Neta RGV, Rio Grande Valley, TX

Josuè Ramírez (Rawmirez) is an artist living and practicing in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas Mexico border. Rawmire'z current work investigates relationships between personal identity, meaning, and locations particularly the borderlands. He is a Cultural Organizer for an online platform and collective called Neta. Neta is a network of content creators of people who are all from or live in the Rio Grande Valley. Our vision is to inspire and move people to change the world by creating content that amplifies the voices of border residents in the RGV along the Texas-Mexico border.

netargv.com

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Los Angeles, CA

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes. Primarily working in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York City, we are all volunteers producing digital maps, oral history work, film, murals, and community events. Working with a number of community partners and in solidarity with numerous housing movements, we study and visualize new entanglements of global capital, real estate, technocapitalism, and political economy. Our narrative oral history and video work centers the displacement of people and complex social worlds, but also modes of resistance. Maintaining antiracist and feminist analyses as well as decolonial methodology, the project creates tools and disseminates data contributing to collective resistance and movement building.

antievictionmap.com

Rolling Rez Mobile Arts Unit, South Dakota

Rolling Rez Arts is a state-of-the-art mobile arts space, business training center, and mobile bank on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In 2016, Rolling Rez Arts began delivering art, business, retail and banking services that were previously inaccessible to many of the artists and culture bearers who live and work on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The arts space on wheels was years in the making, and is the result of a group of people—from First Peoples Fund, Artspace, Lakota Funds, and Lakota Federal Credit Union staff to nonprofit partners to foundations supporters—coming together to infuse new energy into the creative economy.

Free Bangura, Richmond, VA

Free Egunfemi Bangura is an independent historical strategist and social entrepreneur from Richmond, VA. In 2013, she founded Untold RVA and Untold Tours to inspire non-traditional audiences with bold typography, audio enhanced street art, and urban exploration. 

www.untoldrva.com

IG: untoldrva

Turn the Page Movement, Newark, NJ

Turn The Page is a Queer, Black + Latinx- led collective of theatre/ multimedia artists that arose from the direct need to redistribute wealth into Black owned bookstores given the sudden influx of white readership around “anti racist” literature. We develop Black literature collections alongside our community partners from which our community of readers purchase; additionally, we curate events + conversations around these texts and raise money for our community partners' literacy programs. We’ve partnered with Source of Knowledge - one of only two Black owned bookstores in NJ - and have remained connected with them since. We've invited artists such as theater director Lileana Blain-Cruz, Dominique Morriseau, and Source of Knowledge owners themselves. We have raised over $12,500 for Source of Knowledge to date.

Thank you to Masani, Dexter, and Patrice who have welcomed us into their family. Source of Knowledge in Newark is our home.

https://www.turnthepagemovement.org

IG: @turnthepagemovement

https://www.facebook.com/turnthepagemovement/

Brandi Turner, Sipp Culture, Utica, MS

Brandi Turner is the Co-Founder and Program Manager for the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (MCCP), best known as Sipp Culture in Utica, MS. Mississippi Center for Cultural Production is an organization taking a place-based approach to holistic community development utilizing digital media, agriculture and cultural products to promote the legacy and vision of it’s community. She is also the Managing Director of TWA Consulting, a firm that provides services in creative consulting for organizations looking to strengthen their work in arts and culture. Brandi resides in Utica, MS with her husband Carlton Turner and their three children

Jamila Harris and Courtney Bowles, People's Paper Coop, Philadelphia, PA

The People's Paper Co-op (PPC), is a women led, women focused, women powered art and advocacy project at the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PPC has been active since 2014. Since the spring of 2018, the PPC has organized exhibitions, parades, press conferences, and events to raise awareness and funds for the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund (PCBF)’s Mama's Day Bail Out campaign (raising more than $93,000 through their art sales) while sharing the stories and demands of formerly incarcerated women with tens of thousands of people across Philadelphia and beyond.

peoplespaperco-op.com

@peoplespaperco_op

Natalie Benally, Santa Fe, NM

Natalie Benally is born into the Grey Streaked Ends Clan and born for the Red Running into Water Clan. Her Maternal Grandparents are the Zuni Pueblo Clan and her Paternal Grandparents are the Water’s Edge Clan. As a young Diné girl growing up on the Navajo Reservation, Natalie’s first dance studio was the land she was surrounded by, which taught her movement embedded in cultural re-connection and storytelling. She is also a self-taught hip hop dancer. Natalie attended Fort Lewis College where she earned a BA in theatre - Performing and Directing in 2010 and was a first generation college graduate in her family. She performed dance professionally for 7 years with Dancing Earth Contemporary Dance Company and also led youth workshops for Native youth throughout her time with the company. Natalie performed the lead role of Dory in the Navajo dubbed version of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo and directed/choreographed the production I’m Native And... for Fort Lewis College’s inaugural Indigenous Arts Festival, which was then invited to the Los Angeles Kennedy Center for the Arts’ Regional College Theater Festival in 2019. In addition to performing, she works as the Indigenous Programs Coordinator for Girls Inc. of Santa Fe. She is also co-founding a mixed media storytelling company, Tse’Nato’, where she hopes to continue sharing stories through dance, theater, and film. She was recently awarded the Senator John Pinto Native American Filmmakers Fund in 2020 to direct a short film entitled “Mother’s Day”.

@natbendance