Ámate Cecilia Pérez (pronouns: she-we) is a decolonizing Nahuah from Kuzcatlan (El Salvador) and the founding director of Decolonizing Race and the Latinx Racial Equity Project. She is also a race equity and liberation trainer, an organizational development consultant, a social justice warrior and a writer. She works with movement building organizations, non-profits, unions, government agencies and foundations to increase their impact and organizational effectiveness. Ámate has directed multiple national and transnational organizations. Prior to her social justice experience, Ámate worked as a print and radio journalist. Ámate and her family fled the Salvadoran civil war in the early 1980s, grew up in the Central American community in Los Angeles, and benefited from the 1986 immigration reform law. She has a B.A. from UCSD and a master’s in journalism from UCB. Ámate is queer, a martial artist and mother. She now lives in Inverness, CA on unceded and occupied Coast Miwok and Tamal-ko Indian territory.

Ámate Cecilia Pérez

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