Yaz Mendez Nuñez
Yaz Mendez Nuñez is a queer Caribbean Southerner whose political and spiritual commitments are to love, joy, and the struggle for liberation. They serve as the Co-Executive Director to Soulforce, a national organization whose mission is to end the religious and political oppression of LGBTQI people by sabotaging white Christian Supremacy through relentless nonviolent resistance. Soulforce's theory of change rests on the idea that healing from religious-based trauma and building up Indomitable Spirits across movements will grow in us the agency and resiliency we need to combat ideological violence and win our liberation.