A Cry for Freedom
A Cry for Freedom is a visual protest against the Trump regime’s violation of due process for the 238 men they disappeared to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador. When the administration announces that some people are not deserving of due process, there is no longer due process for any of us.
Conceived and Directed by Paola Mendoza
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THE NATION
At the steps of the Statue of Liberty on Sunday, I organized more than 50 people to turn our grief into a collective demand: Free the 238 men unlawfully disappeared into CECOT.
Women's March
As a co-founder and Artistic Director of the Women’s March, Paola was instrumental in mobilizing over 5 million people to the streets on January 21st, 2017.
With over 653 marches in the United States alone the Women’s March was the largest single day protest in the history of the United States.
#TogetherWeRise
Trans Prom
Trans and Non-Binary youth came together in Washington DC to celebrate themselves and the freedom, imagination and magic they bring to the world.
#TransProm
Doctors for Abortion Access
Paola was a lead organizer demanding an end to the current and future criminalization of doctors and health care providers who perform lifesaving abortion care.
#DoctorsForAbortionAccess
I Am A Child - Civil Disobedience
Paola organized a group of children in an act of civil disobedience in the Hart Senate Building. The children were demanding an end to child separation on the Southern border.
Immigrants Are Essential
Immigrants are Essential bears witness to the lives of Fedelina, Mario, Moisés, Yimel, Juan, Ofelia and Guadalupe. Just seven out of tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were taken too soon by COVID pandemic. They gave up so much leaving their home countries and coming to a place that didn’t always welcome them. They fought so bravely to make a better future for their families.
Rosa's Miracle
In 2018, Rosa began a seemingly impossible journey with her four children. She joined over 7,000 people and walked from Honduras to the United States’ southern border. While she walked through sand storms, deserts, over freezing mountains and through raging rivers the world watched in rapt attention with their mouths agape.
Rosa’s Miracle is a retelling of her journey to the United States told through spectacularly beautiful images steeped in dignity and celebration.
Mourner's Walk
Last October New Yorkers came together to mourn those we had lost. The creative action consisted of artists and activists walking through Jackson Heights, Queens — the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City.
In the Fall of 2020 New Yorkers came together to mourn those we had lost to COVID. The creative action consisted of artists and activists walking through Jackson Heights, Queens — the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City. We recited thousands of people’s names. Holding space for those who left us too soon.
I Am A Child
The world was outraged and the photos quickly went viral on social media with the quote:
“A child is a child no matter what country they were born in.
A child is a child even when they cross the border.
A child's desire to stay with their parents is a human right.
In homage to the iconic I AM A MAN photo.
I am proud to present I AM A CHILD.”
In June 2018, Paola Mendoza conceived and was the creative director for the I AM A CHILD campaign. She created the campaign to protest the Trump Administration’s ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Inspired by Ernest Withers’ photograph from 1968 of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, the initial I AM A CHILD photo shoot with photographer, Kisha Bari and producer Becky Morrison occurred in New York City on the steps of Immigration and Customs Enforcement building featuring 40 children, ages three to ten.
