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Alex Sánchez is a founder and executive director of Voces Unidas de las Montañas, the first Latino-created, Latino-led and Latino-serving advocacy organization in the Roaring Fork, Colorado River and Eagle River valleys.

Alex has extensive experience working on social justice issues and leading advocacy, leadership and civic engagement programs.

In Denver, Alex served as Denver director for the national non-profit, Stand for Children, executing city-wide organizing initiatives, electing education champions to the school board and holding policy-makers accountable for better outcomes for children of color. Alex also spent eight years as a senior administrator in large, urban school districts in Colorado, Texas and Florida, leading large departments and teams.

Alex began his professional career with Pfizer in New York, building strategic partnerships for the pharmaceutical-giant and working on issues of access and health disparities. He has also managed his own public affairs and political consulting firm, working domestically and internationally on social justice issues.

Before joining Voces Unidas, Alex led an early childhood education non-profit in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Alex is a proud son of Mexican immigrants who grew up in El Jebel and attended Basalt schools. Alex is the first in his family to graduate from high school and receive college degrees from both Colorado Mountain College and Colorado State University.

Alex serves on the boards of COLOR, Conservation Colorado, and on statewide task forces including the Governor’s Health Equity Response Team, the Governor’s New American Office’s Subcommittee on refugees and immigrants and the Center for Health Progress’ Coalition for Immigrant Health.