Maru Mora Villalpando is a community organizer, political analyst, consultant, trainer with more than ten years of experience, focusing on immigrant and racial justice. Maru has conducted numerous trainings throughout the Northwest, from basic community organizing, legislative process, media for community organizing, immigration enforcement, and more. Maru organized successfully to defeat anti-immigrant bills in Washington State. She helped push for farmworker rights at Sakuma Farms and the current boycott, is currently organizing in the aftermath of the 2014 hunger strikes at Tacoma Detention Center, which has had a rippling effect to the rest of the nation. She is a regular political analyst guest on radio and TV across the nation, and serves in the Blue Ribbon Commission of the undocumented and former undocumented, and is part of the Not1More deportation campaign. Maru is a single mother raising a mature, critical thinker teenage girl who appeared with her on Democracy Now!