Please welcome our new abortion support trainer - Dora ‘Zeliatl’ Martinez - who will be facilitating Capstone this Sunday! 

Dora ‘Zeliatl’ Martinez (Ella/she/her)
Yoeme & Tlamanalcah 

Dora is a proud indigena from Yaqui and Tlamanalcah lineages. 

She is a cultural worker and community (re)organizer based in Tohono O'odham and Yaqui territory. 

She is a mother of 6 children, including one earthside, Cehualli.

All 6 children have guided this journey and now her life’s work.

In 2013 she found herself pregnant for the first time and living out of her car. 

Knowing she had options she reached out to her community and realized how deeply rooted abortion stigma was.

Dora went on to host community conversations about her experience navigating her release in Southern Arizona. She invited people over to co-learn about the abortion landscape, watched films on related topics, body literacy workshops, listening sessions with local experts, etc. This stage of her research and bringing her community along with her was vital and led to major cultural shifts in her local area (and beyond). 

These shifts included the development of AB doulas in Tucson, building relationships with local providers, shifting the narrative around abortion, and ultimately the formation of the Tucson Abortion Support Collective (TASC) which she is a very proud co-founder of. 

TASC is a Tucson-based collective providing emotional, informational, material, and logistical support to people seeking abortion care in Arizona. During the pandemic, TASC became one of the largest abortion funds in Arizona with 100% volunteer labor and 100% of the proceeds going to support clients directly with their abortion needs.

These days Dora spends both her paid and unpaid time focused on making space for folks looking to release their pregnancy outside of the clinical setting. 

In 2018 Dora founded Liminal Tides, a 5 year study project that included the development of a network that aims to bring Black and Indigenous healers, providers and cultural workers together to share and further develop better support practices for abortion seekers of the global majority.

We are so grateful to share space with you! Welcome!