matter most to them.

Dolores Huerta is the President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and Co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW). Her lifelong journey has been working as a Community Organizer and Social Activist for over 50 years.

Huerta has played a major role in the American civil rights movement. A founding board member of the Feminist Majority Foundation, she also serves on the board of Ms. Magazine. Numerous awards received among the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Clinton '98, Ms. Magazine's one of the three most important women of '97, Ladies Home Journal's 100 most important woman of the 20th Century, Puffin foundation award for Creative Citizenship Labor Leader Award 1984, Kern County's woman of the year by California State legislature, the Ohtli award from the Mexican Government, and Smithsonian Institution - James Smithson Award. She is a former UC Regent and has earned nine honorary doctorates from Universities throughout the United States.

As one of the most famous and celebrated Latinas in the US, Huerta has been an advocate for women's rights, and reproductive freedom. She continues working to develop community leaders, for working poor, immigrants, women and youth, with the Dolores Huerta Foundation. She speaks at universities or organizational forums on issues of social justice and public policy.

Russell Krumnow is the Coalition and Grassroots Manager for Opportunity Nation, a campaign of the non-profit organization Be the Change, aimed at expanding economic opportunity, social mobility, and access to the American Dream. Opportunity Nation includes a broad coalition of over 200 businesses, non-profits, educational institutions, and faith-based organizations to help create a shared, bipartisan plan to create better skills, better jobs, and better communities. Believing the zip code you're born into shouldn't determine your destiny, Opportunity Nation has launched a national conversation about opportunity in America and is promoting a set of public and private sector ideas to increase it.

Prior to joining Be the Change, Inc. Russell designed professional and leadership development programs with a non-profit consulting firm for clients including members of the Obama Administration, spent time organizing on a variety of political campaigns, and wrote curriculum for a national voter education effort in 2008. Previously with the non-profit Partnership for Public Service, he built a national outreach campaign aimed at inspiring college students to seek out public service careers. Before that, he planned and implemented student civic education programs with the National Young Leaders Conference. He is a graduate of Baylor University and earned a Master of Arts in political science at the University of Mississippi. Russell lives in Washington, D.C.

Clarissa Martínez-De-Castro, Director of Immigration and Civic Engagement at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), oversees the organization's work on immigration and efforts to expand Latino electoral participation and advocacy in public policy debates. She previously managed NCLR's state-based policy advocacy efforts in California and Texas, and launched the organizations civic engagement service-provider program.

She has been a frequent commentator on the Latino electorate and immigration issues on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Univision, and Telemundo, among others, and has appeared in The Washington Post, New York Times, and other major news outlets.

In 2007, Ms. Martinez-De-Castro served as manager of the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, a broad, multi-sector network of national, state, and local organizations committed to advancing policy solutions on immigration. Prior to NCLR, she served as Public Policy Coordinator for the Southwest Voter Research Institute, Assistant Director of the California-Mexico Project at the University of Southern California, Organizer for the Ladies' Garment Workers Union, and Union Representative for the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) Local 11. A Salzburg Seminar Fellow, she received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College and her master's degree from Harvard University. A naturalized U.S. citizen, she was born and raised in Mexico.

Dr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Pastor currently directs the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at USC and co- directs USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. He holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has received fellowships from the Danforth, Guggenheim, and Kellogg foundations and grants from the Irvine Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the W.T. Grant Foundation, The California Endowment, the California Air Resources Board, and many others. Pastor's research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities. His most recent book, Just Growth: Inclusion and Prosperity in America's Metropolitan Regions, co-authored with Chris Benner (Routledge 2012), argues that growth and equity can and should be linked, offering a new path for a U.S. economy seeking to recover from economic crisis and distributional distress. A recent volume is Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future (W.W. Norton 2010; co-authored with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh), which documents the gap between progress in racial attitudes and racial realities and offers a new set of strategies for both talking about race and achieving racial equity.

Emanuel Pleitez is currently the Chief Strategy Officer for Spokeo, Inc. In his volunteer capacity, he serves as the host of the Inspira web series, senior advisor and co-founder of The I-4 Group, and chair of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and Salvadoran American Leadership and Education Fund. Previously, Emanuel was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company after serving as the Special Assistant to Chairman Paul Volcker in the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Designated Federal Officer of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB). His work on the PERAB included delivering recommendations to the President on workforce development, tax reform, financial regulatory reform, infrastructure financing, and residential retrofitting.

Prior to joining the Administration, he was the Director of Investor Relations at EDM Capital Partners and a candidate in California's 32nd U.S. Congressional District 2009 Special Election. During the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition, Emanuel served as a member of the U.S. Treasury Department Agency Review Team. Before the Transition Team, he was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Equities Product Group of the Securities Division. While at Goldman Sachs, he also worked in the Public Sector Infrastructure Group of the Investment Banking Division and Private Wealth Management Group of the Investment Management Division.

Emanuel's political experience includes being a special assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa during his L.A. City Council tenure and Mayoral candidacy. During the John Kerry-John Edwards Presidential campaign in 2004, he served as a field organizer in Missouri and Florida. Emanuel has also worked for U.S. Senators Tom Daschle and Hillary Clinton on the Senate Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee. In 2008, he was a member of the National Leadership Council of the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign and founded the Young Latino Professionals for Obama finance initiative. Most recently, he is a co-chair and founder of the Futuro44 and Young Business Leaders for Obama finance committees for the Obama for America campaign.

Emanuel's non-profit experience includes working with the United Farm Workers Foundation, Quest Scholars Program at Stanford University, Center for a New Generation of the Peninsula Boys & Girls Club, and Full Circle Fund. He has served as a director or advisor for C.E.O. Women, CentroNia, Equal Rights Advocates, Free Minds, League of Women Voters of San Francisco, Voto Latino, and the Woodrow Wilson High School Alumni Foundation in Los Angeles. In 2008, Emanuel was recognized as the Bay Area Young Nonprofit Board Member of the Year. He is the founder of Latino Legacy Weekend, a retreat space for innovative Latino leaders to build bridges across sectors, and Society for Entrepreneurship in Latin America, a network of entrepreneurs based at Stanford University.

Emanuel currently serves on the National Advisory Board for New Leaders Council and Chairs the No Labels Latino Leadership Committee. Emanuel graduated with a B.A. in Urban Studies from Stanford University where he was a recipient of the Jerry I. Porras Visionary Leadership Award and the Cecilia and Tony Burciaga Community Development Award. Emanuel was born and raised in the Eastside of Los Angeles.

Mike Podhorzer is the Political Director of the AFL-CIO, a Federation of 56 national and international labor unions representing over 9 million workers. He oversees the Federation's strategic planning, political campaign targeting and opinion research testing.

An experienced analyst, he is the lead architect of the strategy to expand labor's political reach to all of America's workers, whether or not they are covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

He has signaled a significant change in course to establish independence from the political parties, and emphasize investment in labor's own structure, rather than party structures. Accordingly, the Federation will erect a permanent, year-round mobilization to elect worker-friendly candidates, advocate for issues and demand greater accountability from elected officials.

Described as "ambitious" by the New York Times, Podhorzer explains, "Our broad goal is to ensure that working people have a real voice in the political process." He then added, "We cannot be beholden to any politician or party."

In 2010, Podhorzer was instrumental in building the mobilization that delivered 64 percent of the union vote to endorsed candidates. In that cycle, the political program reached 17 million union voters in 26 states -- after knocking on 8.5 million doors, passing out 19.4 million worksite leaflets and making tens of millions of phone calls.

In the 2008 election cycle, AFL-CIO put over 250,000 union volunteers on the streets in the largest independent voter mobilization in history, helping to elect President Barack Obama. During that cycle, the AFL-CIO was engaged in 13 Senate races and 60 House contests as well as the presidential race. Election night polling by Peter D. Hart Research Associates showed AFL-CIO union members across the battleground states supported Obama by a 68-38 margin.

Podhorzer has worked in politics for the last twenty five years. He is the Co-Chair of Catalist, Founding Chair of the Analyst Institute, and on the boards of numerous progressive organizations including America Votes, State Voices, and Progressive Majority.

Matt Singer is one of the founders and past CEO of Forward Montana, one of the original members of the Bus Federation. Before joining the staff of Forward Montana, Matt worked in communications and online organizing for the Progressive States Network, Montanans for Tester, and several other organizations and campaigns. His activism and organizing have been profiled by The Washington Post, Missoula Independent, Associated Press, and The New Republic. Senator Jon Tester once described him as "one smart dude." He was named one of "40 Under 40" young leaders by the New Leaders Council in 2010.

Michael Slater came to Project Vote in 2004 with more than a decade's experience in community, labor and faith-based organizing. As Deputy Director, Mr. Slater helped build Project Vote's Election Administration program, and led successful efforts to overturn restrictive voter registration laws in seven states, including the landmark Project Vote v. Blackwell case. Mr. Slater was promoted to Executive Director in 2008, and in the months leading up to the historic 2008 election supervised one of the largest and most successful voter registration efforts in the nation's history. In the past two years Mr. Slater has overseen the dramatic growth of Project Vote's Election Administration, Litigation, and Research programs, transforming the organization into one of the nation's leading voting rights and advocacy organizations. Under his guidance, the Public Agency Voter Registration Project has taken a nationwide leadership role in enforcing the National Voter Registration Act, including major litigation victories in Ohio and Missouri to ensure those states are registering their low-income public assistance clients. Through the expanded Research Department, Mr. Slater has conceived and overseen the writing and release of dozens of policy papers and reports, including Representational Bias in the 2008 Electorate and The NVRA at Fifteen: A Report to Congress. Mr. Slater has contributed to the passage of positive election legislation in several states, authored or edited numerous articles and publications on election policy, and is frequently called upon to testify on election issues.

Norma A. Vega has recently joined the Washington D.C based Ibarra Strategy Group (ISG) as an Advocacy Consultant. She assists ISG with online advocacy, intergovernmental support and Latino community outreach. Previously, Norma served as Executive Director of the Office of the Census 2010 in the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.Norma developed a citywide educational and community outreach campaign that resulted in the highest Census mail participation rate than any other comparable city.She also worked in the Mayor's office as an Area Director where she served as the liaison to the community, civic groups, and city departments.

Prior to joining the Office of the Mayor, Ms. Vega began her career at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) as a Paralegal.Later as the Belmont Parent School Partnership Director, Ms. Vega organized parents to ensure the construction of the Ed Roybal Learning Center and the Vista Hermosa Park. She then served as the National Parent School Partnership Trainer and worked with school districts, community groups, and local governments to effectively engage Latino parents.At the same time, she worked with parents locally to develop and execute a successful grass-roots/legal organizing campaign to protect much-needed school construction funds and guarantee the construction of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools at the former Ambassador Hotel site.

Norma Vega is a passionate and motivated community leader who has dedicated her career to advocating and organizing for social justice issues and enhancing the quality of life for under-served communities. She continues her volunteer work on various philanthropic, civic, and social justice projects.She was awarded an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship and was the Co-Chair for Young Latino Professionals for Obama in 2008. Ms. Vega graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine.She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Los Angeles.She now resides in Washington, D.C.

Jeremy C Wilson has one of the most widely read blogs in the MBA world. Various sites have named him the top MBA blogger. He writes about the social enterprise revolution, entrepreneurship, leadership and doing things differently.

MBA Crystal Ball says that Jeremy wins the battle of MBA bloggers hands down. BeatTheGMAT.com says Jeremy is one of our first premier partners because of his authentic voice and ability to connect with MBA aspirants. And Northwestern University went to him for advice as they are setting up their university blog for its business school. Jeremy's long term goal is to have the most popular blog in the world written by a single individual.

Throughout his career, Jeremy has also worked on with entrepreneurs, political campaigns, and non-profits. Most recently, he's worked with Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Management Leadership for Tomorrow, GottaMentor.com, BeatTheGMAT.com and the Northwestern Entrepreneurship Law Center. Jeremy also worked with renowned Silicon Valley CEO Alyssa Rapp as one of her first employees at Bottlenotes.com.

His latest project, the Education Matters Project, just launched in late March. Funded by the McCormick Foundation and powered by Blue State Digital, the site's mission is to change the way humankind views the benefits of education and to help fund a world-class education for those who need it most.

Jeremy is currently completing a dual law and business degree (JD/MBA) at Northwestern Law School and the Kellogg School of Management, where he was named a McCormick Scholar, Vedder Price Scholar, NBMBAA Scholar, NSHMBA Scholar, Kellogg Diversity Scholar and Verizon Scholar.

Jeremy graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Cultural Anthropology.

Carlos Marquez is the Western Deputy Political Director for the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, the nation's largest LGBT Political Action Committee where he oversees the organization's political operation and manages candidate and incumbent relations in 13 states. In the 2012 election cycle, Mr. Marquez provides strategic advice to a portfolio of nearly 50 campaigns, including two congressional candidates.

Prior to joining the Victory Fund, Mr. Marquez forged a cutting-edge partnership with Planned Parenthood as the Interim Executive Director of HONOR Fund to improve health and academic outcomes among queer Latino youth in Southeast Los Angeles through the implementation of a community-based family acceptance program. He also helped develop the first anti-bullying policy of the San Diego region as the Director of Programs & Public Affairs for the San Diego LGBT Community Center where he managed the agency's civic engagement and public policy initiatives and supervised The Center's signature community programs. In 2010, Mr. Marquez helped shepherd San Diego's citizen-led redistricting effort as Vice-Chair of the City's Redistricting Commission, involving a robust and inclusive public participation process and resulting in the adoption of a map that was lauded on-time, under-budget and legally defensible.

Mr. Marquez has devoted his career to public service, advocating on behalf of working families, in support of universal early education funding and civil liberties while at SEIU Local 221, the United Way of America and the ACLU's National Legislative Office respectively. He's also worked to empower and prepare emerging leaders to pursue careers in public service as a former Co-Chair of the San Diego New Leaders Council and convener of The Center's Young Professionals Council.

Christopher Torres works with the Latino and Immigrant Rights organizations and leaders to build the community's power and make it a force in our politics and elections. Chris grew up in Brooklyn, New York with his mom, 4 siblings and pet Chihuahua. He first learned about Organizing at his Catholic Church where he was enlisted by his Priest Father John Powis to join him in many direct actions against Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Together with his church, he fought back against police brutality and for more resources for the community.

Before joining NOI, Christopher worked at the Center for Community Change as their Elections Manager. He supported and ran issue based campaigns in partnership with the major Immigrant Rights organizations throughout the country Most recently, he worked with volunteer leaders at Promise Arizona on their fight against SB 1070 where they registered over 13,000 voters in a month and mobilized over 50,000 voters on election day. He also helped lead the field operation as the Deputy National Field Director for the Reform Immigration For America legislative campaign.

During the 2008 Presidential election, Chris served in many capacities during the primary on the Obama Campaign; Starting in Iowa as an organizer for the Caucuses and finishing as the Regional Field Director in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chris worked on several other political campaigns including the Rhode Island Senate Campaign for Sheldon Whitehouse, the State Senate campaign for Grace Diaz and the Philadelphia Mayoral Campaign for Tom Knox. Torres is an alum of Brown University and lives in Mount Pleasant in Washington, D.C.

Daniel McSwain is a Voto Latino spokesperson, and Director of New Media at OMP, a digital strategy and fundraising agency in Washington, DC. McSwain has designed digital campaigns and implemented organizational plans for non-profits, federal government agencies, and political campaigns. He was the blogger for the President-elect at Change.gov, the website for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition. McSwain was a new media strategist and writer in the 2008 Obama for America headquarters in Chicago. He holds an MS in Public Relations from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, and a BA in English from University of Notre Dame.

Jen is a founding staff member of Young Invincibles. She directs the policy, research, communications and outreach staff. Jen graduated with honors from UCLA in 2007, where she worked for 3 years as a reporter for the campus' daily paper, and received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2010, where she served as a Notes Editor for the Georgetown Journal of International Law. While at the Law Center, she also served as a law clerk for Senator Feinstein’s Judiciary subcommittee. She is admitted to the California bar.

Jen currently serves a consumer representative for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, where she works with Insurance Commissioners around the country to ensure strong consumer protections in the health care industry. She also serves as the consumer advocacy negotiator for the Department of Education’s 2012 negotiated rulemaking around student loans. She has authored numerous reports and issue briefs focusing on health and economic issues facing the Millennial generation. She has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Huffington Post, among other media outlets. Jen hails from Los Angeles, CA, and is an avid fan of all UCLA sports teams.

Matias Ramos is the Newman Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He works in the Institute's communications department. Prior to joining IPS, Matias had fellowships at the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and the National Immigration Law Center. In addition, he is a co-founder of United We Dream, a national immigrant youth advocacy network. He studied Political Science at UCLA, where he was involved in the publication of "Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out," and the forthcoming "Undocumented and Unafraid." He was born in Argentina in 1985, and migrated to Orange County, CA in 1999.

Nancy Meza is a human being from Jalisco Mexico. She was brought to the U.S by her responsible and courageous mother at the age of two and proudly grew up in East Los Angeles California. She is a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights. After High School she attended East Los Angeles Community College and transferred to UCLA where she became actively involved in organizing around immigrant rights issues with IDEAS at UCLA and Dream Team Los Angeles. She graduated with a degree in Chicana/o Studies and a Labor and Work Place Studies minor in 2010. She is currently an intern at the Dream Resource Center; a project out of the UCLA Labor Center and continues to organize with Dream Team Los Angeles where she is a member of the media and communications team.

Rosario is an internationally renowned actor and activist who deeply believes in galvanizing and enfranchising American Latinos to promote a stronger America. Both Newsweek and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation are among the institutions that have recognized her for her tireless work with Voto Latino. She has participated in several roundtable discussions as it relates to Latino health, culture and civic participation at the White House. Rosario's leadership, commitment and vision has brought on board A-list celebrities who include Jessica Alba, Jennifer Lopez, Common, Wilmer Valderrama and Pitbull.

Named by PODER Magazine as one of the most notable 20 US Hispanics under 40 years old, Maria Teresa Kumar is the founding Executive Director of Voto Latino. Under her leadership, Maria Teresa grounded the organization in technology developing the first voter registration via text message in 2006. She has grown the organization from a voter registration outlet to the leading social media, online community with over 15 media partners, 120 bloggers, 20 national partners and a field operation in seven states which have registered over 120,000 voters. She has leveraged over $16 million in gratis air-time and technology since the organization's founding. Maria Teresa created and directed Voto Latinos' civic engagement campaigns, all of which have garnered awards and praise from both the public and private sectors. Featured in HBO's Celebrity Habla, Maria Teresa most recently negotiated, co-produced and hosted the first English language, prime-time townhall with MSNBC called "Beyond Borderlines: Latinos & Immigration".

Viva is the Director of the Arizona Montessori Association, and a Voto Latino representative and contributing blogger who resides in Phoenix, Arizona. His blogs provide an insider perspective from ground zero of the heated Immigration debate and the daily battles many American Latino families face for their basic civil rights.