Monica Curca is a peacebuilder, artist, and Participatory Action Research facilitator and filmmaker. She is the Director of PlusPeace, founder of the storytelling non-profit Activate Labs and holds dual Master’s degrees in Sustainable International Development and Conflict and Coexistence from Brandeis. She works to build trauma healing spaces with migrant families along routes of the “refugee caravan” in Guatemala, Mexico, and in US immigration detention.