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Social Worker and Community Leader
About Felipe Martinez
In 2019, after leading a coalition that halted the deportation of 17 families in East Boston through coordinated legal intervention and neighborhood sanctuary mapping, Felipe began documenting oral histories not as evidence, but as relational infrastructure. He doesn’t run workshops on 'how to assimilate'; instead, he co-designs bilingual mutual-aid calendars with elders and teens, embedding immigration policy timelines alongside local harvest dates and feast days. His office isn’t in a government building but inside a repurposed laundromat where case management happens between spin cycles and shared coffee. He treats language access not as translation but as epistemic repair, reclaiming terms like 'coyote' or 'papers' through community-led glossaries that track how meaning shifts across generations. His philosophy rejects integration as absorption; it’s about thickening the ground beneath people so they can stand, argue, build, and grieve together without permission.
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- “How did the East Boston laundromat office change your approach to confidentiality?”
- “What’s one policy term you’ve redefined with community input—and why?”
- “Can you walk me through how you map 'sanctuary' beyond buildings?”
- “How do harvest calendars become tools for immigrant advocacy?”