Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce is best known for her education and economic advocacy work with the Spanish-speaking communities of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. Her dissertation was entitled, A Study of Mixed-Status Latinx Families on the Northern U.S. Border: Testimonios and the Recognition of Human Dignity. Alvarado-Arce has worked in the nonprofit and educational fields for decades, holding leadership positions at Catholic Social Services/Head Start, Toledo Public Schools (TPS), The University of Toledo (UToledo), and the City of Toledo’s Board of Community Relations (BCR). She is currently the owner of the feminist mobile bookstore, People Called Women (PCW), the editor of the Latinx, bilingual (Spanish/English), community newspaper, La Prensa, Inc., a host of La Prensa HABLA, a public broadcasting radio/podcast series via WGTE, and president of the nonprofit, Avance Latinx Académico Society (ALAS), that oversees the only bilingual (Spanish/English) public elementary school in the district. She is also an Ambassador for the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) and a member of her son, Bishop Chaz D. Boes’ church, Compassion at Calvary, in Toledo, Ohio. On the steering committee of the International Sanctuary Declaration Campaign, her national and international humanitarian efforts have focused on refugees, immigrants, restorative justice, sanctuary support, and the rights of the historically marginalized.