Ryan Perez is a Latinx community organizer at Communities Organizing Latinx Power and Action. Prior to organizing in Minneapolis and statewide, Ryan participated in student and campus activism, winning the Newman Civic Fellowship for his voter engagement work with the Campus Vote Project and his leadership in Students Demand Action. Ryan also brings experience from electoral campaigns and fundraising initiatives. The son of a Puerto Rican immigrant and the first in his family to go to college, Ryan emphasizes racial and economic justice in all his work. He believes vision must be met with movement, and he is working to elevate his community’s movement capacity through environment and democracy programs.