Activism

Aja Monet

ARC Fellow, Poet, Writer, Lyricist, and Activist
Aja Monet was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in Spring 2021.

Born in New York City to parents of Cuban and Jamaican descent and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, Aja Monet Bacquie began writing poems when she was eight or nine years old. While attending Baruch College Campus High School, she performed spoken-word for school talent shows. Around this time, Monet joined Urban Word NYC—a non-profit organization that offers guidance and public platforms to young writers, particularly those of color—and became a part of a community of aspiring urban...

Erin McElroy

Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington
Erin McElroy gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 3, 2020.

Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. McElroy’s work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, digitality, empire, and racial capitalism in the US and in Romania, alongside housing justice organizing, countermapping, and transnational solidarities. This informs the focus of their manuscript, Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies...

Angela Marino

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the UC Berkeley
Angela Marino was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 & 2017 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.

Angela Marino's teaching and research focuses on performance and political cultures of the Southwest, Caribbean, and Latin America. She teaches classes on theater and performance studies theory, methods, and a praxis class called Teatro Lab. She also leads an interdisciplinary research initiative, Critical Perspectives on Democracy and Media (D+M Lab), which supports community-engaged partnerships with student research apprentices in policy analysis and art production. See...

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Multidisciplinary Artist
Cannupa Hanska Luger gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2020.

Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Incorporating ceramics, steel, fiber, video and repurposed materials, Luger activates speculative fiction, engages in land-based actions of repair and practices empathetic response through social collaboration. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an...

Grace Lavery

ARC Fellow, Associate Professor of English Critical Theory and Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley
Grace Lavery was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Grace Lavery is a writer, editor, and academic living in Brooklyn, NY. As an Associate Professor of English, Critical Theory, and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, her research explores the history and theory of aesthetics and interpretation, with particular interests in psychoanalysis, literary realism, and queer and trans cultures. Her...

Ra Malika Imhotep

Black Feminist Writer, Performance Artist, and PhD Candidate of African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley
Ra Malika Imhotep gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Their academic and creative work tends the relationships between Black femininity, Southern vernacular aesthetics, and the performance of labor. They are a co-convener of the embodied spiritual-...

Terra Graziani

Researcher, Tenant Organizer
Terra Graziani was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Terra Graziani is a researcher and tenant organizer whose work focuses on property and personhood. She helps run the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a digital storytelling collective...

David Gilbert

Environmental Anthropologist
David Gilbert was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

David Gilbert is an environmental anthropologist with a special interest in social movements, ecological change, and post-development theory.

David has published on topics ranging from critiques of capitalism to explorations of communities-in-mobilization as their landscapes and climates change.

His book with University of California Press was released in March 2024:...

Shannon Flattery

Artist, Cultural Worker, Activist
Shannon Flattery was an Artist in Residence at the Arts Research Center from 2006 to 2007.

Shannon Flattery is an Artist, Cultural Worker, and Activist based in Santa Fe. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Touchable Stories, an organization that uses art to take community oral history onto the main stage of civic dialogue. Flattery is also the Co-Director of The Bobby Mendes Peace Legacy, an anti-violence program of Touchable Stories, co-directed by peace activist Isaura Mendes. The program was initiated during the Upham's Corner community history/exhibit project 1999-2000....

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poet, Painter, Social Activist, Co-Founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Lawrence Ferlinghetti gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 8, 2017.

Poet, playwright, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York. His father, an Italian immigrant, had shortened the family name upon arrival in America. When Ferlinghetti discovered the lengthier name as an adult, he took it as his own. He had a tumultuous youth, parts of which were spent in France, an orphanage in Chappaqua, New York, and in the mansion of the wealthy Bisland family in Bronxville,...