Roksana Man
has been organizing with since 2003, when members of her family and community were detained and deported through . Since then, Roksana has been a youth organizer, organizing working-class, immigrant Desi youth in New York City public high schools, fighting to end the school-to-prison/deportation and low-wage-jobs pipelines. She later served as DRUM鈥檚 director of strategy and training, leading racial, immigrant, and education justice campaigns, and the political education and organizing trainings of organizers, leaders, and DRUM members. From 2016鈥�2022, Roksana served as a board member of United We Dream, and currently sits on the advisory board of the Immigrant Justice Network. Roksana is the national co-director of , which she leads with the firm belief that it is the responsibility of our movements to center the leadership of impacted, frontline communities to direct and lead change. Roksana is a Bangladeshi-born immigrant raised in New York City, and the proud daughter of a domestic worker and a taxi driver.
