Hector A. Peralta

Based in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood, The AjA Project is an arts and social justice organization dedicated to engaging critically with issues affecting local communities and realizing collective liberation through participatory storytelling and the documentary arts. Since 2000, it has advanced its mission through media arts workshops, fellowships, grassroots advocacy, and community-driven public art. The Director of Creative Advocacy and Partnerships will play an essential role in informing, supporting, and expanding art and advocacy work to amplify programs’ reach and impact. The Director will link program staff, local coalitions, ally organizations, and refugee and immigrant communities who are disproportionately impacted by surveillance, criminalization, and civil liberties violations. The fellow will conduct strategic analysis, as well as develop creative advocacy responses at the city and county levels: through community engagement in town halls, oral history sharing, and public participatory art.