Andrew Willis Garcés was raised in Memphis, TN and Guadalajara, México and now lives in the District of Columbia, a proud Washingtonian by choice. He started facilitating meetings as co-coordinator of the Broward County Green Party at 17, after winning a scholarship to attend several facilitator trainings with the American Youth Foundation. During his time as an undergraduate and grad student in the District, he first focused on nonviolent direct action training work with anti-war and Latin America solidarity groups, and for the next several years worked with a variety of organizations fighting gentrification in historically African-American and Latina/o neighborhoods.

Since then he's helped build successful campaigns with labor unions, experimented with popular education while organizing with public housing residents and led anti-racism workshops for white activists. He's also led train the trainer and organizational development workshops in Spanish for grassroots groups in the US, Colombia and México. With Training for Change he's given trainings for organizations like Muhlenberg College and Campus Progress.

E-mail him at willisa@gmail.com

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