Cristina Jiménez Moreta

Cristina Jiménez Moreta is an award-winning organizer, strategist, and author of Dreaming of Home: A Young Latina’s Journey to Pride, Power, and Belonging. She co-founded United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led network in the U.S., and helped lead the movement that won DACA under the Obama administration. A former undocumented teen from Queens turned TIME100 honoree and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Cristina now teaches and mentors rising changemakers at the City College of New York.