Florida Immigrant Coalition
Isabel was born in Honduras and has lived in the US intermittently since 1983. In almost 30 years of social justice work, she has experience working with grassroots organizations (youth, indigenous, immigrant, women, rural) in the US and Central America. She earned a Ph.D. in Education in 2001 in Spain. Her areas of expertise include popular education, gender training, participatory research and project evaluation. She has also taught university graduate and postgraduate courses. Isabel and her husband founded a popular education team called “La Tapizca” in Central America and “Popular Education Consultants” in the US to assist social organizations in creating and implementing educational and organizational capacity building processes. Isabel is also a Board member of the Palm Beach County Coalition for Immigrant Rights (PBCCIR). She joined FLIC in 2008.