The Latino Education Advancement Fund (LEAF) is a non-profit startup organization established in 2016 by its founder president & CEO, Dinorah Olmos.  

LEAF focused on providing Spanish-speaking Latino parents with information, knowledge, and skills to navigate their local educational systems. 

Olmos strongly believes that parent education and engagement are crucial for student achievement even more for first-generation Spanish-speaking Latino parents and students. Latino parents need more than translated documents. They need to understand how schools work, what their children are learning, their rights and responsibilities within the school system, what extracurricular programs are available, and why they are essential to reach out to those programs. 

At LEAF, we coach first-generation Spanish-speaking Latino parents and students, empowering parents to create a home atmosphere that solidifies their children’s academic and career paths. LEAF accomplishes its mission by implementing a complete Family Academic Engagement (℠) approach to develop lifelong academic success for Latino families.

In 2019, Olmos received the Open Society Institute (OSI) Community Fellowship, enabling her to expand LEAF’s programs and offer workshops to different schools.

LEAF is headquartered in Baltimore, MD, and offers programs and services in different geographical areas, including Los Angeles, CA., Puerto Rico, and Maryland.