Lorella Praeli
CO-PRESIDENT
Lorella Praeli
Lorella Praeli is a strategist, organizer, and advocate advancing economic, racial, and social justice through the power and leadership of everyday people. She serves as Co-President of Community Change and Community Change Action — becoming the first woman to co-lead the organization in its nearly 60-year history.
Born in Peru and raised in Connecticut, Lorella came to the United States as a young person and grew up undocumented. Her life experience has fueled a two-decade career at the intersection of grassroots organizing, national politics, policy advocacy, and electoral campaigns — shaping a new generation of leadership rooted in immigrant and working-class communities.
Before joining Community Change, Lorella led the national immigration program at the American Civil Liberties Union as Deputy National Political Director and Director of Immigration Policy & Campaigns. She previously served as National Director of Policy and Advocacy at United We Dream, where she helped secure the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and redefined the public narrative around immigrant youth. In 2016, she was the national Latino vote director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Her voice is featured in MSNBC and in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Associated Press. She is recognized as a leading voice shaping the future of immigration and democracy—grounded in the belief that real democracy depends on the power of organized people.
CO-PRESIDENT
Dorian Warren
A progressive scholar, organizer and media personality, Dorian Warren has worked to advance racial, economic and social justice for more than three decades. Like the organizations he leads, Warren is driven by the innate conviction that only social movements – led by the people most affected by racial, economic, gender and social injustice – can change their communities and public policies for the better.
Dorian is co-president of Community Change – an organization founded in 1968 by civil rights, labor and community leaders to honor the memory of Robert F. Kennedy’s fight to end poverty in America – and Community Change Action, its political arm. He is also the co-founder of the Economic Security Project, an innovative social impact organization that has already shifted the national conversation around cash, economic power and economic security.
Warren taught for over a decade at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, where he was co-director of the Columbia University Program on Labor Law and Policy. He’s the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race, co-editor of Race and American Political Development, and has penned numerous academic articles. He also worked at MSNBC, where he was a Contributor, fill-in host for “Melissa Harris-Perry” and “Now with Alex Wagner” as well as the Host and Co-Executive Producer of “Nerding Out” on MSNBC’s digital platform (now Peacock). Dorian also co-hosted the “System Check” podcast at The Nation and the “Deep Dive” podcast on The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Perry. He was previously a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and serves on the boards of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Education Fund, the Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund, Economic Security Project, Amalgamated Bank Foundation, and The Nation Magazine Editorial Board, among others. He is also part of the Advisory Circle for Rx Kids.
