ABOUT CARLOS

Carlos Eduardo Espina is a 26-year-old nonprofit director, activist, and content creator who works to uplift the immigrant community through social media content, community organizing, and charitable causes. Carlos was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to a Uruguayan father and a Mexican mother. He immigrated with his family to Texas when he was five years old.

Since he was a teenager, Carlos has been involved in community work. In 2017, Carlos founded his first nonprofit, Football for the Future. Through this organization, Carlos and his team provided free soccer and educational camps for hundreds of low-income kids in central Texas until 2020. In 2019, Carlos founded his second nonprofit, the Detained Refugee Solidarity Fund. This nonprofit existed to morally and economically support migrants and refugees detained in ICE detention centers throughout the United States, helping thousands until 2022.

Carlos received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Vassar College in 2020 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2024. Currently, he has over 15 million followers on social media, where he posts bilingual videos informing and uplifting the Latino community in the United States. Carlos is the most followed Latino activist in the United States. Beyond making content, Carlos now spends most of his time leading the nonprofit organization "Migrantes Unidos" and his community center in Houston, Texas.