Vanessa Aramayo
Executive Director, Alliance for a Better Community
Vanessa Aramayo is responsible for overseeing the execution of the organization’s strategic plan, establishing policy priorities, and managing the coordination of ABC’s advocacy efforts aimed at improving the well-being of Latino/as in Los Angeles County.
Vanessa has spent her career working with communities to improve policies at the local, state, and federal level by building power to create lasting and positive systemic change. She brings nearly 20 years of experience working as senior staff for the California State Legislature and the United States Congress as well as leading local and statewide non-profit organizations including California Partnership at the Center for Community Change. Her experience working in coalitions with hundreds of community-based groups, organizing families in urban and rural regions, from campsites to local city halls, Sacramento and Washington DC has led to various victories for underserved communities. She has created programs developing hundreds of active community leaders, produced effective advocacy plans, and cultivated electoral power in key, under-represented communities.
Vanessa has worked on various policy advocacy efforts and campaigns from the local school district level on increasing parental engagement, delivering a more equitable state budget in California, to healthcare and immigration reform at the national level. Vanessa has also worked on state ballot measures providing outreach strategies as well as communications for political campaigns targeting low-propensity voters in communities of color. She served on the Executive Committee of Reclaim CA’s Future, which qualified Proposition 30, the most progressive tax measure in the country which help save California’s economy.
She is a native Angeleno and received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UCLA. She lives with her family in Northeast Los Angeles.