Andrew Willis Garcés

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Andrew Willis Garcés was raised in Memphis, TN and Guadalajara, México, has spent most of the last ten years in the District of Columbia and is now based in Harrisonburg, VA. 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 and Colombia and coordinates TfC's English-to-Spanish tools translation initiative.

Andrew has experimented with creative tactics for over a decade, assisting to coordinate a national campaign to allow thousands of shopping mall janitors form unions, helping kickoff a campaign to stop the privatization of public buildings in DC, and leading another campaign for community-led development in a low-income neighborhood. He also helped develop two short campaigns to impact US foreign policy toward Colombia, Obama Remember Us and No More Broken Hearts.

He has served on the boards of several local organizations, including the Save Our Safety Net-DC campaign, which mobilized thousands of new activists to local politics through creative direct action. You can read the story of the campaign here. He continues to work as a resource to a number of local and national organizing groups.

With Training for Change he's given trainings for organizations like Muhlenberg College, Campus Progress, the Green Party of Colombia and the DC Language Access Coalition.

E-mail him at willisa@gmail.com

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