Mayra Aldás-Deckert

Mayra leads the campaign work and coalition building at Riders Alliance. She has been a strong advocate for immigrant communities for years. Before joining Riders Alliance, Mayra was the Director of Community Engagement at the New York Immigration Coalition, where she managed numerous initiatives, implemented outreach strategies to engage New York City’s diverse communities, and served as the main coordinator of the NYIC’s Key to the City Initiative.

She is a graduate of Brooklyn College with a B.S. in Business Management and Finance. In Ambato, she completed three years of Commercial Engineering with a focus in Management and Business Planning at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. A native of Ecuador, she moved to New York City with her family in 2005. Mayra serves on the Board of Directors of Mixteca. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.