Susana Almanza

Susana Almanza is a founding member and Co-Director of PODER (People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources), a grassroots environmental, economic and social justice organization in Austin, Texas. Susana has overcome poverty, prejudice, and segregated schools to face down some of the world’s most powerful transnational corporations. Susana is a longtime community organizer, educator, mother and grandmother. Susana participated in the civil rights movement as a Brown Beret, taking up issues of police brutality, quality education and equity in school systems and health care as a right, not a privilege.