Yanira arias

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Yanira joined the Alianza Américas team in August 2014, in response to the need to confront the detention and stigmatization of thousands of Central American children and their families detained on the southern border of the United States. In December 2014, she was appointed as Manager of National Campaigns of Alianza Américas. She is originally from El Salvador, and has more than a decade of experience in the field of public health, with special experience in community mobilization and participation, community organizing and capacity building to improve resource management and structures for address health disparities and social justice structures. From 2003 to 2012, Yanira was part of the Latino Commission on AIDS in New York. Yanira was the Director of Community Organization for the Latino program in the South of the United States, of the Latino Commission; during which time he led the development and implementation of the Dennis deLeon Institute for Sustainable Leadership, for emerging leaders in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Salvadoran American National Network (SANN) and has been an active member of Alianza Americas for many years. Since 2008, she has been actively supporting local leaders on the island of Puerto Rico on issues related to health equity and human rights for the island's LGBTQI communities; In 2010 I helped with technical assistance for the development of what is constituted as the Citizen Alliance for LGBTTA Health of Puerto Rico . Yanira graduated from the University of El Salvador in 1996, one of the top two universities in the country, with a focus on journalism. Yanira lives and works in the Bay area of ​​Northern California, the headquarters region of our member organization CARECEN in San Francisco.