Sulma Arias brings over 20 years of organizing experience to her role as Executive Director for People’s Action, a national network of 38 member-based, powerbuilding organizations. She is a nationally recognized leader in the fights for immigrant rights, voting rights, and economic justice, and her practice has always centered directly impacted people to build power.

Sulma immigrated to Kansas from El Salvador at the age of 12, and ultimately went on to lead Sunflower Community Action, where she built a base of volunteers to fight for driver’s licenses and tuition access for immigrants. She became (National) People’s Action’s first immigrant rights organizer, then led the Fair Immigration Reform Movement. Sulma came home to People’s Action in 2022, where she has led efforts to reinvigorate the movement for social justice through an Organizing Revival, bringing allies together around a shared set of organizing skills and practices that can meet the unprecedented challenges to our democracy.