Angélica Otero

Angélica has 25 years of experience in the field of social justice as a founder and executive director, organizing trainer, professor, coach, and a longtime community organizer of several justice organizations in the United States and Ecuador. She brings a deep understanding of intersectionality, and an unwavering commitment to racial, gender, and economic justice. Her work includes supporting grassroots organizations to build strong memberships, develop leadership, and create campaigns that support groups to win concrete changes in their communities. She has experience in organizational change, strategic planning, management, and supervision systems.  Angélica has experience in leading racial justice processes including creating space for courageous conversations and developing organizational plans for a racial justice journey. Her methodology of coaching and facilitation works to create space for people to build intimacy and trust. This encourages trust, candid conversation, and shared lived experiences that ultimately yield knowledge and solutions for transforming oppression; and creating solutions for how to structure organizations in service of their vision and mission. Angélica is a Black, Indigenous, Queer, Immigrant, Latine, Woman living in NYC with her fun-loving and curious daughter.