Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC)

Career highlight activated ✨FLIC and VML’s “Napkins of Rights” project is a Cannes Bronze Lion winner! 🦁🏆 I’m so proud to be a collaborator on this magnificent project. 🫶🏼💪🏼 https://lnkd.in/eZ_iNvEb

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Yesterday was FLIC’s 6th annual Refugee Day at the Capitol 🏛️ and it’s been my favorite one yet 💕. Aside from leading the press conference 🎤, I was assigned to lead a lobby group of amazing, strong women who are Haitian refugees 🇭🇹. They told their stories with such courage; and while this was the first time at the Capitol for all of them, they were not afraid to speak truth to power. 💪🏼

Me gusta mucho mi faceta de portavoz pero como directora de comunicaciones, siempre intento darle la oportunidad a otros para ser entrevistados por los medios. Aquí una entrevista reciente con Univisión.

The work started in Geneva. Alianza Americas and its member organizations, Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) and COPAL MN, were active participants in the Civil Society Preparatory Meeting, the official space for civil society delegates attending the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) to collectively discuss, engage, and prepare together for our participation into the Summit. The meeting is a descendent of the Civil Society Days, a series of meetings bringing together civil society from across the world to collectivise inputs that help shape the global debate on migration and development. After the preparatory meeting, we organized the Grassroots Forum on Migration Governance in partnership with the Migrant Forum in Asia, where we facilitated a space for dialogue on critical issues facing migrants, migrant families, and civil society. We are fostering spaces to share and discuss the challenges that we face, our successes and challenges. Critical elements of the discussion during that first day include narratives around migration, climate and migration, labor migration, rights protection, and multi-level governance. The shrinking spaces for civil society was a major concern shared by many. For the following days, we hope to have a deeper and more accurate reflection of both the diversity and the multiple concerns migrants have to address in the day-to-day realities we face across the regions and around the world. #GFMD2024 #GFMD14

Alianza Americas will be proudly represented by a delegation of women as part of the Civil Society Consultation portion of Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), to bring to the forefront the voices and concerns of migrants and their organizations. Yareliz Mendez-Zamora, MS.Ed, Alianza Americas Board Member and Federal Lead at Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) Carolina Ortiz, Alianza Americas Board Member and Associate Executive Director COPAL MN Helena María Olea Rodríguez, Deputy Director of Programs at Alianza Americas Ximena Escalante, A.M. (MSW), Strategic Narratives Manager at Alianza Americas The GFMD, being held in Geneva from January 23-25, is the largest state-led, informal voluntary and non-binding process that brings together expertise across governments and stakeholders, from all regions and countries, that is 'state-led but not state-only'. It provides a flexible, multi-stakeholder space where governments can discuss the multi-dimensional aspects to migration, development, and the link between these two areas. Alianza Americas' delegation will be part of side events, including as a panelist in the climate round table, and is also co-organizing the Grassroots Forum on Global Governance. Alianza Americas will also hold bilateral meetings with State Delegations and look forward to opportunities to connect and discuss with Mayors and the private sector initiatives to advance migration governance. Learn more about the GFMD here: https://lnkd.in/gdGkN2xH Follow along our journey on Instagram and X @AlianzaAmericas. #GFMD14 #MigrantLeadership #LatinAmerica #caribbean

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Stop buying things you don’t need. Start supporting pro-immigrant futures. Here are 9 organizations to get started: Aliento American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC) Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) Comunidades Indígenas En Liderazgo Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) Justice Action Center La Union Del Pueblo Entero Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition Texas Civil Rights Project All of these groups are grantee partners with the Tides Foundation I-Belong Fund, an initiative to support organizations in developing narrative strategies that help people see a pro-immigrant future. Learn more about I-Belong: https://lnkd.in/espBpc2m

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