63 Magazine - Issue 4

Organizer Spotlight:
Angel Montes
“I want to leave it all here. I don’t want
to go back wherever I go thinking that I
could have done more. I want to work as
hard as I can, make as many calls as I have
to make, build our volunteer base as large
as we have to make it and then I’ll feel like I
accomplished what I needed to do here.”
Organizer Angel Montes will certainly be
able to wake up on November 9th knowing
he did everything he could to elect Hillary
Clinton as the 45th President of the United
States. On June 14th of this year, Angel
began working as an organizer for the
Wisconsin Democratic Party and since then,
he’s empowered volunteers throughout
Stevens Point, creating a broad organization
of leaders working to elect Democrats up
and down the ticket.
His vast experience empowering individuals
has proved essential as he organizes central
Wisconsin, but his passion to elect Hillary is
even more indispensable.
Born in Santa Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico, Angel
and his family came to the United States as
undocumented immigrants when he was
four years old. Watching Donald Trump’s
negative rhetoric towards undocumented
immigrants—people like Angel’s family who
came to the U.S. looking for a better life—
Angel realized he needed to act.
When Trump says that Mexicans are rapists
and murderers, Angel thinks of how hard
he and his family worked to gain their
citizenship, of how hard they worked to
create a better future for themselves.
When he started, Angel was new to
Wisconsin and new to political organizing.
Before accepting the job and leaving Oregon
to move across the country, Angel worked
for 15 years at the American Red Cross
recruiting volunteers to lead blood drives.