Kareen Coyoca

They, Them, Theirs | Los Angeles, CA | Co-Founder

Kareen Coyoca, M.A., is a facilitator, trainer, consultant, and organizer leveraging experiential learning to cultivate movement centered trainings, programs, and organizations, rooted in a justice and anti-imperialist practices. Kareen’s background in movement work digs into cultivating individual consciousness towards collective action, program design and delivery, and anti-oppression curriculum design and facilitation. For 15+ years Kareen has worked domestically and internationally in political education, human rights, facilitator training, and training of trainers.

Currently, Kareen works on developing and facilitating trainings for groups and organizations, with focuses in political education development and trainings, organizing and activism trainings, and the global nonprofit development complex. They have organized with justice groups in South Africa, Kenya, Myanmar, and the Philippines, as well as Asian and Pacific Islander Resistance (APIR) in challenging anti-Black racism in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives, Katarungan on Human Rights in the Philippines, and PUSO-SoCal on justice solidarity. They co-started the DC chapter of the International Womens Alliance to educate, organize, and mobilize action against imperialism and to elevate the issues of third-world/working class/poor women. Kareen holds a B.A. in International Studies and in Sociology from The University of Central Arkansas and an M.A. in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management from SIT Graduate Institute.