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Congratulations to Alexandra Sossa on becoming the Executive Director of the Farmworker & Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP)—an organization dedicated to improving working conditions for Illinois' migrant and seasonal agricultural workers. 

Alexandra SossaAlexandra is a native of Colombia and was the emerging leader representing FLAP at TCLI’s Illinois Latino Nonprofit Leadership Academy.

If you want to be effective, it’s really important to develop your leadership capacity.  Thanks to TCLI, I readily and confidently stepped into the Executive Director role."

Way to go, Alexandra!

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