BY KARYL ANN ARMBRUSTER
League of Women Voters

The speaker for the community event, Lunch with a Leader  by the League of Women Voters will be, Marcela Diaz, on Thursday May 21 at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall on Sage Loop in Los Alamos. Marcela Diaz, is the founding executive director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, a statewide immigrant-based organization that works to promote racial and worker justice. 

With an active membership of close to 3,000 people in eight counties, including Santa Fe, Somos: offers community education about rights and remedies; forges leadership opportunities for immigrants and low-wage workers; provides legal services to wage theft victims; engages Latinos in the political and electoral process; and leads grassroots campaigns for local and national policies that strengthen communities.

Diaz will address issues discussed in this last Legislative session as well as answering questions people attending her talk have about other aspects of immigration and the human issues behind it.

Somos’ mission is, “Because we believe that every person should have the freedom to move in order to pursue a better life, Somos works to build a community that does not discriminate against people based on their national origin, that institutes humane migration politics, and that protects the human rights of everyone irrespective of where they are born or what documents they carry.”