Make the Road New York

Formed in 2007 by the merger of Make the Road by Walking and the Latin American Integration Center, Make the Road New York is a grassroots organization dedicated to addressing issues of inequality and economic injustice through community and electoral organizing, strategic policy advocacy, leadership development, youth and adult education, and high quality legal and support services. Based mainly in the low-income neighborhoods of Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; and Port Richmond, Staten Island, the group is led by its more than 7,000 members, who are primarily low-income Latino immigrants, of which 75 percent are women.