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Cristina Jiménez Moreta

Cristina Jiménez Moreta, MacArthur Genius Awardee, Founder of UNITED WE DREAM

MacArthur Genius Awardee
Founder of UNITED WE DREAM

Cristina Jiménez Moreta is an award-winning community organizer, author, and a leading voice in movements for social justice.

Cristina is Co-Founder and former Executive Director of United We Dream (UWD), the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the country. Cristina has led multiple national and local campaigns for immigrant justice, playing a leadership role in the campaign to win and implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). A distinguished lecturer at the City University of New York, Jiménez was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and was named one of Time 100’s most influential people.

She came to the US from Ecuador in 1998 and grew up undocumented in Queens, New York.

Her debut memoir Dreaming of Home was published in May 2025.

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