mara (Maraliz Salgado) is the mama of Moisés, Lorena, F.L.Y. L.I.B.R.E. Publications and Libérate Coaching, LLC, where she relishes in the sacred honor of walking fellow womxn of color back home to freedom through life transitions such as role misalignment, burnout, and relational and identity shifts. She’s a liberatory educator, facilitator, coach, consultant, author and speaker with over twenty-five years of dedicated service to Chicago students, teachers, families, education leaders and now sister-clients all over the country.

A seasoned racial healing practitioner and circle keeper, mara has also engaged youth, parent mentors, and school/community/non-profit leaders through racial equity coaching and post-secondary purpose coaching/consulting. Her work is values-based, POC solidarity-centered, holistic and transformational, incorporating strategic goal- setting, soulful, connected accountability partnership, reiki and indigenous Boricua/Taíno healing practices.

She infuses her co-authored book F.L.Y. L.I.B.R.E.: A Guide for Healing and Liberation and its signature L.I.B.R.E. framework (Liberatory Mindset, Integration, Belonging, Radical Responsibility and Embodiment) as a guide for life and work. Whether 1:1 or in group settings, she helps to cultivate genuine (decolonial) wellness and reignite folks’ passion for justice, starting with self, in beloved guaitiao (community). mara is a fan of the deep dive and is profoundly empathic, unapologetically authentic, a proud native of Borikén, loving wife to her sexy Mexi and an adoring Mama to two precious seeds. She is a learner, lover and seeker… and you can find her anywhere there’s community, cultura, and healing to be had in the city and far beyond.