Delia Perez Meyer was born in Texas and has lived in Austin most of her life. She comes from a large and musically accomplished family and has a background in bilingual education, cultural arts, international business, and human rights activism. Delia earned her BA in Spanish & International Business and a masters’ in Business Administration and is currently a candidate for her Ph.D. After Delia’s brother, Louis Perez, ended up on death row, she has worked tirelessly with the Texas Moratorium Network, Texas Abolition Movement to Abolish the Death Penalty, Amnesty International, the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, the National Campaign to End the Death Penalty, the Abolition Action Committee, and others to help educate the public about wrongful convictions and restorative justice. She has also produced death row inmates’ art shows to showcase her brother’s art as well as the art of other death row inmates.
A PDF of Delia's slides can be found here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/fk4plwfmrn9o6vt/Art%26Activism_Jane_UU.pdf?dl=0
An image of her lion art can be found here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/h35wx5at9hty0hi/lion.jpg?dl=0