Alexie Torres
Alexie Torres, executive director of Access Strategies Fund, has spent 30 years as activist, community organizer, philanthropy leader, and urban planner in low income communities of color.
Her work has been dedicated to the intersection of spirituality, economic, environmental and racial justice. She founded Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice in Bronx, NY, the Bronx River Alliance, the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance, and most recently, the Center For the Soul of the Movement to support healing and spirituality within social movements. Torres’s awards include the 2008 Rockefeller Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism, the Caritas Medal from the Vincentian Society, and the Servitor Pacis award from the Permanent Observer Mission of the Vatican to the UN. In 2009, Utne Reader named her one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” President Obama appointed her an advisor on the White House Council of Faith and Neighborhood Partnerships in 2015.