Erika Villegas

Volunteer Organizer, Interviewed 2024

Erika Villegas is a Chicago-area realtor and community leader. Erika was born and raised on the southwest side of the city and lived in Mexico for a few years as a teenager which helped her become fluent in Spanish. She established herself as one of the top residential Realtors in Chicagoland serving a wide variety of buyers and sellers.

In this clip, she describes encountering the first migrant families and quickly realizing the massive scope of the issue. She describes the initial steps she took to organize her community into what would become a robust care network that spanned multiple police districts.