Cassandra Villanueva

Cassandra Villanueva has been working in community-based organizing, advocacy, and policy analysis within local, state, and national capacities since the mid-1990s. Her expertise spans interrelated social change and policy issues including criminal and juvenile justice, immigration, labor, education, civil rights, and economic mobility. Since 1997, she has been connected to the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation community via a number of our grantees (serving as both volunteer and staff), and is a former MRG Grantmaker (2005).