Olivia Soledad is a policy program associate in the Office of Race and Equity Research at the Urban Institute, where she manages a portfolio of projects focused on supporting local government officials, practitioners, and community-based organizations to advance equity-focused policy initiatives and strategies.

Before joining Urban, Soledad worked at the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, where she coordinated the institute's day-to-day operations and executed programming and events to bring together leading US and Mexican public servants and policymakers, business leaders, and scholars. While at the Wilson Center, she cofounded and led a cross-cutting initiative on gender-based violence called Accessing Justice: Femicide and the Rule of Law in Latin America. Before joining the Wilson Center, Soledad completed field work in Mexico, where she studied migration patterns from Central America. Originally from Mexico, she previously worked at the City of Boston’s Office for Immigrant Advancement and at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations in Geneva. Soledad received BAs in psychology and international relations from Boston University with concentrations in the Middle East and international systems and world order.