Episode 4, June 28, 2025
Arnoldo García
poet, musician, visual artist, human rights organizer, restorative justice practitioner/trainer
Arnoldo García is a community-based poet, musician, visual artist, human rights organizer and a dedicated restorative justice practitioner/trainer. He has migrant roots that stretch from south Texas to the Pacific Northwest and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
His work has addressed broad issues and struggles for migrant and racial justice, restorative community, against capitalist borders, on landless Chicano/Xicana mexicanidad in the United States, and solidarity with Indigenous land justice movements. His work is influenced by working class and Indigenous artists. Originally from south Texas, Arnoldo was raised in a Mexican-Purépecha-rooted migrant farmworker family and became a farmworker labor rights and education rights activist while in middle school. His experiences in youth and farmworker organizing led him to become active in protecting the rights of the foreign born and the undocumented.Arnoldo is focusing on creating and performing new social justice music, paintings and writes both poetry and non-fiction essays. He is supporting and training members of school communities and community groups with restorative practices to strengthen relationships rooted in shared values of equity and justice. Arnoldo offers RJ and organizational development trainings in English and Spanish to build intergenerational multiracial leadership for self-determination, racial justice and sustainable community.
