Alexandra Flores-Quilty is a political organizer, strategist, and trainer devoted to social justice and movement building. Currently, she serves as the Campaign Director for Free Speech For People, a national non-profit non-partisan organization dedicated to defending our Constitution and strengthening our democracy. Through their cutting-edge legal advocacy, public education, and organizing work, their work focuses on challenging big money in politics, confronting corruption in government, fighting for free and fair elections, and advancing a new jurisprudence grounded in the promises of political equality and democratic self-government.
Ms. Flores-Quilty spent the first part of her career working on education justice. She served as Chair of the Oregon Student Association (OSA) where she was a part of winning instate tuition for undocumented Oregonians and developing OSA’s electoral program that broke records around the country in voter registration and turnout. Later she served as the elected President of the US Student Association (USSA) where she worked with Senator Bernie Sanders’s office to introduce federal legislation for free higher education and organized the 2015 Million Student March. Ms. Flores-Quilty was a co-founder of #AllofUs, which built political power behind progressive candidates. She then served as the Executive Director of By the People, a pro-democracy grassroots campaign that organized to impeach Donald Trump. Ms. Flores-Quilty is a Lead Trainer at the Momentum Training Institute where she has trained and supported social movements in the US and around the world.
Alexandra was not a member of the Insitute of Global Leadership (IGL) but has been invited into the community through her partner, an A13 IGL alum, Alfonso Enriquez-Castro. Alexandra and Alfonso currently live in Brooklyn with their frisky dog, Chacho.