Miguel E. Andrade

Background

About Miguel E. Andrade

Miguel E. Andrade was born in Buga, Colombia in 1991 and is a communications/PR freelancer based out of Philadelphia, PA. His work has been featured in various outlets such as Democracy Now, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and Al Punto con Jorge Ramos. He has been active in Philadelphia’s Latino-Immigrant community since late 2008 after getting involved in community activism at the age of 17. Since then he has become one of Philadelphia’s leading young voices for immigrant rights. In 2010 he co-founded, produced and hosted a TV news & analysis program (MMPTV) which aired online as well as on PhillyCAM (Philadelphia's local public access station) and was part of Juntos, a local immigrant rights organization from 2011 to 2019 first as a Youth Organizer and later as the organization's Communications Manager. There he co-founded one of Philadelphia's only Latino-immigrant youth leadership programs and was part of the team that helped turn Philadelphia into a "Sanctuary City" first in 2014 and then again in 2018 limiting Police/ICE collaboration as well as ICE's access to the city's PARS arrest database. His passion for intersectional social justice also led him to work with the city’s only Queer-Latinx Social Justice Organization, Galaei, first as a board member and then as Interim Executive Director in 2016. Because of his work in community activism and empowerment, he was honored by the Philadelphia 76ers in 2014 with the “Hero Among Us” and is an alumn (2017) of the national ReFrame social justice communications mentorship program as well as a board member of the US Human Rights Network.