Freddy Jesse Izaguirre is a Náhuat descendant artist from El Salvador. His essays, photos, and poetry have been featured in the Houston Review of Books, GEN, PAPER, Sad Girls Club, LatinX.com, Basic Brown Nerds, LEVEL, and La Horchata Magazine.

He’s graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Theater and alumni of Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theater Program in Oakland, CA. His performances include the Bay Area’s historic Lunada Festival, Undocufest, El Comalito Collective, Teatro Visión, and the Bay Area Children’s Theater. In 2019 he was the keynote speaker for Columbia University/Barnard College’s Latinx Heritage Festival “Compartiendo Sin Filtro.”

In the mid ‘80s Freddy and his family left El Salvador for the Pacific Northwest. He grew up in Washington State, and lived undocumented in the US for 31 years—until 2017–when he became a naturalized citizen.

Currently, he lives in NYC (occupied Lenape territory). You can follow him on IG @pursuingarete & @freddyjesse via Twitter.