Cristina Tzintzún

Founder and Executive Director of Jolt Texas

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Tzintzún is founder and executive director of Jolt Texas, a Latino civic advocacy and leadership organization. She is also a co-founder of the Workers Defense Project, a worker’s rights organization focusing on immigrant workers in Texas. Tzintzún has written for NPR, Vogue and The New York Times and is the author of “Presente! Latino Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice.”