Brent Ashley Wilkes is the current National Executive Director of the League of United Latin American Citizens

League of United Latin American Citizens

The League of United Latin American Citizens was created to combat the discrimination that Hispanics face in the United States. Established February 17, 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas, LULAC was a consolidation of smaller, like-minded civil rights groups already in existence...

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Personal life

Brent Ashley Wilkes graduated from Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 in Hanover, NH. Currently he lives in Virginia with his wife Angela Cross Wilkes and his two sons.

Professional career

As the Executive Director of the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States, Wilkes works towards fulfilling the LULAC mission: "to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health, housing and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United States."

Currently he is advocating for more Latino

Latino

The demonyms Latino and Latina , are defined in English language dictionaries as:* "a person of Latin-American descent."* "A Latin American."* "A person of Hispanic, especially Latin-American, descent, often one living in the United States."...

 appointments to the Obama Administration.