ALEX SÁNCHEZ

Founder | President and CEO

Alex Sánchez is the founder and now serves as the President and CEO of Voces Unidas, the first multi-entity, Latino-created and Latino-led family of nonprofit organizations based in Colorado's Western Slope.

An experienced executive and community organizer, Alex has led other nonprofits, managed his own political consulting firm, and has extensive corporate and government experience at the senior management level.

A son of Mexican immigrants, Alex grew up in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico until the age of 9. When his family moved to Colorado, Alex lived in El Jebel and attended Basalt schools in the Roaring Fork Valley. Alex is the first in his family to graduate from high school and receive college degrees from Colorado Mountain College and Colorado State University.

As a community leader, Alex volunteers and donates his time and talents to numerous causes, charities and civic institutions. Alex currently serves on the boards of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR), COLOR Action Fund and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He has previously served as a governor's appointee to the Board of Trustees of Colorado Mesa University and the Colorado Medical Board. Alex is a former Senior Fellow of the Mexican American Solidarity Foundation in Mexico City and served a 3-year term on the Consejo Consultivo for the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (CCIME), a federal agency under the Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico.

Email: alex@vocesunidas.org

Office: 970-340-8502

Assistant: assistant@vocesunidas.org

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Blog Posts: Alex Sánchez

Colorado must stand against Trump’s unchecked ICE force

Truth, we have learned, is short-lived. Facts can be fleeting. Reality is easily distorted. This is the world in which we live, the nation where the president threatens “the day of reckoning and retribution” and then proclaims innocence when it arrives with deadly certainty. Twice. Still, we have our own eyes. And the cameras are everywhere. So we know better than to believe that Alex Pretti, the man murdered by federal agents in the streets of Minneapolis last month, was a “

Opinion Editorial

Alex Sánchez

Feb 195 min read

Voces Unidas: RFSD earns a D- on new community report card

Among the many lessons public education offers are those that come not from textbooks, but from sharing the classroom with peers from every walk of life. One lesson, often learned slowly, is that we all live our own reality. Despite appearances, not everyone’s circumstances are the same. Sharing the same hallways, classrooms and cafeterias with the same students day after day, year after year, it’s easy to assume everyone’s experience is similar. We’re all “Rams,” or “Demons”

Opinion Editorial

Alex Sánchez

Oct 19, 20253 min read

When the system fails, don’t blame the families

Every so often, someone says the quiet part out loud. Recently, in response to our public actions in the Roaring Fork School District, I...

Advocacy

Alex Sánchez

Jun 13, 20253 min read