Cristina Aguilar is a nationally recognized leader, facilitator, policy, and advocacy strategist in intersectional movements, steeped in reproductive justice. A queer Latinx from the U.S./Mexico borderlands, Cristina is a movement doula for collective liberation and human rights.
As the President of Aguilar Strategies, she advises, coaches, and dreams with local, state, national and international organizations, advocates, and policy makers on applying intersectional, anti-racist and transformational practices in their work, lives, and communities. Cristina’s spaces and offerings are liberatory, mindful, and lovingly rooted in reproductive, transformative, and healing justice values, emergent strategy, abolition, somatics, and applying a trauma sensitive lens.
She served as Interim Executive Director of The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice during the shifting year of 2020, leading them through the global pandemic, racial justice reckonings, and election cycle, where she centered collective care, rest and building sanctuary as an antidote to deep challenges and grief. Cristina was previously the Executive Director for the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR), where she led an intergenerational, intersectional vision around their efforts to organize and catalyze the Colorado Latine community to shape policies that impact their lives.
Cristina is on the advisory board for the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture at the Iliff School of theology and serves as the vice chair of transformative Leadership for Change (TLC) governance council, where she also co-led their 2019 fellowship cohort. She co-founded COLOR Action Fund and the People of Color Caucus for One Colorado. She was named a Political Rising Star by Denverite and Top 25 Most Powerful Woman, by the Denver Women’s Chamber. She was a Marshall Memorial Fellow and a Bonfils Stanton Foundation Livingston Fellow.
Cristina is also a writer and creatix, master reiki healer and certified yoga nidra guide, dedicated to spiritual and restorative practices that blend and reclaim her family’s Mexican curanderisma lineage. She believes radical self-care, community care, rest reclamations, and love will ensure we all thrive on the path to collective liberation.