Beatriz Beckford

Consultant, Artist, and Facilitator Educator Political Strategist in the United States

Beatriz Beckford

Consultant, Artist, and Facilitator Educator Political Strategist in the United States

Beatriz is an artist, educator, and strategist who exemplifies experienced and intentional leadership in movements for social change. She brings 20 years of experience strategy planning, organizational development and advancement, community organizing, architecting multilayered campaigns, developing integrative arts and popular education programs, facilitation, process design, coalition and alliance building, capacity building and grassroots fundraising and development, and philanthropy expertise.

Using liberation theory, transformative justice, arts, and leveraging community wisdom and leadership are core principals that Beatriz believes bring people together to build beloved societies that can thrive across the spectrum of difference. These values fuels her passion for organizing, liberatory education, art and design that comes from the grassroots, and her love of community.

Beatriz has trained with the Management Center, Grassroots Fundraising Institute, the Center for Third World Organizing, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, Ruckus Society, Social Justice Leadership Institute, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Feminist Organizing School. She was a CoreAlign Speaking Race to Power Fellow, is the artist in residence at the Art Institute - Homan Square and views her most important training as those opportunities that come from deep community work, relational praxis and kinship circles.

Her commitment to amplifying the wisdom of the grassroots and organizing with communities hardest hit by systemic oppression has been marked by her creative approaches, strong leadership, and integrity driven work ethic.

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Groups/Organizations/Institutions Beatriz has worked with; Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity, Black & Engaged, Movement 4 Black Lives, MomsRising, MXGM, National Black Food & Justice Alliance, Black Urban Growers, Youth Rights Media, Rooted in Community, NYC Dept. of Public Health, Brooklyn Food Coalition, Brooklyn College, NYU Law School, Parsons, Grassroots Action Network, Girls for Gender Equity, The Highline, Closing the Hunger Gap, the Arts Institute of Chicago, International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Mattatuck Museum, The Aspen Institute, Critical Resistance, People's Advocacy Institute, MS Prison Reform Coalition, Selma Center, Black Belt Community Foundation, Earthseed, Jackson People’s Assembly, Borealis Philanthropy and many more.

  • Work
    • Capacity Building & Strategy
  • Education
    • Southern Connecticut State University
    • Loyola University Chicago
    • School of the Arts Institute Chicago