Abundant Leader Program

Abundant Leader 2017

Born in El Salvador, has over 10 years in organizing and understanding the challenges the East Boston immigrant community faces from anti-immigrant and racist policies. In her native country, she developed direct experience in organizing for social justice. She has been a member, volunteer and consultant with NUBE since 2013 and lives in East Boston since 2010.

Abundant Leader 2022

Abundant Leader 2022

Abundant Leader 2017

Leidy is a Colombian native who lives in East Bostons’ Orient Heights along with her family. She is one of the first persons who who helped create the Abundant Leader program training, later on taking the role of NUBE Messenger for 2 years. Now she is working with Educators for excellence where she continues to practice our values, personal care as well as helping our community through her current position by becoming involved with families who are most affected within the educational system.

Abundant Leader 2017 & Root Council Member since 2019

Cristian has been a member volunteer with NUBE since 2010, his involvement with the organization began when he was in high school! From volunteering in many events, to now being a part of the Root Council, Cristian has had a deep belief in NUBE’s mission. We are grateful for his leadership which has helped make East Boston a better community.

Abundant Leader 2020

Born in El Salvador, Reina has been in this country for 19 years and counting. In 2012 she became involved with NUBE and in 2020 she took the abundant leader training where she was able to develop her abilities. Through this she has been able to gain a strong connection with her community and is dedicated and focused on creating an abundant and just community for low income, BIPOC and immigrant populations.

Abundant Leader 2020

As part of the Abundant leader program at NUBE, I have learned to have more empathy with other individuals, listen intentionally and be able to respect the opinions of others as well as share my own personal history and be more vulnerable.

Abundant Leader 2020

My name is Gio, I am a Salvadoran native. I began my community work through Cosecha in 2018 with the drivers licenses for undocumented campaign. In 2019 I joined NUBE as a volunteer member where I was able to develop my capacity in conversations, aiding others, and being empathetic towards my neighbors in East Boston. I have been a part of various community events, bringing information and joy to members of my community. In the year of 2021, I was a part of NUBE as an abundant leader where I learned more about the civic work that our organization is involved in as well as how to help our neighbors create political power.

Abundant Leader 2021

Reflecting on my experience as an Abundant Leader, I can confidently say that I have grown as a person. I have done a-lot of self-reflection throughout my training and noticed that I had views and opinions that were unconsciously created and enforced by capitalism and white supremacy. With the Abundant Leadership training, I was able to deeply understand the vision of the village filled with Abundant Leaders that NUBE has, and I want to continue being part of the change and being part of the village that this has come to. As an Abundant Leader, I can now say that values and actions will always be influenced by justice, solidarity, resilience and abundance.

Abundant Leader 2021

Deysi is a young immigrant Latinx who has been active with NUBE since 2019 and was recruited through our canvassing program. She trained to be the lead messenger and develop our communication and social media plan. Deysi has now transitioned to be the co-coordinator of the Eastie Mutual Aid and is now supporting the Charlestown pilot group.

Abundant Leader 2021-2022

Born in El Salvador, I migrated to the United States of America at the age of 5 years old. The change was difficult but through years of study I was able to graduate from a College University. I have been with NUBE for over one year and since then I have been able to have the opportunity to learn more and educate myself on how to better help my community through door knocking, phone booths, civic booths, and trainings. NUBE has shown me how to work as a team in order to create a healthier ecology with other community organizations, allowing us to accomplish common goals. Through NUBE I have been able to put my experience to work in various forms and hope to continue doing so in the future.