On Mobilizing Communities with Sandy Ovalle Martínez | Migration Series | Ep. 99
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Sandy Ovalle Martínez is a table-setter and space-curator, rooting her work in the deep faith and strength of Chicane and Latine spiritual teachers. She is a native of Mexico City. A mujerista theologian and an organizer, she currently directs campaigns and mobilizing for a faith-based non-profit in Washington, D.C., where she oversees mobilization and activist engagement around different justice areas including climate and environmental justice, immigration, women and girls, and peace and nonviolence. Before this, she worked with immigrant and refugee communities, providing direct legal and resettlement services as well as mobilizing faith groups for advocacy around issues that impacted these communities. She has worked in campus ministry with college students in Texas and California. She holds an M.A. in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. Sandy loves writing poetry and gathering people around a table full of homemade pozole.
Today, Sandy introduces herself as a table-setter and a space-curator; Abbie and Sandy discuss what that means. Sandy shares stories about her experience engaging, mobilizing, and empowering both immigrant and non-immigrant communities in action. Abbie and Sandy explore the most challenging and most rewarding experiences of Sandy’s work.
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