Anton Flores-Maisonet

Anton Flores-Maisonet is the Founding Director of Casa Alterna, an Atlanta-based ministry under the care of Atlanta Friends Meeting. Casa Alterna practices radical hospitality and faithful resistance, providing short- and long-term housing to vulnerable immigrants and cultivating supportive communities where healing and new beginnings take root.  

Since 2020, Casa Alterna has welcomed hundreds of people from more than 50 countries, and Anton serves as Friend-in-Residence alongside his spouse, Charlotte. He also leads “Compas at the Gates of ICE,” standing in solidarity with immigrants at risk of detention and offering accompaniment, rights information, and advocacy as a humane alternative to ICE.  

A social worker, spiritual director, and author of WELCOME, FRIENDS: Stories of Hope and Hospitality with Immigrants (2025), Anton has spent decades building intentional communities of hospitality and resistance. His life and work remind us that hospitality is resistance, faith is expressed through solidarity, and love knows no borders.