Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez is a second-generation Colombian-American and organizer with Queens Neighborhoods United / Barrios Unidos de Queens. QNU is a community-based organization made up of residents and workers of Jackson Heights, Corona, and Elmhurst. QNU believes in establishing community control over land-use, policing, and immigration policies that directly impact us, our families, homes, businesses, places of work, and neighborhoods. Through grassroots organizing, leadership development, advocacy, and community education, QNU builds power to fight criminalization and displacement in our communities." cmurcek@gmail.com.