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Our Board of Directors has a unique structure, in which all members are low-income people elected as representatives from the communities where we work. The Board is made up of committed activist leaders from each N2N-MA chapter. Board members have direct life experience with the working family issues, and reside in a low-income and working class communities in Massachusetts.

  • Antonia Anaya, Worcester
  • Rosa Balbot, Holyoke
  • Maria Carrasco, Lynn
  • Pura de la Cruz, Lynn
  • Leonilda Figueroa, Holyoke
  • Joanne Jijon, Worcester
  • Agustina Matos, Lynn
  • Jose Molina, Springfield, co-chair
  • Lynn Norris, Worcester, co-chair
  • Lydia Ortega, Springfield
  • Iris Nereida Rios, Worcester
  • Nilda Torres, Holyoke

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Mirza Barrientos

LIke many of her fellow citizens, Mirza “Michi” Barrientos’s life was marked by the war that shattered her country in the 1980’s. Confrontations between the army and the Guatemalan guerrillas forced the closing of the center where she was studying. However, that didn’t stop her from finishing the career of her dreams and becoming a teacher.