Treasurer, PRCC Board of Directors
Luis Alejandro Molina has worked at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC) since he was 17. He began as a math tutor at the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School. He is currently the Treasurer of the PRCC Board of Directors. He also works with the Digital Presence Initiative (IT). Luis Alejandro has organized support for the defense of human rights and the release of the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners in the Puerto Rican communities of New York, Hartford, San Francisco, and Chicago. He is the former editor of Libertad, the official organ of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. He has served on the Advisory Board of community newspapers, such as Boricua, and La Patria Radical, and is currently the Senior Advisor of La Voz del Paseo Boricua newspaper. He has produced “Cada Guaraguao tiene su Pitirre” and “USA on Trial” parts 1 and 2 with co-producer Carla Leshne for the Campaign to Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners. He is the editor of the book “USA on Trial”, based on the San Francisco Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nationalities counter-celebrating the quincentennial, as well as a co-editor of “Letters to Karina,” a collection of letters by Oscar López Rivera, from his prison cell, to his granddaughter. As part of the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network (HITN), he served as an Executive Producer for the Emmy-winning shorts “Ramon y Irmgard” in 2024 and last year’s short on former Congressman “Luis V. Gutiérrez.” He recently resigned as President of the Board of Directors of Youth Connections Charter School (YCCS), which serves 2500 at-risk students in Chicago. Presently, he is working on the digital archives project with Board Member Dr. Ann Peterson-Kemp.
