Tony Macias (he/him) is a native of the U.S. South, and an interpreter/translator and popular education trainer with over 20 years of experience in the labor, migration, and international solidarity sectors. Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) gave him his first chance to practice leadership in a transparent, strategic and collaborative way, and where he first understood the potential of cross-class and multigenerational collaboration to win human rights for farmworkers. Later, Tony was an International Team Member with Witness for Peace in Mexico, and served as one of the coordinators of the 2010 US Social Forum Language Justice Team. He went on to complete a master’s degree in Latin American Studies, and co-founded the Austin Language Justice Collective, the tilde Language Justice Cooperative, and Wave – A Language Liberation Hub. Tony is convinced that solidarity is the natural state of affairs, and is nurtured when we form relationships across differences to build the power we need to achieve a common purpose.