Clarivel Ruiz (we, us, you) is a child of the African/Indigenous Diaspora, with ancestors from Ayiti Kiskeya (the Dominican Republic and Haiti). As a first-generation immigrant raised in NYC on the ancestral bones/covered shrines of Lenapehoking, our artist work honors Black and Indigenous people whose histories are marginalized, subverted, and consigned to the fringes of memory.

We participated in the Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matters performance group that developed work for Simon Lee's gallery exhibit at the New Museum and the Brooklyn Museum's closing event, *We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–1985*. Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative worked as an Associate Artist for Ebony Golden's *125th Street and Freedom*, showcased through The National Black Theatre. And, in 2020, we conducted a public performance called "Super Human 91," attaching 91 pieces of sugar cane to protest statelessness and immigration rights.

As an Artist-Activist, Educator, and Cultural Barrier, Clarivel supports people in transformative work around cultural responsiveness and unlearning racism. This is evident through founding Dominicans Love Haitians Movement, an arts and culture nonprofit for social justice, and their educational work at New York City's Department of Education Division of Multilingual Learners, Ramapo for Children, and New York University's The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity. Clarivel is also an alum of the Hemispheric Institute's EmergeNYC, Culture Push's Utopian Fellow, a Civic Practice Seminar participant at the Metropolitan Museum, The Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship at CCCADI, a Brooklyn Arts Council awardee, and a Unicorn Fund awardee through the Media Democracy Fund. Clarivel holds an MFA from CUNY, City College.