The Alumni Society’s Ricardo Anzaldua Is a Coalition Builder
If anyone knows the power behind convening Latinos to make an impact, it’s Ricardo Anzaldua.
His impulse to organize and bring Latinos together began early while growing up in New Mexico and South Texas. In high school as the Chicano movement gained traction, he became a strong advocate for Mexican American civil rights and a community organizer.
He took that passion to elite institutions like his alma mater, Brown University where he advocated for diversifying student admissions and increased support for students of color.
While earning his law degree at Harvard, he helped lead an all-Latino summit of students from all Ivy League schools to discuss breaking barriers for future generations.
For many, it became a semblance of home—a space to share stories, pride, and culture-bending experiences with peers from far-flung corners of the country.
Decades later, inspired by those energizing student gatherings, Ricardo cofounded The Alumni Society in 2015 to once again bring together like-minded Latinos this time to show corporations the thousands of successful, ambitious Latino leaders poised to make a difference at the highest level in corporate America.
The Alumni Society’s tenth anniversary is on the horizon, and the work is far from over. Ricardo sees more opportunities than ever to empower the Latino community at all levels and become a force of change.
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About Our Guest
Ricardo Anzaldua is Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel at Everest, a role he’s held since he joined the Company in June 2023.
Ricardo has more than three decades of legal, corporate governance and (re)insurance industry expertise, spanning the U.S., Bermuda and other global jurisdictions and industries across the public and private sectors. He most recently served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, “Freddie Mac.” In this role, he led the enterprise legal, corporate secretarial, and board governance functions and executed a successful organizational restructuring that created significant professional development opportunities for employees.
Prior to Freddie Mac, Ricardo was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of MetLife, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s global legal operations, global compliance and government relations. He also served as General Counsel for The Hartford Financial Services Group where he guided all strategic, regulatory, commercial and transactional matters across the commercial P&C, personal lines P&C, group benefits, claims and reinsurance divisions. Ricardo’s background also includes a successful tenure at renowned global law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he was a Partner and Chair of the Diversity Committee.
Throughout his career, Ricardo has served as an advisor to numerous private and public company boards, including notable roles as chairman of the board of trustees for the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction and the board of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. He currently serves on the board of the New York City Bar Fund and is a member of both the Hispanic National Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In 2015, Ricardo cofounded The Alumni Society alongside Pedro A. Guerrero. Ricardo earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University, where he specialized in economics and Latin American history.
