A talk with Sabrina Melendez

Sabrina Melendez

Program Coordinator and educator

Autonomous University of Social Movement

Sabrina Melendez (they/them) is a queer Puerto Rican activist, artist, and scholar, as well as an alumnus of the Autonomous University of Social Movement’s study abroad program in Cuba. They studied alternative political economies at Bennington College and the California Institute of Integral Studies, and co-founded a grassroots university for activists which has graduated over 600 students in the span of five years. Sabrina directed a summer camp for queer and trans youth for four years, taught JEDI (Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) trainings for three years, and participated in struggles toward migrant justice, abolition, labor solidarity, climate justice, animal liberation, feminism, and socialism for over a decade.