Lulu Matute

Lulu Matute is the Organizing Coordinator for School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), a U.S.-based interfaith organization committed to nonviolent resistance against war and militarization since 1989. In collaboration with diverse communities and international partners, she has organized delegations of U.S. lawmakers, advocates, medical professionals, students, and cultural workers to witness firsthand the consequences of U.S. foreign and immigration policies in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and Central America. These efforts highlight the root causes of migration—including displacement, economic inequality, and state violence—as well as the devastating effects of border militarization across the hemisphere.

Rooted in SOAW’s legacy, Lulu works alongside grassroots movements in Latin America resisting U.S.-backed militarization, privatization, and the displacement of Indigenous and campesino communities. Since 2016, she has also volunteered in the borderlands, providing humanitarian aid, emergency medical services, and search-and-rescue support to migrants in crisis, upholding the principle that all lives deserve dignity and protection.