Adiel Suarez-Murias is a queer, Cuban communications bruja who is committed to using her powers in service of social justice and collective liberation.
Professional Vision
Adiel (she/her/ella) brings to her work a guiding belief in the role of strategic communications to build narrative power, and a background in rhetoric and comms theory. She often sees her role as fire tender: keeping dialogues around communications alive within organizations and movements—as culture and current events evolve.
Experience
Adiel is a communications strategist, writer, editor, and wordsmith-at-large. In her consulting practice, she supports liberation-minded organizations and individuals to find their voice, speak their values, and kindle transformation.
Adiel was the first Communications Director for Resonance Network, a network of Black, Indigenous, immigrant, women, femme, trans, and two-spirit people and their co-conspirators, building a world beyond violence. She shaped the network’s narrative framework and public voice, and spearheaded the WeGovern campaign—a set of governance principles aimed at rooting governance practice in mutual care and community.
Adiel also served as U.S. Board Communications Director for URBAN REFUGEES, an international NGO building sustainable solutions to the refugee crisis by partnering directly with city-based refugee leaders across the Global South, and as a writing mentor for We Are Not Numbers (WANN), an organization dedicated to sharing the stories of Palestinian young people in Gaza.
Formerly, Adiel served as Communications & Marketing Director of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), a national network of funders committed to civic engagement and democratic practice, and as former Communications & Development Manager at the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a global network of over 100 organizations working toward sustainable peace and security.
In 2019, she was selected as an American Express NGen Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Root, HuffPost, Alliance Magazine and more.
Education
M.A. in Communication from Wake Forest University, where her research centered on rhetoric, conflict communication, and narrative theory
B.A. in Public Communication; Business Management and Marketing from Florida Atlantic University
About Adiel
Adiel’s lived experience as the eldest daughter of Cuban immigrants (and family rainbow sheep), inspired her love of rhetoric and communications—understanding the evolution of worldviews and the way ideas move, and move people. Throughout her 10+ year career, she has joined most of the organizations she’s worked with as their first comms person—building a communications strategy and organizational voice from scratch. And she loves that.