Publisher's Synopsis
· Author is the founder and president of New American Leadership Project, which has a far-reaching network. Her 2016 TED talk "Immigrant voices makes democracy stronger" garnered over 800,000 views. She has written for The Nation, The New York Times, Huffington Post and others.
· Author is an expert on civic engagement, immigration rights, and electoral politics. She has been recognized nationally and internationally for her work on immigrant integration and diverse leadership.
· Author lectures regularly, is represented by the New York Foundation's Speakers Bureau and featured in Women's Media Center online database SheSource.
· The book will publish into the midterm elections, but will have insights and analysis that will be relevant into the presidential election discourse.
· Potential endorsements from Michael Bloomberg, Diane Guerrero, Maria Hinojosa, Cory Booker, Pramila Jayapal.
· Author has support from the Ford Foundation's Darren Walker and the Carnegie Corporation's Vartan Gregorian.
