Guest Panelist: Ms. Maria Jimenez Activist in the Latino community for the last forty-seven years, Ms. Jimenez has organized campaigns for social change, has provided concrete support to immigrant workers fight for social justice, and voiced immigrant rights concerns in community and political processes at work locally, nationally and internationally. She is author of the report, Humanitarian Crisis: Migrant Deaths at the US-Mexico Border, and has been a co-participant in efforts to reduce migrant deaths in South Texas with the Houston United Prevention of Migrant Deaths Working Group, Los Angeles Del Desierto and the Texas Civil Rights Project. From 1989 to 2011, Jimenez served on the Board of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and currently serves on the Board of the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA). She also participates in the immigrant rights coalition Houston United/Houston Unido.