International Affairs Team

Ana María Archila is the Commissioner at the NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs. For more than two decades, she has been a leader in New York and nationally in the fight for immigrant rights, worker justice, LGBTQ rights, and women’s rights. 

Born in Colombia, Ana María immigrated to the US at the age of 17. She co-founded and led several grassroots progressive organizations, including Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy, and has dedicated her life to fighting for the rights and dignity of working people - Black, Latino, Asian, white, immigrant and native born.

In New York, she fought for years so that every young person would be able to access high-quality education--helping lead campaigns to fully fund public schools, create school-based college access programs, and pass the New York Dream Act. She was also deeply involved in the fights for paid sick days, raising the minimum wage, and a range of other economic and racial justice campaigns. In New York and nationally, she has been a leader in the fight for humane immigration reform. 

She ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 2022 earning more than 200,000 New Yorkers in the Democratic primary. 

Prior to assuming the role of Commissioner, she served as co-Director of the New York Working Families Party, where she helped win a historic streak of electoral victories, including electing progressive mayors in four of the largest cities in the state, including New York City.