Lizette Escobedo

Lizette Escobedo currently serves as the Associate Vice President of Civic Engagement & Advocacy at AltaMed Health Services. Previously, she was the National Director of Civic Engagement at NALEO Educational Fund overseeing the Civic Engagement Department of over 30 staff and the organization’s Latino civic engagement efforts nationally. Escobedo formerly served as Director of National Census Program at the NALEO Educational Fund where she lead national efforts to ensure a full count of Latinos in the 2020 Census. Lizette served in a similar role with NALEO Educational Fund during the 2010 Census. Prior to returning to the NALEO Educational Fund she worked as Communications Director at SEIU Local 2015, one of the largest long-term care local unions in the country representing over 386,000 long-term care workers.

Throughout the course of her career Lizette has lead and organized social justice, civic engagement, and issue campaigns — playing a lead role in one of the largest nationally coordinated Immigration Reform alliances, the Alliance for Citizenship. During her role as Communications and Development Director at the Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, Lizette helped raise over $1.4 million and helped launch civic engagement campaigns in key battleground states. Previously at the NALEO Educational Fund Lizette helped revamp the nationally recognized ya es hora ¡Ciudadanía! campaign in 2007 where she helped the organization substantially develop its strategic partnerships and national coalition work. Additionally, Lizette helped lead community and public relations outreach efforts nationally for the 2010 census and helped launch the New Americans Campaign first ever DACA information hotline.

In 2014 Lizette served as Field Operations Director for U.S. House Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard. During her tenure there she was tasked with developing community and organizational relationships to tackle the issue of immigration, labor, homelessness and affordable housing. Lizette has been recognized on various occasions for her work to bring in innovative ideas and cutting-edge technology to labor movement communications, presenting in various conferences including Netroots Nation. Lizette has also served as a Latinx voice on issues of environmental justice – serving as a bilingual contributor to Moms Clean Air Force, a community of mothers concerned about air quality, water quality, and the preservation of natural resources. In 2019 Lizette was named Woman of the Year by California Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon (CA-AD 57).

Born and raised in South East Los Angeles, Lizette is the proud single mom of her eleven year old daughter, “Rosita” and proud daughter of Mexican immigrants. Lizette graduated from the University of California, San Diego where she earned a B.A. in Communications and Ethnic Studies.