Jeanette Charles Márquez, (she/her) is a proud daughter of the Haitian Diaspora and German working-class immigration, born and raised in Los Angeles. She is a doctoral candidate and Fulbright Fellow in Afro-Atlantic, Latin American and the Caribbean History at the University of California, Los Angeles where she also received her MA. She is lead producer of the forthcoming documentary Salsa, un tumbao’ caribeño (post) for which she was awarded the Women in Film (WIF) Creative Documentary Producer Fellowship for 2023-2024. Her other projects include: Más Salsa Que Podcast (production), Spirit & Liberation Podcast (pre-production) and We Rise, Docu-Report (completed).

Jeanette is also a long-time international solidarity activist and delegation coordinator, community organizer, language justice interpreter, writer/editor, and independent journalist (in print, radio, and television). Additionally, she has experience in program management, non-profit development and grant-writing, as well as strategic planning design. Jeanette is a certified life coach and the founder of Ìyá Global. Her signature program “In Spirit & In Struggle” is a collective coaching container that bridges African and Indigenous cosmological teachings with lessons in liberatory political practice.