Emerita Torres

Emerita Torres (or Emérita Torres

Career Torres was a diplomat in the United States Department of State, working in Brazil, Pakistan, Colombia, Washington, DC, and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, among others. She worked on a variety of issues, including economic development, human rights, racial justice, and labor rights for ten years before resigning to work on similar policy matters in New York.

Torres worked at The Soufan Center after returning to New York. In this position she advocated for low-income New Yorkers and developed policy on affordable housing, transit justice, and economics.