Dre Chiriboga-Flor (she, her, ella) is the State Director for 9to5 Colorado, a grassroots member-based organization dedicated to fighting for womxn’s rights in and outside of the workplace. She was politicized by spending time in her mother country of Ecuador growing up, where she learned about Latin American activism. However, Dre didn’t have a word for organizing until volunteering with a labor union led by women in the Dominican Republic through the Workers’ Rights Consortium and United Students Against Sweatshops. After college, she worked at a Spanish-language immersion childcare center in Boston and organized workers to push for benefits and overtime. Dre began her work with 9to5 as a transit organizer and evolved into building the foundation for 9to5’s housing justice work. In 2016, she co-founded Colorado Homes For All, which is based on the national housing justice movement led by the Right to the City Alliance. Her leadership style is largely shaped by her experience as a Power of 50 fellow.
Dre fundamentally believes that humor has an important place in the movement, even and especially when the world is the bleakest. In her free time, she enjoys biking, playing fútbol, finding animals, painting cartoons, and traveling around the world. If she didn’t have to work and the world was free of patriarchal, ableist, homophobic, white supremacy, she would learn how to master the creation of graffiti murals and coach babies in fútbol.
“I want to build with other leaders I look up to and who have helped shape my leadership over the years to create a world grounded in the brilliance and vision of BIPOC guerrerxs.“