Bonifacio Aleman

Bonifacio Aleman, also known as “Flaco”, is a Lead Organizer for KFTC. He is a parent of four & grandparent. Born a revolutionary, Bonifacio brings nearly two decades of experience in community organizing & program development and a lifetime of resistance work. 

Community organizing for change that Flaco has worked on includes the Louisville Ban the Box Ordinance, the Louisville Resolution to Support Statewide Restoration of Voting Rights, and the Louisville Minimum Wage Ordinance. 

Flaco survived eleven years of incarceration, which began in his teenage years, including state-sanctioned torture via solitary confinement. During this time, Flaco earned a G.E.D. and Associate Degrees from Jefferson Technical & Community College (formerly Jefferson Community College).  

Flaco has an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree in Social Work from Spalding University in Louisville, KY. Currently, Bonifacio is working on a Doctor of Social Work degree, with a research focus on voting rights and advocacy as a coping strategy for Kentuckians after incarceration. Other research area’s include abolition, ending mass incarceration, health equity disparities and interventions, social work education, and community organizing as a social work framework.

Flaco is a Client Board Member at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, which also co-represented Flaco in their recent lawsuit, Aleman v. Beshear, for voting rights restoration in Kentucky. 

Flaco lead a team at a healthcare organization in Indiana to create an intervention to reduce and eliminate racial and ethnic bias in electronic health records, and has presented on this work at the State level. Bonifacio presents and writes on racial bias & structural racism, health equity, community organizing, and voting rights for justice-impacted people.

You can follow Flaco on his website at: BonifacioAleman.net