Interview with Nico Amador

An interview with Nico Amador, a Latinx trans man, community organizer, trainer, educator, and writer based in Vermont. At the time of this interview, he was the Director of Operations at People's Hub, an online movement school and training hub, and was also pursuing an MFA at Bennington College's Writing Seminars. Prior to his time in Vermont, Amador worked as director of Training for Change, a Philadelphia-based organization proving trainings and education to people engaging in direct action and working in grassroots organizations, and took part in several campaigns for trans justice broadly, including ending discriminatory policies on Philadelphia's public transportation system and helping to develop the grantmaking model of the Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP.) In this oral history interview, Amador discusses his upbringing outside of San Diego and politicization in community with other students of color at UC Santa Barbara, his work with the Fellowship of Reconciliation and how it led him into training and education work, his thoughts on nonprofits and philanthropy and their relationship to social movements, and his work with Training for Change and the Trans Justice Funding Project's Fund for Trans Generations. Additionally, he discusses his experiences in trans communities in Philadelphia and his work on ending discriminatory policy there, and his background as a poet and performer.

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Identifier: xp68kg545
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Amador, Nico
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Jan. 22, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Fund for Trans Generations
Trans Justice Funding Project
Places: Pennsylvania > Philadelphia County > City of Philadelphia > Philadelphia
California > San Diego
Vermont > Bennington County > Town of Bennington > Bennington
Topic(s): Latino/a/x transgender people
LGBTQ+ discrimination
Trans men
Transgender authors
Transgender community
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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