Viviana López-Green
Viviana López Green serves as the senior director of the Latino Knowledge Lab at UnidosUS. Drawing on the organization’s longstanding and extent work in this area, her efforts aim to elevate Latino contributions in U.S. history curricula, academia, media, arts and culture. She works to strengthen the institutions and allies required to deploy and sustain systemic and simultaneous interventions at all levels, with a focus on both policy changes and the infrastructure needed to amplify the roles of academia, the arts, media and pop culture, as well as UnidosUS’s network of community-based Affiliates.
Viviana has co-authored the position paper “Toward a More Perfect Union: Understanding Systemic Racism and Resulting Inequity in Latino Communities” and moderated the virtual town hall, “Understanding Systemic Racism & Resulting Inequity in Latino Communities.” Her efforts focus on documenting and educating the general public on how Hispanics are adversely affected by structural inequities, and on executing a narrative change campaign to ensure Latino perspectives and contributions are recognized through communications campaigns centered around events, alliances and publications.
She co-authored the report “Analyzing Inclusion of Latino Contributions in U.S. History Curricula for High School” with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, which explores the lack of Latino representation in select U.S. history textbooks. With the Berkeley Media Studies Group, Viviana developed a report focused on “Elevating Latino Experiences and Voices in News about Racial Equity,” which includes both findings and recommendations for improving coverage. She also prepared the 2021 report, “Special Advance Fact Sheet: Deaths of People of Color by Law Enforcement Are Severely Under-Counted.”
As part of the narrative initiative, Viviana designs and leads ongoing roundtable conversations among scholars, media experts and leaders in the arts and culture sector, to discuss ways to promote Latino history and perspectives. She also served as the UnidosUS the liaison to the Smithsonian Latino Center in curating content for Molina Family Latino Gallery, the first permanent exhibit on the National Mall celebrating the U.S. Latino experience, including creating an in-gallery digital media element titled, “Mapping the U.S. Latino Experience.”
Previously, from 2011-2020, she served as senior director of Affiliate engagement at UnidosUS, where she managed relationships with nearly 300 community-based organizations. She worked closely with UnidosUS’s policy and program staff to provide non-profit management capacity building and to implement state and local strategies. She also helped connect corporate and foundation partners in their work with local Latino communities.
She holds a master’s in international laws from Georgetown University Law Center and a law degree from the University of the Andes. She is a member of the New York Bar Association. She is a Board Member of the Partnership for a Healthier America and is active in community service in the Washington, D.C., area, including Mary’s Center and the Salvation Army’s Grate Patrol.