Cecilia Muñoz

Cecilia Muñoz is a Senior Advisor at New America, which she joined in 2017 to build a team on public interest technology. Previously, she served on President Barack Obama’s senior staff as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and then as Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Muñoz was Senior Vice President at the National Council of La Raza (now UNIDOS US), the nation’s largest Hispanic policy and advocacy organization, where she led a policy team and collaborated with a broad range of constituency groups. Muñoz is a Senior Fellow at Results for America, a nonprofit that advances the use of data and evidence in policymaking. She also advises the Open Society and JPB Foundations, is a trustee of the Kresge and Joyce Foundations and serves on a number of nonprofit boards. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000.

Muñoz was elected to the Board in 2019. She is a member of the Budget and Compensation Committee and the Institutional Policy Committee.