Dignity, Not Detention: Catalina Nieto at TEDxFoggyBottom

Catalina Nieto, an activist for human rights and immigration, shares her personal message of advocacy and action.

Catalina
Nieto is the Field Director of the Detention Watch Network (DWN), a
national coalition of organizations and individuals working to expose
and challenge the injustices of the U.S. immigration detention and
deportation system. Ever since Catalina migrated from Colombia to the
United States in 2000, she has been actively engaged in the immigrant
rights and Latin American solidarity movement as a community organizer,
artist and popular educator. Through her work at DWN, Catalina supports
local and national organizing against detention expansion and towards
policies that promote the rights and dignity of all persons. Catalina
graduated with an M.A. in Social Justice and Intercultural Relations
from SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont and a double B.A. in Sociology
and Communications, Media and Theater from Northeastern Illinois
University. Before joining DWN, Catalina worked as a community organizer
with the immigrant rights organization Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee
Coalition (TIRRC), the Latin American solidarity organization Witness
for Peace, and supported movement building as an interpreter and popular
educator with the Highlander Center for Popular Education and the
Wayside Center for Popular Education.

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