Margarita Hernandez

Biographical Information
"Margarita comes to SJL with more than ten years of experience in organizing, electoral politics, and coalition-building. She is also a trainer for Wellstone Action’s Movement Building Project. Previously, she was the Organizing Director and the Interim Executive Director for the Grassroots Institute of New Jersey and the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, where she developed and led the organizing and political campaigns, including their new candidate recruitment and leadership development pilot program, and co-launched the nonpartisan civic engagement table to increase voter participation of underrepresented voters. Before that she was at Planned Parenthood of NYC where she organized immigrant parents and coordinated coalition efforts in support of comprehensive sex education in NYC’s public schools. Margarita started her organizing career at the New York Working Families Party (WFP). At the WFP she helped elect progressive labor and community leaders, organized state minimum wage and local living wage campaigns and built and developed the NYC membership base. In 2007, she participated in SJL’s Leadership Semester I, where she honed her skills in strategic planning, sustainability practices, leadership and management. Margarita was born in San Salvador, El Salvador."

Affiliations

 * Program Coordinator, Social Justice Leadership