Ana Martina
Community educator of Mexican origin, worked with community radios in Mexico and the United States for the last 2 decades promoting the use of free-use platforms for sound production. She was the Technical Director of the FM Prometheus Community Radio Project in the United States, supporting dozens of organizations in the country to obtain low-power FM radio licenses. She is a founding member of the Radicante start-up worker collective, media and digital technologies. Board Member of the Democracy At Work Institute. Membership Director of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives where she has coordinated for the last 5 years the support network Movement of Immigrants in Cooperatives at the national level. Member and organizer of the feminist media collective Comadre Luna, producer of La Canasta, a short media podcast with mutual aid resources for the Spanish community in Philadelphia and La Cacerola, a podcast with untold stories of structural racism, struggles and radical imagination within Latinx communities in Philadelphia. Founder member of Colmenar Cooperative Consulting. She has lived in Philadelphia for the last decade, with her little radicant family.
Educadora comunitaria de origen mexicano, trabajó con radios comunitarias en México y Estados Unidos durante las últimas 2 décadas promoviendo el uso de plataformas de libre uso para la producción de sonido. Fue la Directora Técnica del Proyecto de Radio Comunitaria FM Prometheus en los Estados Unidos, apoyando a decenas de organizaciones en el país para obtener licencias de radio FM de baja potencia. Es miembro fundadora del colectivo de trabajadores emergentes Radicante, medios y tecnologías digitales. Miembro de la Junta Directiva del Instituto Democracy At Work. Directora de Membresía de la Federación de Cooperativas de Trabajadores de los Estados Unidos donde ha coordinado durante los últimos 5 años la red de apoyo al Movimiento de Inmigrantes en Cooperativas a nivel nacional. Miembro y organizadora del colectivo de medios feminista Comadre Luna, productora de La Canasta, un breve podcast de medios con recursos de ayuda mutua para la comunidad española en Filadelfia y La Cacerola, un podcast con historias no contadas de racismo estructural, luchas e imaginación radical dentro de las comunidades latinx. en Filadelfia. Socio fundador de Colmenar Cooperative Consulting. Ha vivido en Filadelfia durante la última década, con su pequeña y radiante familia.
Awarded Grants
2017
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Ana will work with newly arrived immigrant youth in Philadelphia and Upper Darby, many of whom have gone through challenging experiences with immigration detention and foster care. The project will involve storytelling and the creation of collages using maps, painting, and fabric. Participants will draw the paths they have transited until arrival in their current neighborhood, describing their relationship to the territories in which they have lived and reflecting on their identity. Ana will conduct four sessions at La Puerta Abierta in Norris Square Neighborhood Project, culminating in two community events and a website showcasing short podcasts and narratives.
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