Ariana's Page

What issues are most important to you?

Women of color centered work-- race, gender, sexuality and immigration

What kind of social activism do you engage in?

immigration and women of color related

What organizations do you love or work with?

Mujeres Unidas y Activas, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Domestic Workers United, Audre Lorde Project

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?

I have so many that are useful but I still love reading Bell Hooks, Octavia Butler and other women of color writer. I think that TV and film can be useful sometimes, but also really like Lourdes Portillo's work among others.

Career: what do you do or want to do?

Professor

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!

Facilitation, classes and translation

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!

I am quiet, mellow, and love to do good work with great people.

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?

my life, my mother's life and my grandmother's life