Urban Upbound
Liliana Estrella has extensive experience in payroll and tax preparation, currently serving as a Payroll and Administrative Assistant at Metro Tax Group since June 2017, where responsibilities include managing payroll for 13 companies with a total of 105 employees. Concurrently, since January 2015, Liliana works as a Site Coordinator Tax Preparer at Urban Upbound, overseeing the accuracy of client tax returns and providing Spanish interpretation services when needed. Additionally, from June 2017 to November 2018, Liliana held the role of Accounting Assistant/Tax Preparer/Payroll at MetroTax Group. Education has been pursued at Hunter College and LaGuardia Community College from 1994 to the present.
Urban Upbound
Urban Upbound’s mission is to provide public housing residents with a comprehensive group of accessible, vital, and impactful services to tackle poverty and change lives. We work with the more than 30,000 individuals living in four Western Queens public housing neighborhoods – Queensbridge (the largest public housing community in the nation), Astoria, Woodside, and Ravenswood. Urban Upbound serves clients through four comprehensive programs: 1.) Workforce Development: providing soft skills job readiness training and one-on-one career counseling, as well as job placement and retention assistance for the unemployed and underemployed. 2.) Financial Fitness Program: providing a suite of financial empowerment services including one-on-one crisis and short-term counseling, one-on-one long-term asset building counseling, community-based financial educational workshops, free tax preparation and comprehensive public benefits screening and enrollment. 3.) Youth Development/College Access: Urban Upbound’s youth services include in-depth SAT, college preparation, and college retention services. 4.) Community Revitalization: Urban Upbound ensures public housing neighborhoods have access to community assets such as mainstream financial services through the Urban Upbound Federal Credit Union, opened in 2010, the Urban Upbound FCU is the first low-income designated credit union in Queens ever.