Viviana Green

Viviana Green

2015 Ricardo Salinas Scholar, Ricardo Salinas Scholarship

Viviana Green (Washington, DC) leads the Affiliate Member Services (AMS) arm of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.

Viviana Green (Washington, DC) leads the Affiliate Member Services (AMS) arm of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. In this role she oversees AMS operations, as well as regional teams who manage NCLR’s relationships with nearly 300 community-based organizations (Affiliates) providing services to the Latino community across the United States. This involves working closely with NCLR’s program and policy staff to implement strategies that support NCLR’s mission and align NCLR’s national, state and local policy priorities – from immigration reform, civic engagement to economic and community development. She also organizes Affiliate events and trainings around the country that help foster collaboration and exchange of best practices between community leaders including a focus on civic engagement programs to educate Hispanic Americans about public policy issues that impact their communities and provided tools for them to engage in advocacy and better integrate into American society. Additionally, Viviana represents Affiliate matters to NCLR leadership and the member-led Affiliate Council and develops strategic partnerships between NCLR corporate partners and Affiliates. Before joining NCLR, she served as an immigration lawyer at Grossman Law, LLC, and also worked as Counsel to CEO for several years at Flamel Technologies, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company based in Lyon, France. Prior to that, she served as a Senior Project Associate at Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) where she helped implement mobilization and demobilization efforts on behalf of multi-year economic development USAID initiatives in Colombia, Croatia and Zimbabwe. She holds a Masters (LLM) of International Law from Georgetown University Law Center, and graduated with a Law Degree from the University of the Andes. Viviana is also a term member of the Council on Foreign relations and is a member of the New York Bar State Bar Association. (Attended Socrates)