Amanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis is a writer, researcher, and activist. Her book of collected writings Binhi ng Paglaya (Seeds of Liberation) was published by Gantala Press and the Free Amanda Echanis Movement in 2023. Read More Formerly executive director of the Urban Poor Resource Center of the Philippines, she was an organizer for the Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women before her arrest in 2020. Echanis is the 2023 awardee of the Southeast Asian Translation Mentorship, facilitated by the seams translators’ collective and Ethos Books, and is a fellow of the prestigious Palihang Rogelio Sicat, an annual national workshop for creative writing.