Executive Board
Secretary- VACANT 
Luis Campillo, President
Luis is an Associate at the Ibarra Strategy Group with federal legislative and advocacy experience who assists clients with strategy development, issue advocacy and outreach to national organizations, Congress, Federal agencies, state and local officials, and community organizations. Prior to joining the Ibarra Strategy Group, Luis worked as a Legislative Correspondent in the DC Office of Senator Jack Reed, covering Social Security, senior, housing, and health care-related issues. He also served as the Senator's liaison to the Senate Democratic Hispanic Taskforce. Prior to his work with Senator Reed, Luis served as a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Public Policy Fellow and worked at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) on labor and education issues. During his tenure at NILC, Luis assisted with the planning and execution of activities for the Low-Wage Immigrant Worker (LWIW) Coalition, which brought immigrant advocacy groups and labor organizations together toward the common goals of Comprehensive Immigration Reform and fair working conditions. He also supported NILC's advocacy work around the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Luis graduated from Brown University in 2004 with a BA in Political Science. He is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the Brown Alumni Association, serving as Co-Chair of the Multicultural Alumni Committee, and is actively involved with the Brown University Latino Alumni Council (BULAC). In addition to the 2004-2005 Public Policy Fellowship, Luis was also a 2002 CHCI Intern, 2003 CHCI Scholar and served as Vice President of the CHCI Alumni Association between 2009 and 2010. Luis was born in Armenia, Quindío (Colombia) and grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Iliana Estévez, Vice President
Iliana Estévez is responsible for developing and managing the Hispanic College Fund’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Leadership Project. Iliana helps prepare high school and college students to successfully join the 21st century workforce. Prior to joining the Hispanic College Fund, Iliana served as the Assistant Director of Georgetown University’s Carroll Fellows Initiative. Her responsibilities included managing recruitment, outreach, and program development as well as advising over 100 students. She also managed the Lisa J. Raines Summer Research Fellowship and the Arrupe Scholarship for Peace. In 2007, Iliana was selected as Amnesty International's Ralph J. Bunche Fellow where she developed and led AIUSA’s advocacy strategies to improve the working conditions of migrant workers. Iliana also received a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Public Policy Fellowship through which she worked at the World Bank and at the Washington Office on Latin America. Iliana graduated from Boston College in 2004 with a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies.
Enrique Cortez, Treasurer
Enrique Cortez is the Founder and President of Enitial Advanced Communications, a firm focusing on public relations, strategic counsel and marketing services incorporated with multicultural capabilities. For the ten years prior to founding the firm in the summer of 2010, Enrique has dedicated his career to finding the crossroads between public service and public relations. Before starting his small business, Enrique served as Director of Government Relations and Strategic Alliances for the nation's leading cause-related marketing agency, Interlex Communications. In his time there, Enrique led a thriving public affairs division that successfully created support infrastructures of elected officials, government agencies and nonprofit groups for groundbreaking cause-related programs and public-private partnerships led by Interlex's anchor clientele. With a professional foundation in leading the operational, programmatic and marketing aspects of national nonprofits, Enrique also served as the agency’s expert in strategically handling philanthropic investments for important client initiatives and creating signature cause-related programs aimed at bridging disparities in anything from entrepreneurial growth to human rights. Prior to Interlex, Enrique was an Associate at the prestigious Washington, DC-based Ibarra Strategy Group, where he pioneered what is now the most prominent and celebrated leadership gathering in the country in Hispanic influencer circles, the Latino Leadership Network. He also served as program director at the New America Alliance, where he worked intimately with the nation’s most respected and revered Hispanic leaders on issues never before addressed in the modern day civil rights movement, including increasing Hispanics on corporate boards and inclusiveness of private equity, angel investment and pension fund investments among Hispanic businesses. In each of his former positions, Enrique has implemented numerous scholarship and internship programs demonstrating his commitment to developing human capital for the benefit of the American Latino community. Enrique is a proud graduate of the University of Texas at Austin earning a BA in History.
Amilcar Guzman, Programs Coordinator
Amilcar is a second year Master's student in the Higher Education Program at the University of Maryland College Park. He currently serves as a Graduate Assistant for the America Reads*America counts program. Prior to studying at Maryland, Amilcar served as a Research and Policy Associate at the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) in Washington, DC. Through research, legislative analysis and youth programming he worked to ensure that students in the GEAR UP program across the country had the resources necessary to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. Prior to his work at NCCEP, Amilcar completed his fellowship at the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans and in the Office of Congressman Fattah. Amilcar graduated Cum Laude in May 2008 with a BA in Sociology and Psychology from Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In his free time he enjoys reading, spending time with family and friends and volunteering in the Washington, DC area.
Jason Llorenz, Legal Liaison
Jason serves as Executive Director of the Hispanic Technology and Telecommunications Partnership (HTTP), a coalition of more than twenty national and regional Hispanic-serving organizations working to increase awareness of the impact of technology and telecommunications policy on the U.S. Hispanic community. Previously, Jason served as senior policy advisor to the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL), the nonpartisan membership organization representing the interests of over 300 Hispanic state legislators across the 50 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. At NHCSL, Jason was instrumental in the establishment of the Broadband en Accion Taskforce, which has positioned NHCSL as one of the Hispanic community's leading voices on broadband policy. Since 2006, Jason has managed a legal and consulting practice that serves clients including start-ups, small business and strategic partnerships in New York and Washington, D.C. This was preceded by service as chief of staff to the Caraway Group, Inc., a two-decade old Washington, D.C.-based strategic communications agency. As a part of the firm's public affairs practice, Jason worked with notable clients in the technology, financial services, and hospitality sectors. Jason began his career as a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Law Fellow, through which he clerked for Judge Richard W. Roberts, United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Originally from Brooklyn, New York City, Jason received his BA in Social Sciences from Cazenovia College and JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. He is admitted to the New York State and Washington, DC bars and is a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association. He serves on the boards of the Washington Internship Institute, Inc. and La Cooperativa of Washington, D.C. He is also a legal advisor to the Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center at Columbia University, New York City.
