About Verónica

Verónica against a red brick wall. She has long, dark, wavy hair, red lipstick, and is wearing a blue shirt and colorful scarf.Verónica Bayetti Flores is a New York City based, writer, consultant, policy wonk, and cultural critic.

She has led national policy and movement building work at the intersections of immigrants’ rights, health care access, police accountability, and LGBTQ liberation. As a writer, Verónica has written extensively about race, immigration, gender, and music. She is a co-creator and co-host of Latinx music podcast Radio Menea, and is a co-founder and Managing Partner at the Center for Advancing Innovative Policy.

As a consultant, Verónica has supported new political campaigns, developed intersectional messaging, worked with spokespeople to develop Op-Eds, trained groups on successful media appearances, and worked with clients to develop and give issue-based training.

Verónica holds a Masters’ in Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is currently Co-President of the Board of Directors of the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Follow her on twitter @veroconplatanos