Gabriella Anaïs Deal-Márquez

Anaïs Deal-Márquez is a cultural strategist, writer, and organizer, raised between Mexico and the Midwest. She is the former Co-Executive Director of Minneapolis-based Voices of Racial Justice (VRJ). Prior to stepping into this role, she was Director of Youth Organizing at VRJ. Her organizing is informed by cultural strategy that’s rooted in art as a tool to build power in community for sustained change. Anaïs is committed to fostering spaces that use storytelling as an anchor for healing and collective transformation. She loves spreading time near the water, cooking with family, and traveling to her homelands.