Community Organizer
In 2025 alone, we served, mobilized, organized, and supported over 1,200 Maya members in Northeast Ohio. With our expansion into Virginia, we are now also working directly with Maya women, strengthening their leadership and well-being.
Through our Community Organizer program, we promote grassroots leadership and participation, strengthening inclusive and self-determined communities. As part of this program, we lead gender justice campaigns through the LGBTQ2S+ Maya Initiative and the Maya Women’s Initiative, and advance language justice by training binational interpreters with a focus in Ohio U.S.
Maya Women
Is a module within our Community Organizer program, created, led, and continuously designed by Maya Women. This module supports their communities in facing violence, family separation, and migration-related discrimination, providing Maya interpretation, safe organizing spaces, and advocacy campaigns. Maya Women strengthens women’s leadership, community networks, and participation in defending their rights in Ohio, Virginia, and Guatemala.
LGBTQ2S+Maya
The Maya LGBTQ2S+ Initiative is a module of our Community Organizer program where displaced Maya LGBTQ2S+ communities organize, create solutions, and develop leadership to address violence and discrimination, while building support networks and safe spaces in Ohio, Virginia U.S.
Maya Language Justice
The Language Justice Initiative organizes and supports Maya communities to ensure access to justice in their native languages. We provide interpretation in Ixil, K’iche’, Q’eqchi’, Awakateko, Akateko, and Mam, with a community-based approach in Ohio and national support.
We also develop Maya-language materials and audio resources, offer workshops for interpreters and community promoters, and promote language revitalization, strengthening community leadership and participation in defending the linguistic and cultural rights.
Publications
When language is denied, families are torn apart—Margarita’s case exposes how the absence of Indigenous language interpretation fuels unjust separation and threatens family unity.
Maya Migrants and Psychotherapy: Recommendations and a Case Study from Comunidad Sol in Canton, Ohio
More than 20 children found illegally working at Wayne County poultry plant.