Co-Executive Director
Yaz Mendez Nuñez is a Southern activist and artist, with roots spread in Virginia, North Carolina, and the Caribbean. Yaz manages our fundraising and grant writing, and coordinates the organization’s communications strategy for base building & narrative development. Prior to joining Soulforce, Yaz served as a campaign organizer and popular education facilitator with Southerners On New Ground and Wayside Center for Popular Education, working on projects pertaining to municipal accountability in policing methods and resiliency in Queer Youth of Color. Yaz holds a Bachelors of Arts in Geography from the University of Richmond, and their academic background is focused in studying and cultivating community sovereignty + self-governance, specifically geospatial data imaging for equity and social justice.
