Paola Mendoza

Artist

Paola Mendoza is a Latinx artist, film director, author, and cultural organizer. She co-founded the Women's March and served as its Artistic Director. She has organized creative actions across the country and is a bestselling author of the books Sanctuary, and the New York Times bestseller "Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World". Mendoza uses art to disrupt and disarm, to change our thinking and to advance movements for immigrants, women, and reproductive justice. Her work reflects an immigrant lens and sensibility that offers a different way to see the world. She exposes the inherent violence of overly determined structures of government, borders and unjust laws.