Our Pillars

AMEXCAN’s work is organized around the areas where our comunidad needs support most—Advocacy, Culture, Health, Education, Leadership, and Binational Programs. Each pillar reflects a practical commitment: deliver services, build opportunity, and strengthen long-term community power across North Carolina and beyond.
Programs grounded in real-life needs.

Advocacy and Civic Engagement

We protect and amplify our comunidad’s voice through trusted information, community organizing, and civic participation. From navigating public systems to engaging local decision-makers, we help families understand their rights, access resources, and build collective power so policies and services reflect our lived reality.

Health

AMEXCAN advances health access through outreach, education, and direct support that meets families where they are. We connect community members to clinics, preventive care, and essential services, reduce language and system barriers, and create pathways to healthier outcomes through culturally grounded programs and partnerships.

Education

We expand educational opportunity by supporting students and families with guidance, resources, and clear pathways forward. From school navigation and enrollment support to college readiness and advising, AMEXCAN helps remove barriers, strengthen confidence, and ensure families can make informed choices for long-term success.

Art and Culture

Culture is not decoration—it’s community infrastructure. AMEXCAN celebrates and preserves Mexican and Latino identity through events, arts programming, and cultural education that builds pride and belonging. We create spaces for expression across generations and strengthen community ties through shared traditions and storytelling.

AMEXCAN Mexico

AMEXCAN México strengthens cross-border connection through binational support, communication, and coordination for families with ties on both sides. We help navigate documentation needs, connect community members to trusted resources, and build partnerships that reinforce dignity, opportunity, and family unity across borders.

Leadership

Leadership is how we sustain progress. AMEXCAN develops community leaders through training, mentorship, and opportunities to serve. We invest in people who can organize, advocate, and lead with integrity—so our community is represented in the spaces where decisions are made and solutions are shaped.

Many of our neighbors navigate health, legal, and school systems in a language that is not their own. My work is to turn complicated information into clear options, and to do it with warmth. When people leave our events feeling informed and less afraid, I know we are doing something right.
Maria Camila Vera Cepeda
Health and Economic Development Coordinator
Reunifying families after twenty years apart is hard, detailed work—paperwork, appointments, logistics—but behind every form there is a story of love and survival. Watching parents embrace their children again reminds me why binational organizing matters and why every small step in the process counts.
Maria Elizabeth Medina-Kremer
Co-Executive Director
What moves me about AMEXCAN is how we refuse to choose between roots and future. We honor our traditions, language, and culture while building real pathways to education, health, and civic power. My work is to help families feel that North Carolina is home without ever losing who they are.
Rodrigo Efraín Hernández Hebrard
Binational Director of Communication and Public Relations
When a parent understands their rights at school or a farmworker gets connected to care, that moment changes more than one life. It sends a message that our community matters. I see leadership not as a position, but as the daily practice of standing up for each other.
Rodolfo Martinez Barron
Director of Advocacy & Civic Leadership
Every program we run starts with a simple question: what would make life more dignified for our community right now? From health clinics to voter outreach to binational work in Mexico, my job is to listen, remove barriers, and make sure people feel seen, respected, and accompanied.
Bianca Samantha Perez
Director of Community and Cultural Affairs