Neidi Dominguez

Neidi Dominguez has been a strategist and organizer for immigrant youth from Los Angeles, California. She was born in Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico. She migrated to the United States at the age of 9 with her mother and younger sister, settling in Pasadena CA. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2008 with honors. In 2006 at UCSC, Neidi co-founded a support group for undocumented students called Students Informing Now (SIN). In 2010, she helped lead a national effort to pass the federal Dream Act to grant a path toward citizenship for undocumented youth, and in 2011, she lead a victorious campaign to gain administrative relief for undocumented youth in the nation through Deferred Action for Early Childhood arrivals.