Bio
Alejandra Pablos is reproductive justice community organizer and storyteller at the intersections of mass incarceration and immigration who is also fighting deportation for 9 years now. On December 11th, 2018 she was ordered deported by an immigration judge and is appealing that decision with the support of her deportation defense team. The #KeepAleFree campaign was born out of a crisis and continues out of love in order to build nationwide power through narrative shifting that centers on cultural work and storytelling in hopes of creating pathways of protection for criminalized people. The #KeepAleFree Deportation Defense Campaign is made up of Ale’s sister-friends and organizers who offer emotional, technical, and strategy support.
Alejandra's case first went viral when she was re-detained by Immigration Customs Enforcement for 43 days in 2018. She was granted bond and brought home, but only after communities nationwide organized to bring her home. Growing up in Arizona, one of the toughest sentencing and over-policed states has informed her activism and fueled her community work. Alejandra is a storyteller with We Testify where she shares her abortion story as an act of resistance and liberation. She is also a member of Mijente, Detention Watch Network, the National Council for Formerly and Incarcerated Women and Girls, and many more immigrant rights and prison abolition organizers throughout the country. She is currently collaborating with DonkeySaddle Productions on a playwright about her experience resisting deportation and disposability. She serves on the advisory board of the Immigrant Justice Network where she seeks to ensure rights for non-U.S citizens and inform just policy, like the New Way Forward which breaks apart and shrinks the deportation machine. She holds a bachelor's in Communications from the University of Arizona. Their work and writing has been featured in Teen Vogue, Elle, NPR, Democracy Now, Colorlines, ReWire News, and many more. You can follow her journey to Abolish ICE and her own deportation case at KeepAleFree.org
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