Katherine Torres

Katherine Torres is a Mass Media and Communications Fellow at the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), where she uplifts Latino voices through multimedia storytelling and advocacy. A rising senior at Wellesley College double-majoring in Political Science and Education Studies, Katherine is a Boston native and the daughter of Nicaraguan immigrants, deeply committed to immigrant justice and Latino advocacy. She is an Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholar, a public service scholarship awarded to support emerging leaders in public service. Through this scholarship, she worked in refugee shelters in Greece and collaborated with journalists in Malaysia to produce a short film on global migration. At the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), she published a multimedia article on how restrictive U.S. immigration policies threaten the country’s technological competitiveness. On campus, she serves as president of Raíz, Wellesley’s immigrant advocacy organization, and is a longtime leader at the immigration non-profit, Agencia ALPHA, where she leads college readiness, financial literacy, and civic engagement workshops for newly arrived immigrant youth.