Sheila Quintana Aguilar is a writer and strategist. With 15 years of experience in social justice movements, she has held roles in communications, political strategy, organizing, and fundraising. 

Sheila co-led a historic campaign for sanctuary resulting in the first ever Congressional bill in defense of an immigrant family from Pennsylvania. She has supported dozens of non-profits and small businesses to develop strategy, infrastructure, and capacity. Sheila has helped clients raise over 2 million dollars to resource their work. She was a founding worker-owner of the Bonfire Media Collective and a founding member of the Movement for Migrant Leaders in Pennsylvania.

Sheila is a Data X Power Movement Tech Fellow with Re:power (2023), an inaugural Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + Activist in Residence (2022), an alum of the VONA writers workshop, and a recipient of the Artist Leadership Award by the Center for Cultural Power. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is a candidate for a Certificate in Novel Writing by the Creative Writing Program at the Stanford School of Continuing Studies.