244 Copyright © 2023, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 15 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5812-9.ch015 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This chapter chronicles the story of how the nonproft intermediary organization Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) and a community organization, A Resource in Serving Equality (ARISE) Adelante, also known as ARISE, worked together to expand servant leadership among Mexican American immigrant families living in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. With their strong focus on equity, IDRA and ARISE embraced and then expanded the traditional 10 characteristics of servant leadership to include advocacy and action. This chapter describes the history and background of both organizations, relates the work of these two organizations to servant leadership, shows how they were able to expand servant leadership to advocacy and action, provides lessons learned, and discusses next steps for how other organizations might apply these additional two characteristics to increase equity. INTRODUCTION IDRA and ARISE (also called ARISE Adelante) have long embodied the concept of servant leadership first described by Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 publication, The Servant as Leader (1970). The or- ganizations’ work in distributive leadership and shared family leadership (Chavkin, 2017; Montemayor, 2007a; Montemayor & Chavkin, 2016, 2020, 2021) follows a strong parallel to the tenets of servant IDRA and ARISE Expand Servant Leadership to Advocacy and Action in South Texas Aurelio M. Montemayor Intercultural Development and Research Association, USA Nancy Feyl Chavkin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2251-4518 Texas State University, USA Lourdes Flores ARISE Adelante, USA