Irene Franco Rubio

Irene Franco Rubio has multifaceted experience in movements for change as an intersectional movement builder, from local multicultural grassroots organizing in her hometown of Phoenix for the Arizona Coalition for Change & Our Voice Our Vote to working for the first Indigenous woman in the U.S. House of Representatives for former U.S. Congresswoman Deb Haaland, organizing nationally for Michelle Obama’s nonprofit When We All Vote, is an ambassador of the United State of Women USOW, among other community advocacy engagements.

As a public thought leader, Franco Rubio has received prestigious fellowships including 2022 Open Society Foundations Soros Justice Fellowship, is a Public Voices Fellow of the Op-Ed Project at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Humanity in Action Fellow, John Robert Lewis Fellow at the Faith & Politics Institute, Othering & Belonging Institute Fellow at UC Berkeley, Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Socrates Scholar, Davis Putter Student Activist Scholar, 2022 Vital Voices Global Visionary Fellow, Imagining America Fellow, Harvard Public Policy Leadership Scholar, UCLA Law Fellow, and a UChicago Harris School of Public Policy Summer Scholar, in addition to other public engagement.

As a media professional engaged at the intersection of activism and media, she has been recognized as a Facebook Journalism Project Scholar, Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Equal Voice News Scholar, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Scholar, ProPublica Diversity Scholar, and Pilot Media Technology & Innovation Scholar. She has written and published op-eds in Teen Vogue, Youth to the People, Live Kindly, Healthline, Latino Rebels, Prism, Mitu, among others. Now, Franco Rubio is the Impact Deputy at Revolve Impact, an award-winning movement-driven social change agency.

As a scholar-activist and public thought leader, Franco Rubio continues to advocate for historically oppressed communities at the intersection of activism, media, and academia as a catalyst for change, in a relentless pursuit of justice.

Irene Franco Rubio is available in partnership with Collective Speakers.