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Mercedez is CODEPINK's Campaigns Assistant.

Mercedez is a community organizer and storyteller devoted to building culture, connection, and collective action through narrative. Her work spans environmental justice, political organizing, media, and the arts, with experience in grassroots organizing, advocacy, outreach, and community storytelling. She relishes in deep, relational organizing and in the power of stories to shift culture, deepen empathy, and move people toward action. Mercedez also advocates for delight, pleasure, and play as essential parts of collective liberation.

She received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder and is currently curating her own interdisciplinary, cross-cultural MFA through lived experience, creative practice, and global study.