WFPSC Staff
Liz Hacker
Lukasz Firla
Jalileh Garcia
Jessica Garcia
Natalia Fajardo
Tirzah Villegas
Felipe Preciado
Board Members
Georie Bryant
Liz Hacker
James Doernberg
The Solidarity Collective is an independent organization and does not interfere with the work of our partner organizations. However, we find ourselves constantly inspired by them: their commitment, their vision, and their grassroots movements. Above are some of those partners, both from Latin America and the U.S.
OUR TEAM
COLOMBIA PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Jessica Garcia (she/her)
colombia@solidaritycollective.org
Jessica joined the Solidarity Collective in August 2021. Jessica is from northern Argentina and has lived in Colombia for two years. During this time she lived in Barrancabermeja (Colombia), where she provided international accompaniment to rural peasant and feminist movements in Colombia’s northeastern border. Previously, she was an international accompanier to Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley, Palestine. There she learned the importance of international solidarity between peoples. She has a degree in International Relations from the National University of Rosario and has been involved in various civil society organizations in Rosario (Argentina) working on Human Rights, international solidarity and anti-colonial struggles.
NATIONAL DIRECTOR
Tirzah Villegas (she/her)
tirzah@solidaritycollective.org
Tirzah worked as the Southeast Regional Director from 2022 to June 2024 at which point, she stepped into the role of National Director. Her formal studies are in Fine Arts and Divinity studies. In both practices, she has explored and worked practically in communities around themes of solidarity, liberative spiritual practice, and decolonial aesthecis. She is most interested in creating spaces that allow for people across a variety of spiritual disciplines to engage in spiritual practices that offer liberation from imperialist and colonialist structures. Tirzah also enjoys trees and dancing.
CUBA PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Natalia Fajardo (She/Her)
cuba@solidaritycollective.org
Natalia Fajardo has organized across borders and sectors for twenty years. Growing up in Colombia, then migrating to the United States, she has worked for students, farmers and farmworkers rights; neighborhood power, and to build unity across languages. She likes to plant things and ride a bike.
COLOMBIA PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Lukasz Firla (he/him)
colombia@solidaritycollective.org
Lukasz joined Solidarity Collective in Colombia in June 2023 after a twelve-year engagement with peacemaking and grassroots solidarity work in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he documented human rights violations, accompanied human rights defenders and advocated for the protection of subsistence farming and pastoral communities resisting military occupation and bombardments. Coming from the Silesian people divided by artificial borders, Lukasz has been building solidarity with anti-colonial struggles in Eastern Europe, Kurdistan and Latin America for 16 years. He loves facilitating workshops on nonviolent intervention and undoing oppressions, and beyond work, he climbs big rocks and makes loud music.
Honduras Program Co-Director
Felipe Preciado, (El/He)
felipe@solidaritycollective.org
Feli es músico, teólogo y administrador agropecuario. Actualmente está terminando su Maestría en Liderazgo para la Transformación con Bakke Graduate University y CETI Continental. Ha vivido y trabajado en diversos ámbitos en el mundo de las ONG. Entre 2018 y 2021, estuvo en Benín, África Occidental, acompañando el programa agropecuario de La Casa Grande, y en 2022, acompañó a Voluntarios de Servicio Internacional en Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Felipe es un apasionado del apoyo mutuo, la solidaridad y los pueblos campesinos, realidades que disfruta acompañar.
Feli is a musician, theologian, and agricultural manager. He is currently completing his Master's in Transformational Leadership at Bakke Graduate University and CETI Continental. He has lived and worked in various fields within the NGO world. Between 2018 and 2021, he was in Benin, West Africa, supporting the agropastoral program of La Casa Grande, and in 2022, he accompanied International Service Volunteers in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Felipe is passionate about mutual support, solidarity, and campesino communities, realities he enjoys accompanying.