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Francesca Menes was hand-picked by destiny to lead a movement started by Ella Baker and echoed by Fannie Lou Hamer.
Two decades earlier, a very young Menes stood amidst a crowd of protestors with her mother at a rally in Little Haiti, barely able to utter a phrase in English and bewildered by her community calling for stability in their homeland, during the time Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, had been ousted.
When you embrace this work, activism seeps into your soul.
Now 35, Menes stands as a devoted immigration activist and political educator who brings power to the people by teaching them how to leverage their collective voice, vote and advocate for public policy to effectuate change. ....

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