Cristher Estrada-Perez is the Executive Director of the Student Loan Fund, with over seven years of experience fighting for racial and economic justice in education. Cristher is a community organizer, educator, storyteller, and healer rooted in anti-racist practices, decolonization, and collective liberation. She is a Boricua, English language learner, and a first-generation college graduate from the University of Saint Joseph's with over $70k in student debt. Cristher uses this experience to organize CT student borrowers, their families, and allies to fight for full student debt cancellation and free state and community colleges. But it is the interconnectedness of our struggles, our stories, and the relationships she gets to build with other borrowers that bring her to this work every day.