Lucía was first exposed to community organizing and movement-building developing strategic trainings for young DREAMers with Marshall Ganz and the (former) New Organizing Institute in 2009. These experiences connected multiple dots for Lucía, who grew up wrestling with the contradictions between a working class U.S. upbringing and the palpable fallout of U.S. imperialism in her maternal family home, Guatemala. They also left her with an unwavering belief in human potential and an unshakeable longing for collective liberation. Since then, Lucía has been dedicated to supporting the movement for climate justice. Most recently, she trained hundreds of organizers and advocates through the Climate Advocacy Lab and received Kalliopeia Foundation’s Spiritual Ecology Fellowship. Lucía was born and raised in Santa Fe, NM and is now based in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.
