Belinda Moreira is a passionate advocate for families and students and is a native Houstonian. Belinda attended Georgetown University and was a 2013 Teach for America Corps member in the D.C. Region. She taught high school English and coached tennis in Prince George’s County Public Schools and worked with many students who were immigrants and refugees. She was able to witness firsthand how policies impacted her students and the challenges that students faced. This led Belinda to become an advocate for educational equity and she was a founding member of the D.C. Education Coalition for Change, an educational equity organizing network in Washington. After six years in Washington, Belinda wanted to take all the passion and skills she developed and return home to work with other leaders and be closer to her family. She continues to organize and is a Regional Strategy Team member at ONE Houston. In this role, she advocates to help end systems of inequity in education, including more support for immigrant, refugee and undocumented students, end the school to prison pipeline, have more equitable resources across campuses, and adequate services for all learners.