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Gloria Perez-Walker
Gloria Perez-Walker is a special education legal advocate, activist, and community
organizer.
At the age of 23--with her baby
boy on her hip, she founded a grassroots organization for Latina women called Latina Mami in Austin, Texas. She hosted Latina
Mami's "Mamis of Color" radio show, for 8 years on KOOP 91.7 FM in Austin, and served on the KOOP Board of Directors. She
has worked on immigrant rights and reproductive justice issues, especially as they affect working class women.
She was named one
of Austin's "10 Most Loved Women" by Austin Monthly Magazine and
was featured in Latina Magazine as an "Inspiring Latina". She has also been named an Ernst and Young's Social Entrepreneur
of the Year finalist.
She has worked as
a community organizer with the ACLU, Industrial Areas Foundation, and as a parent advocate in many capacities. She now
works privately and with attorneys on special education and disability cases throughout Texas and California. She still
has a hand in Latina Mami, and is currently interviewing women on our decade of organizing and writing a case model for her
work so that it can be replicated by grassroots groups in other a reas.
She speaks frequently
on disability, special education, combating zero tolerance laws, the School to Prison Pipeline, community organizing, and
race and parenting, and divorce and the special needs family. She also hosts the "Special Ed for Busy Parents" radio show and the new "Mamis Of Color"
podcast for Latina Mami.
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