Francisco was born to Mexican immigrants in upstate New York and spent his adolescence in Minnesota, but calls Brooklyn, New York, home. He studied social policy (especially as it was practiced by the Latin American “Pink Tide”) and egalitarian theory at Yale University. Upon graduation, he found himself in Cape Town, South Africa, teaching himself Portuguese while researching the anti-poverty programs of Mozambique. A passionate democratic socialist, he worked for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for president, first as an organizer, then as a national Latino outreach strategist. Somehow, after all of that, he became TED Conferences’ curation researcher. Last summer, Francisco conducted strategic research for the New Jersey state office of the Communications Workers of America, supporting their organizing efforts and legislative advocacy work. After the Woo, he hopes to aid working-class movements for justice in all its forms.