Full Name
Alejandra Pablos
Job Title
Immigration Rights Organizer & Activist
Speaker Bio
Alejandra Pablos is a reproductive justice community organizer and storyteller at the intersections of mass incarceration and immigration who is also fighting deportation for over ten years now. Ale hopes that her speaking out will help dismantle and ultimately abolish all prisons. Ale also organizes around reproductive justice and abortion advocacy, because it's about autonomy and self determination. Her bold activism in connecting oppressions made her a nationally recognized reproductive rights activists and immigrants rights organizer because she is able to highlight how both abortion access and immigration is criminalized. On December 11th, 2018, she was ordered deported by an immigration judge and is appealing that decision with the support of her deportation defense team. As a result of her experiences, Ale fights not only for herself but for every person that has been and continues to be targeted by ICE (and other U.S. law enforcement agencies). These experiences have also inspired Ale to seek out creative outlets in order to tell her story. For example, she is currently collaborating with DonkeySaddle Productions on a play about her and her family's experience resisting deportation unapologetically. She is also a member of Mijente, Detention Watch Network, the National Council for Formerly and Incarcerated Women and Girls and many more immigrant rights and prison abolition organizations throughout the country where she strategizes to build power . Furthermore, she serves on the advisory board of the Immigrant Justice Network where she seeks to ensure rights for non U.S citizens and inform just policy, like the New Way Forward which breaks apart and shrinks the deportation machine, ensuring people are put first. Ale dreams of our people being free, safe, and with all our needs met. No more fighting and surviving, but thriving.
Alejandra Pablos