Maribel Valdez Gonzalez is an Indigenous Xicana educator and mother of two. She resides in occupied Duwamish territory, also known as Seattle, WA. She is from occupied Somi Se’k land, also known as San Antonio, TX.

In her 10 years as an antiracist educator, Maribel Valdez Gonzalez has been honored to work with youth and adults to decolonize and humanize pedagogical practices, social structures, and belief systems in classrooms and beyond. She is a founding leader of the Education Amplifier program which began in the fall of 2017. She has since served as Amplifier's educational consultant for multiple national public art campaigns to bridge the gap between social change movements and education by providing educators with teaching tools created by Amplifier partners to guide students toward action. Maribel has collaborated with and offered curricular guidance to non-profit organizations such as the Women's March, March for our Lives, Earth Guardians, Families Belong Together, IllumiNatives, She Can STEM, and many more.

Maribel is a former 6-8 English Language Arts and World Cultures teacher and is a STEM Integration Transformation Coach for Technology Access Foundation. She works to create transformative systems of learning for students and teachers of color to eliminate race-based disparities by partnering with teachers to cultivate a project-based learning environment at TAF@Washington Middle School in Seattle Public Schools. Maribel's goal is to create academically engaging learning experiences through a culturally sustaining environment that fosters empowerment, healing, and radical kindness. Committed to creating systems centered on equity and justice, she is a member of the Antiracist Arts Education Task Force for Visual & Performing Arts for Seattle Public Schools.