Lizeth Chacon

Lizeth brings over 16 years of organizing and power-building experience in Colorado for communities of color, immigrants and working families. As an immigrant from Chihuahua, Mexico who came to the United States at the age of 12, her lived-experience of the injustices immigrants face both informs her passion to fight for systemic change and her leadership style in fighting for and with our communities.

Most recently, she has served as the Founding Executive Director of Colorado People’s Alliance (COPA), a member-led, racial justice, multi-issue organization that has won unprecedented victories for working families and immigrants in Colorado. For example, in 2016, Lizeth co-chaired the statewide ballot measure that successfully increased Colorado’s minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 and she co-created the Statewide Immigrant Resistance Table. She also co-founded and serves on the Governing Council for the Transformative Leadership for Change, which nurtures the sustainability, solidarity and radical visions of BIPOC movement leaders in Colorado.