Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez (she/her)
President
NextGen America
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Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez (she/her)
President
NextGen America
Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez is the President of NextGen America, the country’s largest youth voting rights organization, which helped mobilize one in nine young voters across the country in the 2023 elections. Named “Hero of the New South” by Southern Living Magazine and People of the Year by Tribeza Magazine, Cristina has spent the last twenty years founding and leading some of the most creative organizations to raise wages, tackle the climate and student debt crises, and fight for immigrant rights. Cristina began her social justice career when she was a college student and co-founded Workers Defense Project (WDP), a workers’ rights organization with the mission to win better working conditions for immigrant workers in Texas. Cristina is an author on issues of race, gender and immigration and was a 2020 U.S. Senate candidate.