Belen Bonilla is the communications and campaign senior manager, The 75 Million Project, which is co-led by the National Partnership for Women & Families. She coordinates the campaign’s communication and engagement strategies to reaffirm that gender equity and women’s progress are essential for America’s economic prosperity.
Prior to joining National Partnership, Belen served as a strategic engagement associate at PRRI, where she executed digital communication strategies and events to disseminate research at the intersection of religion, culture, and politics. Previously, she worked as a legal assistant on the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, providing programmatic and operational support to legal advocacy efforts challenging racial discrimination in public education, housing, fair lending, and the criminal legal system. Before joining the ACLU, she served as a program associate on the International Advocacy and Litigation team at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, where she organized high-level convenings and executed multifaceted advocacy strategies alongside human rights lawyers and activists working to protect democracy and promote social inclusion globally.
Belen received her BA in International Studies from American University and is currently completing her MA in Communications at Johns Hopkins University. She was born and raised in San Antonio, TX and lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two dogs.
