Kristiana Huitrón, the Executive Director of Voces Unidas for Justice, is a consummate advocate and educator who uses art, praxis, and research to move theory into practice that is rooted in balance. Whether in her community-based work with individuals or through training and technical assistance to organizations, catalyzing the power of the possible Ms. Huitrón develops projects and programming based in the human need for healing and justice, in order help end violence.
Ms. Huitron has worked nationally, with Red Wind Consulting and National Latin@ Network, and statewide, with Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Locally, she has worked from art galleries to the front lines, from managing the shelter, to initiating community-based youth education, from living rooms with Promotoras to courtrooms with survivors. Consistently, her work has centered around the intersection of anti-oppression, with culturally and linguistically generated approaches that are accessible to those outside of the mainstream. She has dedicated her work to serving Latin@s, immigrants, Native Americans, youth, survivors of violence, her family and community, in both Spanish and English in both urban and rural settings.
A contributing author to An Analysis of PREP Curricula: A trauma Informed Approach, she connected culture and trauma response. As the editor of Creating Sister Space: A Guide for Developing Tribal Shelter and Transitional Housing Programs, she worked with the author toward applicability of best practice. She has published blogs and essays in the anti-violence against women field, and most recently is co-authoring the results of a national study on the housing needs of Latin@ immigrant survivors of violence to be released by the end of 2017.
What are you looking forward to as a fellow of TLC?
“I am here to excavate and cultivate the best of myself, to expand my magical circle of women, because that is what heals me, and to hook into the greatest version of the future so that I can live it, so that we all can live it.“