Francisca Porchas is Lead Coordinator for the Transit Riders for Public Transportation. She is a NSSO graduate of the class of 2003. She was born in Sonora, Mexico, immigrated to the US with her family, and grew up in Phoenix. She graduated from Arizona State University where she helped organize student support for the Pictsweet Mushrooms Campaign. She coordinates 19 groups across the country on a program of demands that attempts to bring civil rights and environmental justice priorities to the $500 billion dollar federal surface transportation act. She has been a community organizer for over ten years and also helps co-lead the Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign that fights for a first class bus system in Los Angeles, the auto capital of the world. She is bilingual in Spanish.