Popular Education Workshop
Sunday, October 5, 2026, 4:00–6:00 PM Add to Calendar · Google Calendar
Village Co-Housing Community Room, 1104 Mound St, Madison
$10 suggested donation
Join us for a Popular Education workshop for community organizers, led by visiting Salvadoran social movement leaders.
Registration required: info@mascp.com
Info
Solidarity to Strengthen the People's Power
Power is built from the ground up, and it starts with our stories. Together, we will learn from each other's personal experiences in organizing, exchanging practical actions, triumphs, and hard-earned lessons that can be adapted and applied directly to our own home communities.
Why Join Us?
Build Solidarity: We will bridge diverse contexts to uncover the threads that connect us, reinforcing the truth that we are stronger together in the face of shared systemic issues.
Cultivate cross-border community: Resisting global struggles requires a global network. Here, you will find a supportive community committed to long-term collective resistance and mutual accompaniment.
Whether you are a seasoned organizer or just beginning to engage in community action, your voice and experience are essential. Let's learn, strategize, and build the power needed to create lasting change.
Objectives:
- Identify our common struggles, their causes and our allies to strategize and build power.
- Learn from each other about personal experiences in organizing, and consider how these practices might be applied in our own communities.
- Build solidarity in the face of common issues experienced across contexts.
- Build community to resist global struggles.
Presenters
Kelly Calles
Kelly Calles is one of the Salvadoran staff of USESSC. She started working with Sister Cities in April 2024. She has a degree in International Affairs and has completed several training courses on human rights, governance and democracy. She has participated in several electoral observation volunteer programs at national and international levels, including the 2022 elections in Peru. She has taken part in international youth forums and interned at the observatory of public policies of Francisco Gavidia University (UFG) in El Salvador. In 2024, she participated in a political program for young people of the Netherlands cooperation. In 2025, she completed the Public Policy course with a Human Rights Approach offered by the School of the Organization of American States (OAS) and represented CRIPDES at the Citizen Political School of the Central American University (UCA) in El Salvador.
Noemí Delgado
Noemí Delgado currently serves as the U.S. Staff Grassroots Organizer at U.S.–El Salvador Sister Cities. A member of the Salvadoran diaspora, she has spent the past six years engaged in community health work as a doula, health educator, and massage therapist. After earning her B.A. in Psychology, Noemí received a Fulbright scholarship in 2019 to spend a year living and working with an association of midwives in El Salvador. Together, they created a book documenting the vital role midwives played during the country's 12-year armed conflict. Noemí is passionate about historical memory, ancestral healing practices and community care.
Marina Díaz
Marina Díaz is a single mother and community leader, a longtime human rights advocate, and a former FMLN combatant. At 65 years old, she serves as president of the Municipal Association of Victims of the Armed Conflict in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. She joined the social struggles led by the Association for the development of El Salvador (CRIPDES) in 1987. She was part of the post-conflict repopulation process in the 1990s. In 1994, she served on the first FMLN municipal council in Tecoluca, and in the 2000s, she was part of the CRIPDES San Vicente regional team. Currently, her activism focuses on keeping historical memory alive and safeguarding the rights of victims' families.