Rosa Velázquez
2026-2027 Obama Foundation USA Leader
Executive Director, Arkansas Movement Collective
De Queen, Arkansas
Rosa Velázquez is the executive director of the Arkansas Movement Collective, a nonprofit community organizing accelerator, where she builds civic infrastructure and collective power across under-resourced groups in the South. Over the past decade, she has worked on immigration policy at both the national and state levels. Through the #Right2Dream movement in 2012, she contributed to advocacy efforts that helped inform the creation of DACA. In Arkansas, she has worked across the aisle to expand access to in-state tuition, professional licensing, and the Arkansas State DREAM Act, reforms that have affected more than 10,000 Arkansans.
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