Prior to joining 18MR as editor & campaign strategist, Cynthia Brothers was a program officer and consultant at Public Interest Projects and the Four Freedoms Fund in New York, focusing on immigrant rights, integration, and civic engagement. She also coordinates arts and cultural organizing strategies in the immigrant rights movement for The Culture Group and CultureStrike, and is a blog editor and social media editor for Hyphen. Cynthia was born and raised in Seattle and reluctantly admits to clichés such as playing in bands and once making espresso for a living – but is proud that she went to the high school where Bruce Lee first demonstrated his famous “one-inch punch.” You can holler at Cynthia via cynthia@18millionrising.org.