Francis Torres provides support to WOLA’s communications team. He grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and graduated from Brown University with a BA in International Relations, concentrating in Latin America. He studied abroad at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, where he also wrote for local human-rights publication RioOnWatch.
Before joining WOLA, Francis worked as an Atlantic Media Fellow at National Journal, where he helped produce policy briefs and weekly newsletters on federal economic and financial policy.