Manos Unidas - Joined Hands Four Corners

Manos Unidas - Joined Hands Four Corners Community organizing and mutual aid with dignity, respect for our neighbors.

09/02/2026

Un mensaje de nuestro director ejecutivo/A message from our Executive Director
Hoy tengo una noticia muy personal y muy difĂ­cil que compartir con nuestra comunidad inmigrante del suroeste de Colorado.
Después de ocho años con Compañeros, el 30 de septiembre será oficialmente mi último día como Director Ejecutivo.
Antes de irme, necesitaba escribirles directamente a las familias y personas inmigrantes que confiaron en mí durante estos años.
Gracias por permitirme conocer sus historias, sus familias, sus luchas, sus sueños y sus vidas. Gracias por confiar en mí para acompañarlos y abogar junto a ustedes.

La verdad es que ustedes son una gran parte de la razón por la que hoy puedo dar este próximo paso en mi vida. Mucho de lo que sé sobre liderazgo, comunidad y justicia lo aprendí de ustedes.

Voy a extrañar muchísimo estar en comunidad con ustedes todos los días.

EscribĂ­ una carta para tratar de expresar todo lo que esta comunidad ha significado para mĂ­. Espero que puedan leerla:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16PrVdqfBjmm-wayL2zx6-Nyu3CSHOCeZdFVbk39a9gk/edit?usp=sharing

Gracias por confiar en mí y por darme uno de los mayores honores de mi vida: servir y ser parte de esta comunidad durante estos ocho años.

La lucha continúa. ❤️

Con todo mi amor, respeto y gratitud,
Enrique
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After 10 years of calling Southwest Colorado home and eight years with Compañeros, I have some bittersweet news to share.
On September 30, I will officially step down from my role as Executive Director of Compañeros: Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center.
It is hard to summarize what these past eight years, and this community, have meant to me in a social media post. Compañeros changed the direction of my life. It gave me a community, a movement to be part of, and the opportunity to grow into a leader I never imagined I would become.
At the same time, I am excited to share that I have accepted the position of Executive Director with First Friends of New Jersey and New York. I will continue working alongside immigrant communities and people impacted by our immigration detention system, while also returning to the NYC Metro area where I grew up and where my roots are.
There is so much I want to say to the families, staff, volunteers, rapid responders, partners, funders, friends, and community members who have been part of these eight years. So rather than trying to fit it all here, I wrote a letter to the community.
I hope you'll take a few minutes to read it:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jAhdiRDsI5mkVOQ5lWf8RAS19L0cXI4Z3jn5eiy-HnQ/edit?usp=sharing

I leave this role with an enormous amount of gratitude and with confidence in the incredible team and community that will carry Compañeros forward.
Southwest Colorado became my home, and no matter where this next chapter takes me, I will carry this place and everything you all have taught me with me.
This isn't goodbye. It is simply my turn to carry what Southwest Colorado has taught me somewhere new.

La lucha continúa. ❤️

Con mucho amor y gratitud
Enrique

08/28/2026
06/23/2026
05/28/2026

In Cortez yesterday. Thanks to our Rapid Responders that recorded this abduction.

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Cortez, CO
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