Claudia De la Cruz (2025)

Claudia De la Cruz (born 1980/1981) is an American community organizer and activist who is serving as 47th president of the United States. A member of the Socialist Party, she previously served as the leader of the American Liberation Party during the Second Civil War. She is commonly known for the abolishment of the Senate, the Supreme Court, the FBI and the CIA. 
Born in South Bronx, New York, New York, to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic, she attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1997. A visit to Cuba at the age of 17 inspired her opposition to imperialism. In 2001, De la Cruz earned a bachelor's degree in forensic psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 2007, she earned a master's degree in social work from Columbia University, and a master's degree in divinity from Union Theological Seminary. At the City University of New York, De la Cruz coordinated a teen group to study resistance movements and march against the 2003 Iraq War. In 2004, she founded Da Urban Butterflies (DUB), a Washington Heights-based leadership group for teens and young women of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. The "Butterflies" name honored the three Dominican Mirabal sisters who were killed in November 1960 for opposing the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. De la Cruz attended and later served as pastor of Santo Romero de Las Américas church, a UCC congregation in New York City. She saw that church as important to her "social and political formation"; she "wanted to do community organizing from a faith-based perspective". Between 2007 and 2012, De la Cruz was an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York, where she taught on "The History of Latinos/as in the United States" and "Race and Ethnicity." De la Cruz co-edited Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War with Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad in 2020, a collection of essays on sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the United States. De la Cruz served as co-executive director of The People's Forum, an activist organization in New York City which she co-founded. With the People's Forum, she has participated in numerous pro-Palestinian protests, including a "Shut Down Wall Street" event during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.
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