Maraliz Salgado

Surge alum Maraliz Salgado (CHI18) is the founder of Libérate Life Coaching, LLC, where she helps fellow womxn of color evolve through life transitions, role misalignment, burnout, relational rifts and identity shifts, finding it to be a sacred honor to walk her sisters back home to their freedom. She is a liberatory educator, facilitator, and coach with over twenty years of dedicated service to Chicago students, teachers, and families.

As a seasoned racial healing practitioner, Mara has engaged youth, mentors, and school, community and NPO leaders of color through healing circles, racial equity coaching, group coaching/team culture building, post-secondary purpose coaching, and ethnic studies curriculum consulting. Her style is values-based, holistic, and transformational and can include strategic goal-setting, accountability partnership, and decolonial/indigenous healing practices.