Staff members and grantees from the U.S. State, District of Columbia

Maria Echaveste is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group. She served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton from 1998-2001, managing domestic policy initiatives on education, civil rights, immigration and bankruptcy reform. From 1993-1997 Echaveste was the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor.

Fred Azcarate (Chair) has been a social movement leader for 20 years. For over 12 years he has been the Executive Director of Jobs with Justice, a national coalition campaign for workers' rights, social and economic justice. Jobs with Justice works with coalitions leading the fight on workers' rights, economic and social justice and global justice in more than 40 cities in the United States.