Amalia Anderson, Raíces Co-Director

Work Background: 
Amalia brings over 12 years of community organizing, cultural work community education experience with a specific focus on human rights education, anti-racism education, cultural rights and the production of knowledge, and movement building to Raíces. During the 2004 election cycle, Amalia was the National Director for Latino Outreach for National Voice - a coalition of approx. 1000 non-partisan organization and community groups.
Following the election, she created the Latino Leadership Project, a program dedicated to building and strengthening a broad-based movement for political participation within Latino communities. The LLP is currently a core program of the Main Street Project.
In 2005 Amalia became the Project Director for the Main Street Project the non-partisan arm of the League of Rural Voters, which is based in Minneapolis, MN. Amalia is a Field Representative with the American Indian Treaty Council and has participated in meetings such as the Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the Permanent Form on Indigenous Issues; Currently she is an anchor organization steering committee member of the National Media Justice Network. Regionally she has been on the steering committee for the Midwest Social Forum for the past two years. 

Academic degrees:
Amalia earned her Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College and her Juris Doctorate from Hamline University School of Law. Her areas of specialization include community organizing and education, cultural activism, non-partisan political participation and Media Justice

Place of Birth: Guatemala City, Guatemala

Favorite quote:
"The most beautiful thing for those who have fought a whole life is to come to the end and say; we believed in people and life, and life and the people never let us down."-- Otto Rene Castillo, Guatemalan Poet