Full Name
Amber Cano-Martin
Company
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Speaker Bio
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Amber Cano-Martin is the Learning Coordinator at SEIU International in the Together We Rise department, which was formed to help SEIU locals maintain member strength and density in the face of the 2018 Janus decision and other right to work threats. Prior to that, she worked for 10 years as an Administrative Organizer with 1199SEIU, representing personal care attendants in Holyoke and surrounding areas in Western Massachusetts. Her activism began in the anti-globalization and student anti-sweatshop movement of the early 2000s. She also spent several years living and working in Central America - in Guatemala with a popular education organization that worked in peasant and indigenous communities, and in El Salvador with a solidarity organization. She holds a Masters in International Education from UMass Amherst. She is passionate about using popular education as a tool to strengthen organizations and movements working for social change, making them more democratic by developing the critical thinking and problem solving skills of grassroots leaders. She resides in Amherst, MA with her partner, their two children, and a badly behaved (but cute) dog.
Amber Cano-Martin is the Learning Coordinator at SEIU International in the Together We Rise department, which was formed to help SEIU locals maintain member strength and density in the face of the 2018 Janus decision and other right to work threats. Prior to that, she worked for 10 years as an Administrative Organizer with 1199SEIU, representing personal care attendants in Holyoke and surrounding areas in Western Massachusetts. Her activism began in the anti-globalization and student anti-sweatshop movement of the early 2000s. She also spent several years living and working in Central America - in Guatemala with a popular education organization that worked in peasant and indigenous communities, and in El Salvador with a solidarity organization. She holds a Masters in International Education from UMass Amherst. She is passionate about using popular education as a tool to strengthen organizations and movements working for social change, making them more democratic by developing the critical thinking and problem solving skills of grassroots leaders. She resides in Amherst, MA with her partner, their two children, and a badly behaved (but cute) dog.
