Born and raised in Ohio, Lynn Tramonte has three decades of experience in strategic communications, primarily working for nonprofit immigration organizations at the national, state, and local levels. She has written and published everything from hashtags to books, and coached others to bring their words to life. 

Lynn started the Ohio Immigrant Alliance in 2007 under a different name, after returning to Ohio from Washington, DC. OIA is an anti-racist organization that brings together immigrants and allies working to make Ohio a better place for all. She is the organization’s primary strategist, capacity-builder, and communicator. Lynn also leads a statewide table of immigrant rights leaders and the organization’s immigration jail monitoring and abolition work. 

During the first Trump administration, Lynn worked with Ohioans experiencing detention and deportation — and their loved ones — to expose abuses in immigration jail, file lawsuits, stop deportations, end county contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and ensure their voices were heard in the media and policy conversations. 

Lynn has been quoted and/or shaped stories in The New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Univision, Columbus Dispatch, and Ideastream Public Media, among others. She was named one of Cleveland’s “People to Know” by Cleveland Scene and “A Voice for Immigrants” by La Mega Media in 2019. Lynn received the Mauritanian Human Rights Award from the Mauritanian Network in 2023.

Lynn runs a communications firm, Anacaona, services on the Boards of the Justice Action Center and Babel Box Theater, and is a 2018 Marshall Memorial Fellow with the German Marshall Fund.