Paulina Gonzalez-Brito

Chief Executive Officer of Rise Economy (FORMERLY the California Reinvestment Coalition)

Paulina Gonzalez-Brito (they/them/elle) identifies as Xicane, Purepecha, Mestize. Their great-grandparents were Mexican Arizona copper miners who took part in the historic Metcalf-Greenlee strikes in the early 1900s and whose father was an immigrant union hotel worker. Paulina has dedicated more than 20 years of their life to leading economic justice organizing campaigns to expand worker rights, immigrant rights, and the rights of low-income and underrepresented communities of color. Under their leadership, Rise Economy has expanded its work to directly challenge systemic and structural racism within the U.S. financial system and to focus the organization’s work on building collective political and organizing power amongst and with frontline communities to close the racial wealth gap.