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  • Read more about Fatimeh Khan
Fatimeh Khan is the Co-Director for AFSC's Healing Justice Program.
  • Read more about Jacqueline Garcia-Martinez
Jacqueline "Jackie" Garcia-Martinez is a warrior scholar and Xicana Xingona from the town. In 2010, after experiencing family separation by the unjust immigration system, she took action and co-founded 67 Sueños alongside her six peers and mentor Pablo Paredes. In that same year she joined the Xicana Moratorium Coalition in Oakland and co-led citywide walkouts to fight and defeat the Oakland Gang Injunctions. Since then, Jackie has been organizing and mentoring youth to be civically and politically involved in their communities.
  • Read more about Guisela Ramos-Guardado
Guisela Mishel Ramos was born in the beautiful town of Sanarate, Guatemala. She migrated alone to the states at age 7, embarking on a journey with the hopes to reunite with her mother. They were connected in 2003 and the Fruitvale became her new home. As a high school student she remembers being this quiet and timid girl. Afraid of people finding out her undocumented status. That all changed when she joined 67 Sueños. In 67 she learned to express herself and found her voice through spoken word. She used her newfound power to speak out against unjust immigration policies and violence impacting her community.
  • Read more about Ericson Amaya
Ericson "E" Amaya Bonilla was born in Pulgarcito de America (El Salvador), but was raised in Deep East Oakland. He joined 67 Sueños as a high school intern back in 2013. During his time at 67, he discovered poetry as the tool that allowed him to express himself and take control of his life. While getting himself through college, "E" has continued to mentor and organize over 100 Oakland youth each year. He is currently on his path to graduate from SFSU.
  • Read more about Dulcinea Arroyo
Dulcinea joined AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) to support the Roots for Peace team in developing and facilitating the Freedom School program and coalition building. Dulcinea is from Michoacan, Mexico, and at a young age she migrated with her family to South Central Los Angeles. She began community organizing in 2012, successfully advocating and witnessing the implementation of Ethnic Studies in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), among many other local campaigns in Los Angeles.
  • Read more about Adalberto Rios
Adalberto Rios is AFSC's Program Director for Roots for Peace.
  • Read more about Crystal Gonzalez
Crystal Gonzalez serves as Program Coordinator of AFSC’s Roots for Peace program in Los Angeles and has been on staff with AFSC since 2010.  With AFSC she has overseen the successful development of two urban farming projects, a food equity campaign, and the development of annual Freedom Schools that support youth organizing.
  • Read more about Minerva Mendoza
Minerva Mendoza is an indigenous Mixteca from the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. When she was seven years old, her family migrated to California in search of better opportunities and settled in Madera. She earned a degree in psychology from Fresno State in 2013. 
  • Read more about Myrna Martinez Nateras
Myrna Martinez Nateras is a popular educator, participatory researcher, and cultural organizing practitioner who has dedicated her experience to fostering the Central Valley’s immigrants into active citizens and social actors. She advocates and organizes for immigrants and indigenous rights, with a focus on strengthening women’s leadership. 
  • Read more about Lida Shepherd
Lida Shepherd is the director of AFSC’s West Virginia Economic Justice Project (WVEJ), a community organizing and advocacy program. Lida’s work advances policy solutions to issues affecting poor and working families in West Virginia, and includes popular education trainings, policy advocacy, and coalition building. Lida also serves on the boards of WV Center on Budget and Policy, Mountain State Justice, and the Greenbrier County Health Alliance. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies and lives with her family in Lewisburg, WV.
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