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.

Dulcinea received her Bachelor’s in Sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara, where her studies centered on social movements, Latin American history, and Marxist theory. While at UCSB she was a member of the student political organizations El Congreso and M.U.J.E.R., struggling to improve the conditions for working class Black and Brown students on campus, while also servicing Latinx youth through college workshops.

In her free time, Dulcinea loves to weight lift and physically challenge herself. She also enjoys reading books on history, Marxist theory, philosophy, and poetry.