Zafiro Patiño immigrated from her native Argentina to the US in 1983 and has resided in the Boston area, Jamaica Plain in particular. She has been actively involved in various social justice initiatives, using her skills in the field of art and culture as tools to educate, to organize, and to fight for basic human rights and against corporate greed. Most recently, the focus of her work has been the struggle for affordable housing—an crisis impacting the working class as a whole but affecting immigrant working families, undocumented or not, with particular virulence.