Natalia Guerrero, Program Manager – United States

Natalia is an Andean nonbinary and immigrant community educator, cultural organizer, and storyteller. Their practice has focused on the use of participatory arts, media, and story-telling projects for movement building, transformation and liberation with/for immigrant, Black, Indigenous, POC and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. Currently they are the Program Manager for the United States at WITNESS supporting activists, grassroots organizations, advocates, and legal experts across the U.S. to better utilize video and technology to expose abuses, create counter-narratives, and fight for accountability. 

For the past 14 years, they have envisioned new programs, facilitated trainings, created resources, and organized around gender/racial/immigrant/climate justice and land defense. They co-lead WITNESS’ cross-regional strategy in Abya Yala (the “Americas”), centering Indigenous fights to protect life, the land and waters using video strategies for global solidarity, power, and accountability.

Natalia is the founder of Lion’s Tooth Project, a youth-led storytelling and community project.  They have an M.A in Media Studies from The New School and was part of the Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University.