Tony Solís is a first-generation DACAmented student who graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina. After Davidson, Tony served as a Teach for America corps member and was a mathematics teacher in the Washington, D.C. area. He later joined the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). While at MALDEF, Tony led redistricting efforts across the Eastern region in states ranging from Rhode Island to Florida. Prior to joining the SPIA community, Tony also worked for a Los Angeles based startup; there, he filmed courses in Spanish and mathematics to be distributed to classrooms across the country. In his free time, Tony serves as the treasurer of his neighborhood association and enjoys being a semi-consistent runner, a paper quiller, and a jazz drummer.