Blanca Molina is president and executive director of CEUS, and one of its founders. She was born in Morazon, El Salvador, one of 14 children. Blanca studied science education at the Universidad Nacional de El Salvador, while working with the aid organization Save the Children in El Salvador, and is a certified para-legal. She immigrated to the United States in early 1990, fleeing El Salvador’s civil war. Blanca now works part-time for CEUS and part-time as a paralegal with the American Friends Service Committee in Newark.
In 2012, Blanca’s work was honored with a Russ Berrie Making a Difference Award, one of several honors and awards she has received. In 2002, the El Diario newspaper of New York named her one of the most distinguished Latina Women, and most recently, the Salvadoran Consulate of New Jersey honored her community work in 2017. The Salvadoran Government named her as one of 100 women who make an impact on the Salvadoran community outside their home country.
She lives with her husband and two children, and they are certified foster parents with the State of New Jersey. Email: bmolina@ceusnj.org.
Ana Salgado is a legal assistant and manages the CEUS office. She grew up in El Salvador and studied medicine for three years as an undergraduate at the Universidad Nacional de El Salvador. She arrived in the U.S. in 1990 and worked in child care, retail, and the restaurant industry before joining CEUS in 2005. She has four adult children and lives with her husband.
