Beatriz Beckford

Consultant, Artist, and Facilitator Educator Political Strategist in the United States

Beatriz Beckford

Consultant, Artist, and Facilitator Educator Political Strategist in the United States

Beatriz is an artist, educator, and strategist who exemplifies experienced and intentional leadership in movements for social change. She brings over 20 years of experience in strategy planning, organizational development and operations, community organizing, architecting multilayered campaigns, developing integrative arts and popular education programs, facilitation, process design, coalition and alliance building, capacity building, grassroots fundraising and development, and philanthropy expertise.

Using liberation theory, transformative justice, arts, and leveraging community wisdom and leadership are core principles that Beatriz believes bring people together to build beloved societies that can thrive across the spectrum of difference. These values fuel her passion for organizing, liberatory education, art and design from the grassroots, and her love of community.

Beatriz has trained with the Management Center, Grassroots Fundraising Institute, the Center for Third World Organizing, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, Ruckus Society, Social Justice Leadership Institute, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Feminist Organizing School. She was a CoreAlign Speaking Race to Power Fellow, was the artist in residence at the Art Institute - Homan Square and views her most crucial training as those opportunities that come from deep community work, relational praxis, and kinship circles.

Her commitment to amplifying the wisdom of the grassroots and organizing with communities hardest hit by systemic oppression has been marked by her creative approaches, strong leadership, and integrity-driven work ethic.

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Groups/Organizations/Institutions Beatriz has worked with; Cause Effective Groundswell Fund, Barred Business, Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity, Black & Engaged, Movement 4 Black Lives, MomsRising, MXGM, National Black Food & Justice Alliance, Rooted in Community, NYC Dept. of Public Health, Brooklyn Food Coalition, Brooklyn College, NYU Law School, Parsons, Grassroots Action Network, Girls for Gender Equity, The Highline, Closing the Hunger Gap, the Arts Institute of Chicago, International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Mattatuck Museum, The Aspen Institute, Critical Resistance, People's Advocacy Institute, MS Prison Reform Coalition, Selma Center, Black Belt Community Foundation, Earthseed, Jackson People’s Assembly, and many more.

  • Work
    • Capacity Building & Strategy
  • Education
    • Southern Connecticut State University
    • Loyola University Chicago
    • School of the Arts Institute Chicago