Ivette Alé is a grassroots organizer, LGBTQ community leader, and artist with 15 years of community organizing and advocacy experience. Her experiences growing up in Southern California as an undocumented person and as the child of an incarcerated person have informed her activism throughout her career. Most recently, she served as Statewide Coordinator for Californians United for a Responsible Budget, a statewide coalition of over 85 grassroots organizations successfully shifting state and local spending from corrections and policing to human services. As the Coordinator of the JusticeLA Coalition, her work helped secure the victory against L.A. County’s $3.5 billion jail expansion plan. When she is not fighting against prisons and jails, she organizes queer music and art spaces locally and across the country.  Ivette is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Political Science, a Women’s Policy Institute Fellow, Justice Policy Network Fellow, and a UCLA Law Fellow.