Mariela Gómez is an organizer at the Long Beach office of Californians for Justice (CFJ), a statewide grassroots organization working with youth and parents to fight for racial justice in education. Mariela is a graduate of the Center for Third World Organizing’s intensive Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program. During the program she was based at Action for Grassroots Empowerment and Neighborhood Development Alternatives (AGENDA), where she organized poor people of color around healthcare issues.
