Roberta Avila

Roberta has served as a social justice advocate for 35 years. In 1998, Roberta served as the Director of the Early Head Start Program for Moore Community House. After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Roberta was the executive director for the Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force and then the Steps Coalition, which advocated for low-income residents’ recovery.

 

In 2008, she received the Mutual of America Community Partnership Award in 2011; in 2017, she received the Biloxi Branch NAACP Community Service Award. Roberta served as one of 20 coach/mentors to the 2014 inaugural class of the WK Kellogg Community Leadership Network, which focused on helping vulnerable children and their families achieve optimal health, well-being and economic security. 

 

Roberta is a racial healing practitioner and served in that role for the WK Kellogg America Healing convenings. She currently serves as a Board Officer for El Pueblo, a nonprofit that serves immigrants.