Marcia Rincon-Gallardo, Executive Director, The Alianza for Youth Justice

Marcia Rincon-Gallardo has dedicated her lifetime career to social justice, and is presently the Executive Director of the Alianza for Youth Justice. The Alianza for Youth Justice is dedicated to supporting and  mentoring Latinx youth  to help transform our youth justice systems with long term solutions.Marcia works directly with  Latinx youth providing mentoring, policy, and data training. Working side by side with the youth in her program she has advocated and improved the data gap to improve racial and ethnic data collection. Many data systems in our detention systems do not reflect the Latinx population in youth detention. As an example, even though 70%  of young women in detention centers in Santa Clara County were Latinx the aggregated data did not reflect Latinx numbers. The disaggregation of ethnic and racial data for Latinx communities is imperative to ensure that services and programs in detention centers are reflective of and effective for our youth.HealthCare UnTold  thanks the young people and their Executive Director, Marcia Rincon-Gallardo, at The Alianza for Youth Justice for their incredible work on behalf of our Latinx communities!#thealianzaforyouthjustice.com#freeouryouth#socialjustice#endmassincarcerationforyouth#justicereform#youthjustice#healthcareuntold#gentecare#marciarincon-gallardo