Core Members
Evan King
Allison Lira
Liz Hacker
Jessica Garcia
Lukasz Firla
Jalileh Garcia
Jae Hubay
Natalia Fajardo
Board Members
Georie Bryant
Allison Lira
James Doernberg
Supporters & Advisers
Kris Hannigan-Luther
Pambana Gutto Bassett
Lee Schlenker
Hani Ali
Steph Alvarez
Emma Banks
Karen Blanchard
John Clark Pegg
Lyn Clark Pegg
Gary Cozette
Moravia de la O
James Dimock
Maggie Ervin
Pilar File-Muriel
Walker Grooms
Thom Haines
Aleita Hass-Holcombe
Jessica Hayssen
Bette Hoover
Mónica Hurtado
Maria José Méndez Gutiérrez
Connor Klausing
Meghan Krausch
Ricardo Levins Morales
Rachel Mehl
Ryan Morgan
Dixie Olmstead
David Pegg
Kera Peterson
Gail Phares
Tom Power
Niccolo Roditti
Bryan Rogers
Mariah Rosenblum
Diane Stradling
Lisa Taylor
Genesis Torres
Cat Walker
Carol Wallace
John Walsh
Eleonore Wesserle
Vanessa Pena
Samantha Wherry
Jeannette Charles
Melissa Cox
Chelsey Dyer
Elise Roberts
Coalition Partners
The Solidarity Collective is an independent organization and does not interfere with the work of our partner organizations. However, we find ourselves constantly inspired by them: their commitment, their vision, and their grassroots movements. Above are some of those partners, both from Latin America and the U.S.
OUR TEAM
HONDURAS PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Allison Lira (she/her)
honduras@solidaritycollective.org
Allison Lira joined the International Team in August 2020. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation from Trinity College Dublin. In the past, she’s engaged in peacebuilding and human rights research and advocacy in Northern Ireland and Palestine
NATIONAL DIRECTOR AND OPERATIONS MANAGER
Liz Hacker (she/her)
liz@solidaritycollective.org
Liz is passionate about connecting food sovereignty movements across the hemisphere: recognizing the power of land, space, listening and sharing cross-culturally. She has been involved in food justice organizing, bio-intensive growing and farming, and working with the land and people in systems. She has a degree in Spanish and Marketing Management from St. Catherine University along with a M.A. In Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT.
DIGITAL ORGANIZER
Evan King (he/him)
evan@solidaritycollective.org
Evan has a background in international relations and audiovisual production, social justice, and human rights accompaniment. He moved to Bogota, Colombia in 2018 where he provided international human rights accompaniment to rural peasant, Indigenous and Black grassroots movements throughout Colombia's Pacific Coast and Southwestern mountains. He holds a degree in International Relations and Latin American Studies from The College of William and Mary and has been involved with grassroots organizations in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monrovia, Liberia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
COLOMBIA PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Jessica Garcia (she/her)
colombia@solidaritycollective.org
Jessica joined the Solidarity Collective in August 2021. Jessica is from northern Argentina and has lived in Colombia for two years. During this time she lived in Barrancabermeja (Colombia), where she provided international accompaniment to rural peasant and feminist movements in Colombia’s northeastern border. Previously, she was an international accompanier to Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley, Palestine. There she learned the importance of international solidarity between peoples. She has a degree in International Relations from the National University of Rosario and has been involved in various civil society organizations in Rosario (Argentina) working on Human Rights, international solidarity and anti-colonial struggles.
SOUTHEAST REGION DIRECTOR
Tirzah Villegas (she/her)
tirzah@solidaritycollective.org
Tirzah has been the Southeast Regional Director since 2022. She is a recent graduate from Duke Divinity School, where she studied decolonized Christianity and aesthetics as it pertains to spiritual liberation and liberation practices. She is most interested in creating spaces that allow for people across a variety of spiritual disciplines to engage in spiritual practices that offer liberation from imperialist and colonialist structures.
CUBA PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Jae Hubay (They/Them/He/Him)
cuba@solidaritycollective.org
Jae found his political home in 2017 through Put People First! PA, organizing the poor and dispossessed across lines of division for healthcare as a human right. Their work has focused on base building, political education and leadership development. Jae is also a member of the University of the Poor, and has worked with the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and the PA Homeless Union. They joined the Solidarity Collective in August of 2022.
CUBA PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Natalia Fajardo (She/Her)
cuba@solidaritycollective.org
Natalia Fajardo has organized across borders and sectors for twenty years. Growing up in Colombia, then migrating to the United States, she has worked for students, farmers and farmworkers rights; neighborhood power, and to build unity across languages. She likes to plant things and ride a bike.
COLOMBIA PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Lukasz Firla (he/him)
colombia@solidaritycollective.org
Lukasz joined Solidarity Collective in Colombia in June 2023 after a twelve-year engagement with peacemaking and grassroots solidarity work in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he documented human rights violations, accompanied human rights defenders and advocated for the protection of subsistence farming and pastoral communities resisting military occupation and bombardments. Coming from the Silesian people divided by artificial borders, Lukasz has been building solidarity with anti-colonial struggles in Eastern Europe, Kurdistan and Latin America for 16 years. He loves facilitating workshops on nonviolent intervention and undoing oppressions, and beyond work, he climbs big rocks and makes loud music.