Maggie also enjoys writing, reading, photo-embroidery, photography, collaging and scrapbooking. She loves to spend time with her black gatita, Luna and can stay all night talking with the Moon and Stars. Her favorite place to be is the beach. She likes to cook and spend time in her cozy apartment.
Maggie Loredo (She/Her/Ella) Immigrant Rights Activist and Co-founder of Otros Dreams en Acción (ODA). She was raised undocumented in Texas & Georgia. Maggie was coerced to return to Mexico in 2008. Since her return to México she has contributed to Los Otros Dreamers (2014) and co-authored the introduction to the second edition of the same book in 2021. She is the impact producer for El Digno Retorno (2023) film directed and produced by Jose Eduardo Aguilar. Since 2013, she has organized with people that have experienced deportation and return to Mexico. Along with her community, she advocates for mobility for all through an intersectional, artistic and narrative approach. She has given workshops and conferences in over 40 universities in Mexico and the US. Her work has been featured in national and international media and she has co-authored several publications. In 2015, she co-founded Otros Dreams en Acción (ODA) along with Jill Anderson, a Mexican non-profit organization based in Mexico City. She is also the co-creator of the Pochas So What podcast.
Featured
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To Belong Aquà y Allá, Southern Cultures Vol 23 No. 3 The Women's Issue, 2020
— Maggie Loredo, Perla M. Guerrero
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Retorno Digno: Recommendations towards a Holistic Public Policy of Return to Mexico City, 2021
— Esmeralda Flores, Tyler Kopp, Guadalupe Chavéz, Jill Anderson and Maggie Loredo
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Lxs Otrxs Dreamers, Second Edition Introduction, 2021
— Maggie Loredo, Jill Anderson
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Leave No One Behind: Organizing after Deportation and Forced Return, 2021
— Maggie Loredo, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz
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Los Otros Dreamers, 2014
— Edited Jill Anderson, Photographs Nin Solis
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Fighting for the Right to Come and Go, 2023
By Caroline Tracy, The New Yorker
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Ecologies of Migrant Care, New York City 2018
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Aftermath of Deportation, North Carolina 2017
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Immigrant Identity is "Twin Skin" to Linguistic Identity: Tracing the Afterlife of Deportation in Mexico City
Gretel H. Vera-Rosas & Perla M. Guerrero
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University of Oxford Podcasts: The Aftermath of Forced Return
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