Elizabeth Delgado

(Pronoun: DiDi)

Activist, Advocate, Anti-Racism Educator & Author

   

Contact

🏠 675 VFW Pkwy #133 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

🏠 361 Newbury St. #407 Boston, MA 02115

🏠554 Boston Post Rd. Orange, CT 06477

📧 info@thedididelgado.com

💻 https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedididelgado/

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PROFILE: Pragmatic, passionate and collaborative community organizer and social activist with experience rooted in compassionate and clear communication, restorative justice processes, and mass mobilization while implementing administrative, organizational, and operational efficiencies that support community settings to prosper and thrive.

GOAL:  To inspire audiences’ and readers’ introspection, social activism, and spiritual growth through conveying the cruciality of their involvement in anti-racism work and examining the inequities of systemic racism with grassroots actions in every community so that Black liberation becomes a reality and families can thrive.

EXPERTISE: ✶ Radical Philanthropy ✶ Organizational Power Analysis ✶ Public Speaker ✶ Published Author ✶ Facilitation ✶ DEIJ Consulting ✶ Transformative Justice ✶ Coalition Building ✶ Published Author ✶ Leadership Development  ✶ Fundraising  ✶ Social Media ✶  Base Building ✶ Non-Violent Direct Action 

Positions

Done For DiDi, Inc • Executive Director • Sep 2021 to Present • Boston, MA

A community led by Black women and Marginalized Genders (MaGes) to educate white folks on racism and all the other "isms'' while reallocating resources from those with privilege. We fundraise and distribute funds to support cash poor Black artists, women, and gender-noncomforming people who are marginalized by systemic racism, sexism, and intersectional oppression. (EIN: 86-3949548)

The DiDi Delgado Experience, LLC - TheDiDiDelgado.com • Founder, Head Curator, and Radical Visionary • Dec 2017 to Present • Boston, MA

Directs, creates and facilitates anti-racism and anti-oppression education for foundations, nonprofits and corporate clients (Incl. Gates Foundation, Mass Poetry, CREATE Council on the Arts). The DDE team leverages decades of our team’s collective experience in education, community organizing, radical healing and advocacy to provide: 

  • Anti-Oppression Education (Training Curriculums, Learning Communities)

  • DEIJ Assessments and Strategies 

  • Leadership Coaching and Advisory

The Society of Urban Poetry (S.O.U.P.) • Head of Operations • 2014 to Present • Boston, MA

S.O.U.P. seek to do dope poetry with dope people; to shed light on poetry and spoken word as integral pieces of the Boston Creative Arts community; and to foster an inclusive network that embraces all forms of diversity, and aims to bridge divisions that still exist within the poetic community.

Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region - Albany • Chief Executive Assistant • March 2019 to Jan 2021 • Albany, NY

Varied responsibilities included being the CEO’s representative, liaison and assistant in communications with staff, vendors, program partners, board of directors and the public while upholding company confidentiality.

Black Lives Matter Global Network • Community Organizer • Jan 2015 to 2020 • Cambridge, MA

Concurrent Roles: Treasurer, Action Coordinator, Connector, Administrative Team Member and Network Coordinator. Duties have included: 

  • Creating and updating asset maps, power dynamic analyses, connecting BLMC organizers, pod planning groups, and caucuses to outside organizations for effective community organizing.

  • Maintaining a relationship with the larger BLM Network regarding BLMC events and campaigns, ensuring compliance with Network guidelines and expectations, updating BLMC members on Network happenings while maintaining and building partnerships in the larger Movement for Black Lives.

  • Advocating, amplifying, and fundraising for other Black-led and intersectional organizers under extreme duress amidst the Ferguson Uprising, the Flint Water Crisis, the flooding in Baton Rouge, and in Standing Rock.

Workshop Creation and Facilitation

  • “Antiracism Community Series” and “Leadership Sync” for Gates Foundation (2022, Online)

  • “Anti-Racism ABCs: Individual and Collective Workplace Responsibility” for CREATE Council on the Arts, Catskill, New York; Online. (2021, April)

  • “Cultural Awareness Training with DiDi Delgado,” for Center Psychotherapy, Winchester, MA; Online. (2021, April)

  • “Dismantling Racism and All the Other -Isms Because I’m Exhausted and We Gotta Fix This Sh*t”. A Five Session Virtual Training Module and Discussion Forum with Special guests including Fiyah Angel, Sandy Broadus, Debbie Irving, Nandi K, and Shamell Bell, PhD. Online (Jan 2020, July 2020, Aug 2020, Sept 2020, Nov 2020, Dec 2020, Mar 2021). 

  • “Organizing on Safety Pins and Needles w/ Leslie Mac” [Co-Facilitation] Various Locations (Jan, Feb and Apr 2017).  

Public Speaking Engagements, Keynotes and Lectures

Moderator, Keynote Speaker, and Panel Member for various events including:

  • June 2021 Panel Member for NEW Leadership (NEWL) Summer Institute 2021 at University of Massachusetts - Boston.

  • March 2021 “We Built This City - Controversial Conversation” Panel Member for The Palette Cafe.

  • February 2021 “Book Talk Live Event -- In Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo and DiDi Delgago”, Regarding the book release of Mediocre by Oluo, Ijeoma.

  • February 2021 “Transnational Organizing Conversation” Moderator with guests Assefa, Ida and Izquierdo Ugaz, Xime of Boston Ujima Project.

  • January 2021 “The High Price of Incarceration” Moderator with guests Ellis, Sean K. (Subject of Trial 4 Docuseries), Hall, Rahsaan D. (Director of Racial Justice Program of the ACLU of Massachusetts), and Love, Jennifer (Jennifer Love Project)

  • August 2020  “Harvard First-Year Urban Program (FUP) Abolition and Racial Justice Panel”

  • July 2020 “Black Joy and What It Is to be Black in America” Arlington Human Rights Commission  Keynote Speaker

  • November 2019 “Voices Library Lectures Series:  De-Centering the Privileged” Hudson Valley Community College Keynote Speaker

  • May 2019 “YWCA of the Greater Capitol Region presents Debby Iriving: Two-Day Interactive Workshop & Panel” Presenter

  • March 2019 “Feminist Resilience:  Structures & Strategies for Troubled Times,” Northeastern University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Annual Symposium

Poetry, Performance and Writing

DiDi interviews Ijeoma Oluo about Mediocre, at Papercuts Bookshop (ASL interpreters: Ashly + Cheryl), 2021.

Education and Certifications

  • SUNY Empire State College -- Albany, NY

  • Working towards a B.S. in Social Sciences (anticipated graduation:  2022)

  • A.A.S Legal Administration -- Gibbs College, 2004-2008

  • Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) Training Applicant, 2018

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Training, 2018

  • Momentum Training, 2016

Additional Work Experience

  • Unitarian Universalist Association and Black Lives of UU--Boston, MA;
    August 2017-November 2017

  • Action Coordinator, Fight Supremacy March -- Boston, MA;
    August 2017-November 2017

  • Social and Professional Development Coordinator, NAACP--Boston Branch; Boston; February 2015-February 2016

  • Administrative Assistant III, Tufts Health Plan, Inc; Watertown, MA;
    May 2013 - March 2016

  • Committee Co-Chair, ACLU-BCPA; Boston, MA;
    December 2014 - June 2015

  • Assistant to the Director of Residential Services, The Center for Family Support, Inc; Bronx, NY;  May 2008 - April 2013

Podcast episodes and Interviews

The Full Set Podcast

Published Works

Poetry and Activism:

Black Lives Matter and Diversity: