Ileia Burgos

"Ileia Burgos is a Wildfire core trainer and an ally organizing residents in the Rockaways around disaster preparedness and a community-led recovery from Hurricane Sandy. Ileia began as a youth environmental activist-artist at The Point CDC and later worked as an education organizer at Mothers On the Move in the South Bronx. She has worked as an organizer for MoveOn, field manager for the Fund for Public Interest Research, and as an anti-discrimination trainer with LGBT youth at Project Reach. Ileia is part of the [[Without Walls Educators Collective]and teaches at high schools throughout New York City."