About
Nico Amador is a writer, popular educator and community organizer from San Diego, currently living in rural Vermont. His prior work has included efforts to fight mass incarceration, win a living wage and end a public transportation system policy that discriminated against trans and non-binary passengers in Philadelphia. As a trainer and facilitator, he’s led hundreds of workshops to promote skills and analysis among people using direct action and other grassroots strategies to create social change in the U.S. and abroad.
Amador’s writing has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. His chapbook, Flower Wars, was selected as the winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and was published by Newfound Press in 2017. He holds an MFA from Bennington College, is a grant recipient of the Vermont Arts Council and an alumni of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Writers Retreat.
Photo by Luis Gaspar