About me
Winter Snitz-Meza is a national LGBTQ+ and first-generation Latinx American civil rights leader and upcoming author. The founder of LATINXRISING, a Social Impact consultancy – he is the Project Manager of WorldPride Washington, D.C. 2025's Human Rights Conference, and past producer of Latinx Pride at the Kennedy Center.
Winter served as National Political Director of Latino Victory Fund (PAC), Project, and Foundation in Washington, D.C., founded by actress Eva Longoria. He has been the Acting Director of Policy and Legislation at LULAC (the League of United Latin American Citizens) – the first and largest U.S. Latinx civil rights organization. And worked for former Obama U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, ranking Members in the Arizona House of Representatives during historic passage of the ACA, and with the largest municipal human rights agency in the country during Black Lives Matter. He deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to rehabilitate and reunify thousands of Unaccompanied Children (the infamous "kids in cages") during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Winter was born in Mexico, came of age as a DREAMer, and became a U.S. citizen the same week he he became the first in his immediate and extended families to graduate university – immediately cutting his teeth as a political operative in campaigns for LGBTQ+ candidates.
He studied International Relations and Spanish at Gonzaga University (Washington state) and Universidad de Granada (Spain), and is fluent in English and in Spanish.
Winter also attended the Stella Adler Art of Acting School Professional Conservatory in Los Angeles. He wrote, produced, and directed the play Cuahtémoc: Fall of An Empire, based on the true historical accounts of the 1519 clash of civilizations in present-day Mexico City, and the fall of the last Aztec emperor. When not producing, you can find him at a cute café, at the gym, his head in a book, meditating, bopping to music, at one of his favorite restaurants, or swimming.
Follow him @wintersnitzmeza.
