Turn conviction into shared work
A grounded look at what happens after people recognize that something needs to change: how a concern becomes a conversation, a gathering, and a commitment people can keep.
Activist Speaker
Activist Speaker
Emiliana Guereca brings lived experience in advocacy, organizing, and movement-building to events that want to turn shared values into meaningful action.
For gatherings with a purpose
A powerful room can be the beginning of work that lasts.
People do not invite an activist speaker simply to repeat what an audience already believes. They bring someone in when the room is asking bigger questions: What does this moment require of us? How do we invite more people into the work? How do we hold urgency without losing sight of the people affected? A meaningful conversation gives those questions the weight they deserve, then makes space for a next step that feels possible.
Emiliana Guereca brings that perspective from a career spent creating the places where people gather, speak up, and decide what they can do together. As founder of the Women’s March Foundation, she has helped turn public energy into sustained work around advocacy, education, leadership, and care. Her experience spans organizing, event production, media, entrepreneurship, and the patient relationship-building that gives an event a life after the lights come down.
That history matters for an organizer planning a civic forum, nonprofit event, campus program, leadership gathering, or community conversation. Audiences do not need a performance of certainty. They need an honest account of what collective action asks of people: the willingness to listen, the courage to speak, the discipline to build trust, and the care to keep returning when attention moves elsewhere.
Emiliana speaks to those realities without flattening everyone in the room into one story. A student finding a public voice, an organizer carrying a campaign, a leader trying to bring a team together, and a community member who has been let down by institutions may all hear the same conversation differently. Her approach respects that range while staying close to the choices that help people move from concern to participation.
For event planners, that creates a program with substance. Emiliana can name the stakes without asking people to arrive with every answer. She helps a room consider how its values show up in relationships, public life, and the work people are willing to carry together. The goal is not a bigger moment for its own sake. It is a conversation that gives people language for what they are facing and a clearer sense of their own role in what comes next.
Talk themes
Make room for the truth, then make room for action.
Each program can be shaped around the people gathered, the work already underway, and the kind of participation your community wants to make possible.
Build a room people can enter
How organizers create spaces that welcome lived experience, invite honest participation, and give more people a reason to see themselves in the work.
Keep the work human
A conversation about courage, care, and the relationships that help a public moment become something a community can carry forward.
Built in the work
She understands the work behind the microphone.
Emiliana knows that a gathering can create energy, connection, and a renewed sense of possibility. The harder question comes afterward: how do people carry that energy into the relationships, decisions, and practices that make a community stronger? Her speaking brings that question into focus because she has spent years building both the public moment and the longer work around it.
Through the Women’s March Foundation, Emiliana has helped create a lasting home for women’s advocacy, leadership, education, and action in Los Angeles. Her public work has also brought her into conversation with universities, civic groups, community organizations, and cultural institutions, including Cal State LA, USC, UCLA, the League of Women Voters, Politicon, and the HOPE Conference.
That breadth gives her a useful range as a speaker. She can speak to people who are new to public participation alongside people carrying real responsibility for a team, a cause, or a community. Her experience makes room for frustration and uncertainty without treating either as a reason to stand still.
For audiences, that means more than a biography. Emiliana can connect a personal story to the systems people are trying to change, while bringing the conversation back to practical choices: who gets invited in, how responsibility is shared, how difficult conversations are held, and what helps a community keep going.
Ways to gather
Build the program around the conversation your audience needs now.
Start with the purpose of the event, the people in the room, and the question you want them to carry into the next part of the work.
Keynotes
Open a conference, civic forum, nonprofit gathering, campus program, or community event with a direct conversation about advocacy, leadership, and what people can build together.
Fireside conversations
Bring Emiliana into dialogue with an organizer, educator, executive, journalist, or community leader for a focused exchange shaped around the questions in front of your audience.
Panels and public forums
Add a movement-builder’s perspective to a larger discussion on women’s leadership, public life, representation, community care, advocacy, or civic participation.
Leadership and community programs
Give emerging leaders, volunteers, advocates, and community members an honest view of how ideas become work that people can join and sustain.
A conversation with direction
Help people recognize that their participation can matter.
Activism is often described through its biggest moments: a rally, a headline, a powerful speech, or a public turning point. Those moments matter, but they are not the whole story. The work also lives in the invitation that brings someone into a room, the conversation that helps people understand one another, and the decision to stay accountable when the moment becomes more complicated.
Emiliana’s perspective is especially relevant for gatherings exploring advocacy, women in public life, immigrant stories, reproductive freedom, civic participation, representation, coalition-building, entrepreneurship, and community care. These are not distant topics in her work. They are questions she has navigated through public events, advocacy, media, and relationships with people doing the work on the ground.
For an organizer, that leads to a more useful kind of event. Rather than leaving people with a vague call to care more, the conversation can help them consider how they want to participate. Some audience members may be ready to lead a project or speak in public. Others may be ready to learn from a local group, support a neighbor, bring someone else into the conversation, or make a contribution they can sustain. Each role can matter.
Emiliana brings a direct, generous approach to that choice. She can help a room see that change is not reserved for the loudest person or the person with the most formal power. It is built by people who keep making the table bigger, stay connected to the people affected, and choose a next step with enough care behind it to last.
Plan your event →Frequently asked questions
Planning an event with purpose?
What does Emiliana speak about as an activist speaker?
Emiliana speaks about advocacy, women’s leadership, civic participation, community-building, coalition-building, representation, and the practical work of moving from a shared concern to meaningful action. Her perspective comes from building events, public spaces, advocacy programs, and relationships that help people keep showing up.
What events are a good fit?
Emiliana is a strong fit for civic forums, nonprofit gatherings, social impact conferences, college programs, cultural institutions, employee groups, women’s leadership events, public panels, and community conversations. The best programs bring people together around a question that deserves both honesty and a useful way forward.
Can the program be shaped around our audience?
Yes. Share the people you are bringing together, the setting, the conversation you want to hold, and what you want people to carry forward. The strongest program begins with the room in front of it.
How do we invite Emiliana to speak?
Use the invitation form to share your event date, location, audience, format, and goals. Emiliana’s team will review the request and follow up about availability and next steps.
Your gathering
Bring Emiliana into the conversation.
Share your event, audience, and the question you want people to carry forward.
Invite Emiliana