Cynthia Pompa is a proud native to the borderlands who grew up on both side of the border in El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juarez. She is the Advocacy Coordinator at the ACLU Border Rights Center in El Paso. In this role, she works to develop and coordinate advocacy and organizing strategies among the four ACLU southwest border affiliates, CA, AZ, NM and TX, and the ACLU national office. Cynthia spent over three years as a field organizer in Southern New Mexico with the ACLU of NM, where she led border-wide abuse documentation campaigns, and played a key role in coalitions efforts to resist the militarization of the U.S./Mexico border.