During the workshop, and with our deepest thanks to inspiring EUC Professor and filmmaker Martha Stiegman, we gathered short stories from participants about their own research and community organizing stories. Below you can hear first-hand from these activists and researchers. Work participants are also contributors to the forthcoming Corporate Strategies and Community Resistance volume.


Janelle Chanona

Vice President, Belize Oceana Executive Committee

Saula Gayoso Morales

Member of the Regional Council of Indigenous Peoples in Defense of the Puebla-Hidalgo Territory.

Dr. Janette Bulkan

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia and Advisory Board of Member of the GREEN Institute, University of Guyana

Dr. Eliana Acosta Márquez

Full Professor and Researcher (Level C) at the Directorate of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

Joy Marcus

Red Thread Women’s Organization

Dr. David Bond

Associate Director, Center for the Advancement of Public Action


Dr. Asume Osuoka

Coordinator, Social Action International


Dr. Alissa Trotz

Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and the Director of Women and Gender Studies