Salvador was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His family is from El Salvador. His parents fled El Salvador during its civil war where an oppressive government was murdering unarmed non-combatant citizens.
He served in the United States Army as a combat medic for 8 years and then worked as an In-home tutor for children with Autism.
He worked in the Emergency Room as an ER Tech for 10 years. It was here that his values lead him to advocate as a Spanish interpreter for Language Justice and Healthcare Justice in the Emergency Department.
Now his priorities are his family and the work that he does at the Tenants Union of Washington State.
Areas of work include: Education and Empowering of English and Spanish speaking Tenants to know and exercising their tenants rights. He helps communities organize to demand equity, and housing justice. He advocates for tenant rights in local government and hopes to advocate state wide for tenants rights.
(Los Angeles, California was ancestrally home to the Tongva and Tataviam people. The Tonva and Tataviam were American Indians who were removed from their lands and displaced through governmental policies of settler colonialism. (https://mila.ss.ucla.edu)
