Latinx Social Work Collective
Chairs:
Luis Roberto Machuca, MSW
The Latinx Social Work Collective meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Chapter office, located at 50 Broadway, Suite 1001, New York, NY 10004.
The vision of the Latinx Social Work Collective is to sustain a space for Latinx social workers that are committed to build and move a base that is representative of our various identities. We commit ourselves to anti-racist principles and practice and to combat the oppressive policies that imprison our gente (people). The collective will do this by advocating for the interests and needs of our Latinx social workers, communities and familia (family). We will promote the reflection and educación (education) of our profession on the cultural nuances of practice across sectors. We embrace the ancestral mandate to heal our colonized past through community care. Finally, reconocemos (we recognize) the call to libertad (liberation) that dismantles borders in all its forms.
Co-Chair Luis Roberto Machuca
After a heinous hate crime that shook the island, a group of students and I founded an Amnesty International Chapter at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, where I graduated with a degree in Sociology. As a student at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, I formed strategic partnerships with students and key stakeholders to advocate for an anti-racist lens education. I serve as member of the Code of Ethics Review Task Force, which aims to update the code and optimize its relevancy and viability. Being a counselor at an after-school program allows me to lead by example and empower the students to be all they can be through liberation practices rooted in social work theories. I represent the younger professional who will be the leading organizers, clinicians, academics and policy makers of our profession.
Co-Chair Alicia Montero
Alicia has extensive supervisory and leadership experience in mental health, child welfare and community settings. She is currently the Director of Clinical Services at NYC Department of Homeless Services. Prior she spent 14 years at the Jewish Board, most recently at the Manhattan North Counseling Center as the Clinic Director. As Clinic Director Alicia hired bilingual/bicultural staff to reflect the LatinX clients the clinic primarily serves. During her tenure at the Jewish Board, Alicia was also a leader of the agency's Confronting Structural Racism (COR) initiative as well as a co-facilitator of one of the COR groups, the Administrators of Color.
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