Emmy-nominated MSNBC contributor María Teresa Kumar is the co-founder President and CEO of Voto Latino. Since 2004, Kumar has raised more than $75 million to grow Voto Latino into the U.S.’s largest Latinx voter registration and advocacy organization, directly registering more than 1.4 million voters. In 2020, under her direction, Voto Latino registered 651,330 new voters 82% of who voted and mobilized 3.7 million low propensity voters leading into the 2020 election. In June 2020 alone, Kumar’s Voto Latino registered more than 100,000 voters.
With advertisers spending nearly $10 billion to reach the nation’s 64 million Hispanic consumers, whose median age is just 29.5 compared to 40.6 for non- Hispanics, Kumar’s pioneering use of technology, social media and celebrity to inspire transformative change in younger audiences led Fast Company to name
her one of the most creative minds in global business and Elle to name her one of the 10 most influential women in Washington.