Adriana Cerrillo
Board
of Education, Director
Adriana.Cerrillo@mpls.k12.mn.us |
612.986.1613
Term: 2021-2025 | District 4
For the past 13 years, she
has been a community activist and organizer advocating for policies to protect
and include marginalized communities. In 2007, she entered the world of
community organizing while in college, after learning that authorities were
threatening to deport a young, undocumented mother in urgent need of medical
attention. Adriana fundraised enough money for the woman’s care and founded the
Juliana Mateo Foundation for Disabled Farmworkers.
As a Florida resident, she
taught at UnidosNow.org and established the Future Leaders Academy for Youth.
Adriana stood alongside Manatee County teachers as they rallied for better pay
and she worked collaboratively with non-profits statewide to successfully stop
Florida from passing its own version of SB-1070. Three years later, Adriana
received the NAACP’s 2013 Unsung Heroine Award for her community
activism.
Since moving to
Minneapolis in 2013, Adriana’s efforts include successfully working to fire a
cop guilty of racial profiling in Chaska, collaboratively giving Know Your
Rights presentations to communities and teaching an American Basic Civics
Program to involve youth in political processes. In 2017, she introduced the
Sanctuary Now platform before Minneapolis City Council to protect immigrant and
refugee rights. For the last two and a half years, Adriana has actively
organized alongside parents at Emerson and other district schools, while
working as a family advocate.
Aside from her passionate
career in activism and advocacy, Adriana is a mother, grandmother, guardian and
business owner.
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