María Torres Wedding
María Torres Wedding (she/her) is the co-creator of Migrantes Unidos, a project that pays asylum seekers to provide peer support and think critically about how to end immigrant detention, including electronic surveillance. She is deeply committed to interdisciplinary work that centers impacted community members in program planning, service delivery, and evaluation. The groundwork for Migrantes Unidos began in her former role as Client Support Services Director and DOJ Accredited Representative at the Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project. Migrantes Unidos is possible through the collaborative partnerships across three St. Louis-based entities: Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and the MICA Project. María holds a Master of Public Health from Washington University in St. Louis. She was born in Monterrey, Mexico and currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri where she provides consulting services.