Our Team
Mujeres de Maiz depends on our team to lead our vision and mission.
In addition, we have various committees, circles, and volunteers that make Mujeres de Maiz happen.
Felicia montes, Director
Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes is a Xicana Indigenous (Raramuri) artist, activist, community & event organizer, educator, emcee, designer, poet, performer, professor and wellness practitioner living and working in the Los Angeles area. She is known throughout the southwest as an established Xicana cultural worker of a new generation. She believes art is a tool for education, empowerment and transformation and has translated her passion for art and social justice as the cofounder and coordinating member of two groundbreaking creative women’s groups, Mujeres de Maiz and In Lak Ech, as well as the online one stop cultura shop, El MERCADO y Mas.
Felicia holds a B.A from UCLA in World Arts and Cultures with a minor in Chicana/o/x Studies, a M.A in Chicana/o/x Studies from Cal State Northridge, and an M.F.A from Otis College of Art & Design in Public Practice Art. She currently serves as the founding director of Mujeres de Maiz and is an Assistant Professor of Chicanx Latinx arts and Social Practice within the Chicana/o/x Latina/o/x Studies at Cal State Long Beach. Check her out at www.feliciamontes.com
EMaIL: felicia@mujeresdemaiz.com
Claudia Mercado, Documentarian
Co-founder and primary documentarian of Mujeres de Maiz, born and raised in Highland Park, Los Angeles, Claudia is an independent filmmaker currently in development of the Mujeres de Maiz documentary. As a writer, producer, director and editor, she has exhibited her films throughout the U.S. in art houses, universities, museums, film festivals and online. She graduated from UC Berkeley with BA in Film Studies and holds a MFA in Film, Television and Theater from Cal State University Los Angeles. She currently is a lecturer within the Chicana/o/x Latina/o/x Studies department at Cal State LA.
Our Board of Directors
Amber Rose González, Ph.D
Amber is a Apache-Chicana educator-scholar-activist-mother and Professor of Ethnic Studies at Fullerton College. She received her BA in Gender, Ethnicity and Multicultural Studies from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She received her MA and PhD in Chicana/Chicano Studies with an emphasis in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Adrian Zamora, J.D.
Adrian is an independent attorney working in the Los Angeles area. He earned his BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law.