Although she’s long been involved with Seattle’s social organizing community, Palmira Figueroa doesn’t consider herself an activist. By day, she serves as the development director for environmental sustainability nonprofit Stewardship Partners. Outside of work, Figueroa is “a fighter for social justice.” Most recently, she helped chair the Womxn’s March on Seattle, which led about 175,000 people from Judkins Park to Seattle Center this past Saturday, January 21. The march is now the largest protest in Seattle history.
Although Figueroa considers the march a victory, she knows her work in social organizing is not yet over. “I am aware of the injustice in the world and want to be an agent of change,” she said. “I want to leave a better world than the one I found, a better world for our indigenous people, women, Muslims, immigrants, queer [people], our Mother Earth—a better world for the children.”
