Prior to serving as the Senior Program Associate of the Applied Research Center, Alfredo De Avila has been a farmworker and community organizer, newspaper manager, radio show host, a community organizer trainer and campaign consultant. He has worked with communities of color across the country, working on issues of employment, education, health, environment, housing, transportation and immigration.

Through ARC, he provides social justice training and consultation services to various organizations.  Specifically, he helps organizations with problem solving, goal-setting and strategic planning.  He coaches executive directors and campaign-organizing directors with program implementation and campaign development.   

He develops training tools for community leaders to conduct education programs for their constituency, which are use in small group session conducted in member’s homes, in community meetings, that use video to bring the issue to the participants.