For over 30 years, I have paricipated in social movements that seek to transform society.

I work to end structural racism, and discrimination of all kinds, as an independent consultant, community organizer and teacher.

Since 2003, I have trained students at UCLA to fight injustice while partnering them with organizations working for social change. Together, we have challenged racism, supported formerly incarcerated people to build power to change laws that discriminate against them, and helped college students build a collective voice. Currently, I support community and student leaders involved in the social movement to abolish youth incarceration in California.

After law school, I worked as a human rights advocate at the Central American Human Rights Commission (CODEHUCA) in San José, Costa Rica.

In Los Angeles, I have served as a case advocate for homeless families at Harbor Interfaith Shelter and as a community organizer at the Community Coalition in South Los Angeles. There, I organized direct-action campaigns with people on welfare, grandmothers caring for relatives' children placed in foster care, and social service providers building a strong safety net.

Today, I work to enhance the capacity of change-agents by:

* Facilitating collaborative partnerships to solve problems and achieve structural change across issues, racial, and geographic boundaries

* Training people to build an organized voice using base-building strategies, power mapping/power analysis, and shaping campaigns with them

* Facilitating systems-change efforts to end mass incarceration and racial injustice by shifting public resources from human caging to human needs

* Designing and teaching courses in community organizing and policy implementation

My ancestral roots are in the mountains of Durango, a state in northern Mexico, where this picture was taken.

I am grateful for the ability to support those people and institutions seeking to build the world, communities, and ideas needed to thrive and to challenge injustice.

For a detailed list of projects, please view my LinkedIn profile or email me at sausarabia@gmail.com