Tomás Garduño

Tomás Garduño is Director of Mass Base Organizing for Southwest Organizing Project. Tomás is a 30 year-old, Native New Mexican Chicano, born and raised in Albuquerque, Nuevo Mexico. His family is from Nambé, New Mexico (the border crossed us we didn’t cross the border). He lived in Portland, OR for seven years where he did student organizing and anti-racist organizing in the anti-globalization movement culminating in the WTO protests in Seattle, and has been doing social justice work ever since. He has worked for Western States Center, Community Alliance of Tenants, and co-founded ‘ROOTS! Reclaiming Our Origins Through Struggle, a racial justice organization.  Most recently he was a campaign organizer with the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice. He is also a traditional organic farmer.