Amalia Anderson

Amalia Anderson is program director for the Main Street Project. She has more than 13 years of experience in community and cultural organizing and community education, with a specific focus on human rights and anti-racism education, cultural rights and the production of knowledge, and movement building. During the 2004 election cycle, Anderson was the national director for Latino outreach for National Voice. Following the election, she created the Latino Leadership Project, currently a program of the Main Street Project. Regionally, Anderson is on the Minnesota steering committee of the National Lawyers Guild; is a member of the Social Change Grant Committee of the Headwaters Foundation; and is on the leadership team of MAG-net. Nationally, she serves on the boards of the Indigenous Women's Network and the Progressive Majority's Racial Justice Advisory. She is also a field representative with the American Indian Treaty Council and an anchor organization steering committee member of the National Media Justice Network. Anderson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in urban studies and history from Macalester College and her Juris Doctorate from Hamline University School of Law.