Anna Marín

Board Director

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Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Joined: 2023

Berwyn Resident

Anna moved to Berwyn 2015 and has been a fierce community advocate since then. She co-founded Berwyn Community Action/Berwyn Comunidad en Acción and sat on the Berwyn Awake board for several years. In Berwyn, she worked to raise the issue of police racial profiling, served as a campaign strategist for a slate of progressive aldermanic candidates, and dispersed Covid aid to neighbors. She also served as the co-chair of the United Way of Metro Chicago Neighborhood Network in Cicero (Cicero Community Collaborative). Anna attended the University of Texas at Austin in a PhD program (ABD) and received multiple fellowships to study language and social movements in Brazil and Egypt. She received an MA in Comparative Literature at San Diego State University and a BA in Secondary English Education at DePaul University. She is bilingual in English/Spanish and has some fluency in Portuguese. Anna appreciates the arts and humanities as critical avenues of self- and community-expression. She is thrilled to be a board member of BPAI.