Sandra Del Toro

Project Director (773) 471-8208 ext 13 sandra.deltoro@gmail.com

Sandra Del Toro, is the Project Director of the Elev8 Initiative at SWOP in partership with Marquette School. Prior to joining SWOP, she served for four years as an organizer on statewide issue campaigns at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights where she successfully oversaw legislative initiatives. While at ICIRR she worked with a coalition of groups to develop permanent state funding for immigrant service programs and led the effort to pass legislation permitting immigrant students access to in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Illinois was the sixth state in the nation to pass similar legislation. Sandra received her BA from Stanford University and her Masters degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. The daughter of immigrants from Jalisco, Mexico, Sandra was born and raised in South Chicago.