Presenter Bios

Anthonywash.Rosado

She/Her, He/Him, They/Them

Anthonywash.Rosado is a queer Afro-Boricua storytraveler and cultural curator. As of 2013, he/she/they produced free and public multimedia art salons at Make The Road NY, May Day Space, Starr Bar, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Five Myles Gallery, Rush Arts Philanthropic, and David & Schweitzer. Rosado was Artist in Residence at Chez Bushwick, Movement Research, The Hemispheric Institute, The Loisaida Center, Arts East NY, and El Museo De Los Sures. Rosado published literary work for Arts in Bushwick, Posture Magazine, The Tenth Magazine, and Imagining: A Gibney Journal. As their curatorial practice fellow, Rosado curated “ARCANUM,” the 2020 Queer|Art|Mentorship program’s annual exhibition.

Autumn

She/Her

Autumn (she/her pronouns) is a fat white anti-Zionist Jewish queer woman. She is an organizer based in New England, specifically around interconnected causes like prison abolition, anti-capitalism, disability justice, and fat liberation.

Azariah Liron & Skyler

They/Them & They/Them

Azariah is a transgender, neurogender, polyamorous, kinky, demisexual who is also autistic and has ADHD and C-PTSD. They've been a queer workshop facilitator since 2011, although they currently pay the bills by masquerading as a mild-mannered government employee. Their current focus is on fighting for tenants rights with the Kansas City Tenants Union while building a homestead in Kansas City that will nourish their community. They can be found online at onservantswings.com and on Twitter @onservantswings.

Skyler is a neuroqueer genderqueer Mad autistic librarian, disability justice activist, and community organizer. Their passion is helping to create accessible learning spaces and information resources for people with diverse abilities and identities. They also organize with KC Tenants and are currently working with The Kelsey's Inclusive Design Council to create a guide to accessible housing, because they believe that learning accessibility begins with all learners having access to a safe, supportive home.

Bárbara de Paula

She/Her

Bárbara is a queer Brazilian femme doula, sex educator and bruja-alchemist dedicated to promoting radical DIY/autonomous gynecological and sexual health with the support of plant allies and ancestor wisdom. Bárbara graduated Hampshire in 2012, completed a sex educator certification training at San Francisco Sex Education in 2015 and became a Doula and Placenta specialist through Cornerstone Doula Trainings in 2016. She currently lives in Brazil, where she nurtures her solo project, Ecomadre, incorporating ancestral guidance and indigenous technologies into the movement for radical sexual and gynecological health.

Cyree Jarelle Johnson

He/Him

Cyree Jarelle Johnson is a disabled poet & writer from Piscataway, NJ living in Brooklyn. His first book, SLINGSHOT, was published by Nightboat Books in 2019 and won the Lambda Literary Award in the category of Gay Poetry. He is a current Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow with Poetry Foundation.

Dani Lopez

She/Her

Dani Lopez (she/her) is a born and raised New Yorker, financial aid professional, educator, and nonprofit consultant in the areas of higher education access, with a focus on financial aid, and civic engagement education. As a FLGI (first generation, low income) Latinx alum she made the leap from CUNY to Amherst College as a transfer student and uses her experiences navigating higher education as a student, advisor, and administrator to empower marginalized and non-traditional students to understand bureaucratic systems and advocate for themselves within them. She is a policy wonk and historian at heart, a NUMTOT, and proudly reps the South Bronx! YERRRR!!!!! #CancelStudentDebt

Estrella/x Supernova

they/them

Estrella/x supernova (they/them) is a queer AfroIndigenous artist whose roots extend into Guatemala, Angola, Portugal, & other geographies. Their practice and time are currently pouring into manifesting a space they are envisioning called La Escuela de Cariño, Corporealidad, y Artes Sutiles / The School of Tenderness, Embodied Kinetics, and Alchemical Arts (2020-2025). La Escuela will be a queer club, farm, choreographic innovation incubator, performance venue, and healing center by and for BIQTPOC folks and allies. estrella/x is a creative director, curator, writer, ritual-based performance maker, choreographer, healer. Everything that they do is informed by their relationship to being a survivor, a child of immigrants, and integrating / breaking through inherited trauma. They conjure choreographic containers that illuminate the power of rupture, incremental gesture, clarity, pleasure-the erotic-joy, accountability, and process-orientedness. estrella/x channels, excavates, and shape-shifts through various psychosomatic states revealing the invisible and fecund presences contained within all spaces. https://linktr.ee/randyestrellxreyes

Hayden Kristal

they/them/theirs

Hayden Kristal (preferred pronouns they/them/theirs, but accepts anything said with good intent) is a Deaf, bisexual, Jewish, queer activist and stand-up comedian. Living their life at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities has led Hayden to a career as a professional speaker, exploring the intersections of ability, gender, sexuality, and access – particularly within the spheres of activism and social justice. They have brought their funny, engaging, and interactive workshops and speeches to dozens of conferences, businesses, and schools all across North America including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Vistaprint, and the Connecticut Supreme Court. In the realm of speaking and activism, Hayden has been a TEDx Presenter, a Catalyst Award winner, and a Lavender Graduation commencement speaker; comedically, Hayden was a semifinalist for Stand Up NBC, a finalist for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s Comedy Writing Mentorship, a featured performer at Limestone Comedy festival, and has opened and featured for Maria Bamford.

Ianka Mitchell-Conway

She/Her

Ianka Mitchell-Conway isn't going back to brunch because Biden was elected. Researcher and educator. Tells EMTs "just use any pronouns and check my vitals already!"

JP Delgado Galdamez

She/They/He

JP Delgado Galdamez (she/they/he) is one of the two Community Awareness Associates at The Network/La Red. They speak english and spanish, love makeup, and enjoy conversations about how to dismantle oppression.

Kassandra Neiss

She/Her, They/Them

Kassandra Neiss is a Hampshire College alum ('08F) who works as the Data Activist and Systems Manager at a BIPOC- and womxn-led nonprofit farm in Colorado. As a white person who works in an explicitly BIPOC space, they have developed a personal methodology for being a white accomplice. As a Data Activist she examines oppression and the role of data as tools to dismantle oppressive systems, and to create new ones.

Katy Hutto

She/Her

Katy (she/her) hails from Macon, Georgia but is eagerly learning how to be a New Yorker from Dani. She is a financial aid professional, educator, and advocate with focuses on higher education access, scholarships, and loan forgiveness. As an undergrad at the University of Virginia, Katy was a student organizer and advocate for the FGLI (first generation, low income) community. Katy wrote her thesis on the policy and ethical implications of need- vs. merit-based models of aid and worked in student activities in grad school before becoming a financial aid administrator. She loves every dog she’s ever met and most of the 20,000 memes saved on her phone. #CancelStudentDebt

Kelli Dunham

She/Her

Kelli Dunham is the ex-nun nonbinary queer nurse educator stand up comic and storyteller so common in modern Brooklyn. Kelli is the author of seven hilarious books about non funny subject (like death and puberty) and has appeared on Showtime, the Discovery Channel, the Moth Mainstage and the occasional livestock auction. Kelli spent the summer of 2020 re-creating their Feb 2020 comedy album Not The Gym Teacher in stop motion LEGO animation form; you can find this hilarious absurdity on Kelli's youtube channel.

Maeve Driskill

Maeve/she/they

Maeve Driskill is a fourth-year student at Hampshire College, completing a Division III project in sexuality studies. Maeve's senior thesis is on using media as a tool for sex education, specifically on the topic of kink. Originally from Los Angeles, Maeve has also helped plan two previous queer conferences, and hopes to continue doing similar work after graduation.

Memphis Washington

Memphis

Memphis Washington is a writer, student, reader, and bookstore/cultural worker. Memphis enjoys bookclubs, fighting with TAs, dreaming up expressions of justice, and cooking. Memphis is an environmental earth systems science major at the City College of New York. Memphis is also the host of a bi-monthly LGBTQ+ virtual writing group. Email Memphis at memphissong@gmail.com for more information.