Gabriela Cartagena

Narrative shifter, cultural worker and community organizer

Boston-born and raised Salvadoran Honduran narrative shifter, cultural worker, and community organizer whose work centers on housing justice and immigration liberation. Her practice spans humanitarian documentary work with asylum seekers at the San Diego-Tijuana border, teaching photography in Mexico and Cuba, facilitating media workshops that include photography, zine making, and podcasting with Boston youth whose families have resisted eviction, and most recently, supporting a statewide campaign to put rent control on the 2026 Massachusetts ballot.