Max (he, el) is a Queer, cis-gender, gay man born in Acapulco, Mexico and now living in occupied Algonquin lands called, Connecticut in the colonized United States of America. Max started his community activism after being diagnosed with HIV in 2012. After five years working at an AIDS Service Organization, he moved on to working at Open Door Shelter, in Norwalk, Connecticut. At that space he noticed how undocumented LGBTQ+ people were treated and felt compelled to bring change to that community. The Covid pandemic struck just two weeks after being hired as the inaugural Latinx Program Officer for the New Haven Pride Center, which complicated the organizing work. Since that time he’s managed to provide gender affirming advocacy, popular education campaigns and community healing programming for undocumented LGBTQ+ people in Connecticut and beyond. In 2020, Max partnered up with Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement to support the management of Connecticut Familia with other Queer and Trans Undocumented people of color in Connecticut. Max is currently working with Familia:TQLM as a national Organizer in Border Butterflies Project, which is a cross border initiative in collaboration with Transgender Law Center. With BBP Max aims to mobilize queer asylum seekers and LGBTQ+ immigrants to create leadership development spaces where we can all grow and where they can finally choose their own future.