Karla Monterroso creates tools and coalitions that support power building for Black and Latinx leadership through a variety of industries both nonprofit and for-profit.

Having been a leader within rapidly scaling social enterprises for more than 20 years, Karla believes multiracial institution-building is necessary to both realize and advance a functional and just democracy. Her experience also points to the sobering reality that the strategies to develop and govern multiracial institutions at scale are inadequate for this outcome to be realized, given they are generally derived from best practices and management theories that promote and sustain a homogenous white male supremacy culture. 

Karla most recently served as the CEO of Code2040 – an organization committed to dismantling the structural barriers to entry, retention, and promotion of Black and Latinx people in tech - she grew their community from 25 to 6,000 people. Before joining Code2040, Karla built the tools and ran the systems that supported the scale of healthcare non-profit, Health Leads, which has worked to connect communities to essential health resources like food, heat and housing for more than two decades. Prior to this, she managed the creation and implementation of a new technological infrastructure at College Summit – a national organization providing college access to low-income communities - where she also grew the volunteer operations from 300 to 1,000 people. Each organization pulled together broad coalitions to create infrastructure to support underinvested and underestimated families and young people.