Marco Saavedra is an artist and works at his parent's restaurant in New York City, La Morada. He is co-author of Shadows Then Light and "Make Holy the Bare Life" Theological Reflections on Migration Grounded in Collaboration with Youth Made Illegal by the United States. The story of his clandestine work in an immigrant detention center is told in the award-winning film The Infiltrators (2019).
