Mich P. González

Associate Executive Director | él/he/they

Mich leads with compassion to uplift the strategic vision and mission of Freedom for Immigrants in his work to advance the struggle to abolish oppressive institutions that perpetuate violence and replace them with social supports that help communities thrive.

Mich conspires and works with FFI’s community partners and internal team to grow and strengthen the intersectional abolitionist movement that centers, heals, and empowers Black, Indigenous, and other people of color directly impacted by the immigration and criminal legal systems, beginning with FFI’s Executive Director, Laura Hernandez. As Associate Executive Director, Mich supports the programmatic work of FFI’s policy, communications, monitoring, and decarceration teams. 

Mich is a proud transgender Latino raised by a single teen mom and her queer immigrant family who overcame poverty and housing instability in South Florida, providing Mich the opportunity to become a first-generation university and law school graduate. 

Mich brings to FFI over a decade of experience advocating alongside immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, youth of color, and other criminalized communities. Mich has supported hundreds of people to regain their freedom, reunite with loved ones, and find safety. More importantly, he has learned from Black and brown youth, elders, mothers, queer and trans people of the global majority who were subjected to government-sanctioned cages across the United States about the true meaning of resilience, dignity, and collective liberation. 

To ease his existential dread and refill his cup with joy, Mich moonlights as a storytelling comedian in New Orleans where he lives with his chosen family and extended community. Together they share in meals, laughter, music, dancing, plant-nurturing, art-making, learning, growing, and loving up on their adopted animals — Mochi, Miso, Blaze, Papi, Diesel, Titus, Mazie, Baby, and Mr. Beans.