50 Most Influential Latinos

Adelina Nicholls

Executive Director

Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights

Since 2000, Adelina Nicholls has overseen, coordinated, and carried out the efforts to develop grassroots leaders and organizations within Georgia’s Latino immigrant communities in order to defend and advance Latinos’ civil and human rights at the Coordinating Council of Community Leaders. Originally from Mexico City, Adelina studied sociology at the Autonomous National University of México (UNAM), where she later taught courses in sociology, social theory, social research techniques, and methodology in the Political and Social Science College.

To this date (2018) Adelina has dedicated to facilitate the creation of Comites Populares around the state and developed within a collective leadership among immigrants in the state of Georgia in the struggle for Human Rights, and since 2007 Adelina has continued her organizing efforts as the Executive Director of the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights.

Adelina has received recognition as well as a number of awards for her work in community organizing and human rights, including the MALDEF Award Community Service (2001), the ACLU Georgia Civil and Human Rights Award (2008), Mundo Hispánico’s Best Organization of the Year (2013), and a National recognition on 2015 with the U.S. Human Rights Movement Builders Award, in (2016) she received the “Daniel Levi Award” National distinction from the National Immigration Project (National Lawyers Guild) . In (2018) she has received the WAND National Community Legacy Award for one of Georgia’s most effective community organizers focused on leadership development in Latino communities, and (2018) she was recognized by the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce among the 50 more influential persons in Georgia.